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VIVALDI
Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione - 12 concerti, Op. 8 The Avison Ensemble, Pavlo Beznosiuk [ Linn Records SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] "I've always admired the suavity and subtle imaginative colouring of the Avison Ensemble's performances...Here Vivaldi's grosser programmatic intentions are made the subject of speculation rather than plain realisation" (Gramophone) |
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CORELLI
Violin Sonatas Op 5 The Avison Ensemble, Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin) [ Linn Records SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 15/Dec/2012 ] 'Delightfully amiable, effervescent performances of all twelve concertos recorded with an enjoyable level of warmth and detail. I've enjoyed these a lot.' BBC Radio 3 CD Review |
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CORELLI
Violin Sonatas Op 6 The Avison Ensemble, Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin) [ Linn Records SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 15/Dec/2012 ] "the sense of ensemble is faultless and, in the faster movements, breathtakingly impressive." (Gramophone) |
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ARCANGELO CORELLI
Corelli: Opus 1 & 3: Church Sonatas The Avison Ensemble [ Linn Records SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 21/Apr/2014 ] "The players understand every strain of these simple, direct but perfect ideas. I hope that I have encouraged you to search out this wonderful recording and others in the Avison/Linn Corelli Edition." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb July 2014) |
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CORELLI
Opus 2 & 4: Chamber Sonatas The Avison Ensemble [ Linn Records SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 9/Oct/2013 ] Popular since their publication, Corelli's two sets of chamber sonatas are a pinnacle of Baroque Italian instrumental music. They demonstrate a superior level of craftsmanship; they are of the highest quality, exquisitely refined and a good... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
The Creation Amanda Forsythe, Keith Jameson, Kevin Deas / Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman [ Linn SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 9/Jul/2012 ] "Pearlman adopts near-ideal tempi for every number, and his choir and period band - medium forces for a work the composer conducted with up to 200 - are excellent." (Sunday Times) |
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JAMES MACMILLAN
Alpha & Omega: Choral Music by James MacMillan Cappella Nova, Alan Tavener & James MacMillan, with Madeleine Mitchell (violin) [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Dec/2013 ] After its 'undeniably beautiful' (The Financial Times) Linn debut and its 'excellently performed' (Fanfare) follow up, Cappella Nova releases a third volume of choral works by the leading contemporary composer, James MacMillan. Of the eight works... |
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Carol Kidd
All My Tomorrows [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Feb/2004 ] |
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Carol Kidd
Carol Kidd [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Feb/2004 ] |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Violin Concertos Cecilia Bernardini (violin), Huw Daniel (violin), Alfredo Bernardini (oboe) / Dunedin Consort, John Butt [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] "This is as good a way as any to get to know these wonderful concertos and a worthy successor to John Butt's earlier recordings of Bach with the Dunedin Consort." (MusicWeb March 2016) |
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Claire Martin
Too Darn Hot [ Linn SACD / SACD - released 6/Sep/2004 ] This SACD Multichannel Hybrid can be played with a SACD player or a normal CD player. Fantastic sound quality! |
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Claire Martin & Richard Rodney Bennett
Witchcraft [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/May/2011 ] The unstoppable duo of Martin and Bennett - a partnership polished over two decades - present 'Witchcraft', a sparkling celebration of the music of Cy Coleman. |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV1046-1051 (complete) Dunedin Consort, John Butt [ Linn SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 26/Sep/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
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W. A. MOZART
Opera Arias & Overtures Elizabeth Watts (Soprano) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Christian Baldini [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2015 ] The Scottish Chamber Orchestra has established impeccable Mozartian credentials with its award-winning discography, to which Mozart: Opera Arias and Overtures is the latest addition. |
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BRUNO WALTER / RICHARD STRAUSS / JOSEPH MARX
Lieder Recital Emma Bell (soprano) / Andrew West (piano) [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Dec/2005 ] "This is an intensely attractive and thoughtfully constructed recital." (MusicWeb Sept 2005) |
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GRIEG / MENDELSSOHN / SCHUMANN / PILSS
The Romantic Trumpet Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet) & Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano) [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 7/Mar/2011 ] Renowned for his outstanding technical and musical ability, as well as his unique re-workings of chamber repertoire, this latest album from Jonathan Freeman-Attwood introduces some fresh and unusual arrangements of well-known Romantic music for the... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
The London Sonatas Gottlieb Wallisch (piano) [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Jun/2014 ] Famed for his clarity of line and purity of tone, Gottlieb Wallisch moves from Mozart to his contemporary Haydn for his fourth recording with Linn. |
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W. A. MOZART
Paris and Vienna Gottlieb Wallisch (piano) [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Jul/2012 ] "Wallisch's reading contain many attractive qualities: immaculately clean fingerwork, fine phrase-characterisation and sense of balance. But this is, of course, much-recorded repertory..the CD is a pleasurable play-through, and recommendable as such" |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Symphonies Nos. 31, 70 & 101 Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Robin Ticciati [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2015 ] Ticciati's approach takes the best elements of authenticity present in period performances, but with the dynamic range, space, colour and life that modern performance practice brings. |
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SCHUBERT
Winterreise Peter Harvey (baritone) Gary Cooper (piano) [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 8/Nov/2010 ] "a performance which arouses sympathy from the start and never forfeits that rare and special kind of interest which is brought into play only with a sense of complete and urgent identification between the composition and its performers." (Gramophone |