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KALEVI AHO
Aho: Oboe Concerto & Sonata Piet van Bockstal (oboe) / Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins / Yutaka Oya (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] "There's a chamber-like intensity to this concerto - a heightened instrumental clarity if you will - and oboist Piet Van Bockstal is a gentle and evocative soloist throughout...Fine music and musicianship, faithfully caught; what BIS does best." (Mus |
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Pieter Van Dijk
Scheidemann: Organ Works Vol.1 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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J.S. BACH
Concertos for 2,3 and 4 harpsichords Pieter-Jan Belder, Menno van Delft, Siebe Henstra, Vincent van Laar (harpsichords) / Musica Amphion / Pieter-Jan Belder [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] Sowing machines or musical instruments? Today, in the era of (copies of) period instruments harpsichords can not be mistaken for machines any more. Not even when four of them are playing simultaneously. |
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CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Mors et Vita Barbara Hendricks (sop) Nadine Denize (mezzo) John Aler (ten) José van Dam (bass-bar) / Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] "Plasson's remains a serviceable rendition of Gounod's grandiose conspectus of human spiritual experience." BBC Music |
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Jacques Of
Les Contes D´Hoffmann Plácido Domingo, Catherine Malfitano, Ann Murray, José van Dam, Rémy Corazza, Jocelyne Taillon, Gérard Friedmann, Peter [ ORFEO / 3 CD - released 4/Sep/2009 ] |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1 Quatuor Van Kuijk [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Oct/2022 ] The Quatuor Van Kuijk celebrates the tenth anniversary of its creation and its sixth recording for Alpha with a complete set of Mendelssohn's quartets, of which this is the first volume: it opens with the Quartet op.13, composed in 1827, when he was... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: String Quartets Quatuor Van Kuijk [ Alpha / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] Despite its Dutch-sounding name, the quartet founded by Nicolas Van Kuijk in 2012 is French. But its short career is already international. The Quatuor Van Kuijk won First Prize in the 2015 Wigmore Hall Competition and First Prize and Audience Award... |
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DEBUSSY / RAVEL / CHAUSSON
String Quartets Quatuor Van Kuijk, Kate Lindsey, Aphonse Cemin [ Alpha / CD - released 17/Sep/2017 ] releaseseptember2017Quatuor Van KuijKKatelindsey*alphonse Cemin*- alpha 295 -The first disc of the quartet founded by Nicolas Van Kuijk, a programme of Mozart, was awarded a 'Choc de Classica' and 'Diapason Découverte'. Now they return to their roots... |
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Ralph Van Raat
Lindberg: Complete Piano Music [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] |
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Ralph Van Raat
Works By Adams/Rzewski/Tavener [ Naxos / 5 CD - released 7/Sep/2009 ] |
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JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Complete Piano Music Ralph van Raat (piano) with Maarten van Veen (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] The works on this disc span his entire career to date, and illustrate his many different styles of writing for the piano. Phrygian Gates and China Gates - "gate" here referring to a type of electronic switch - could be regarded as his first "minimal"... |
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HANS OTTE
Das Buch der Klänge, 12 pieces for piano Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] "Ralph van Raat's sensitive and technically refined performance has been captured very nicely on this CD, and while Hans Otte's own recording may ultimately be preferable I can't imagine anyone having any complaints about this disc at budget price.... |
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CHARLES KOECHLIN
Les Heures Pesanes Op. 65 Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] A pupil of Massenet and Fauré, the prolific French composer and teacher Charles Koechlin expanded traditional harmonies and compositional techniques and was much admired by his contemporaries. Les heures persanes was inspired by Vers Ispahan, Pierre... |
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JOHN TAVENER
Piano Works (Incls 'Ypakoe' & 'Pratirupa') Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] John Tavener's piano works are less well known than his large orchestral, vocal and choral works, yet at times seem to mark his stylistic and spiritual development on a more personal level. |
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BOULEZ / DEBUSSY / MESSIAEN / RAVEL
Rare French Piano Music Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2020 ] This album of French piano rarities features seldom-heard and recently discovered works by composers who had an influence on Pierre Boulez, as well as the premiere recording of Boulez's Prélude, Toccata et Scherzo. |
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TAN DUN
Tan Dun: Eight Memories in watercolor / C-A-G-E-(In Memory of John Cage) / Film Music Sonata / etc Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jun/2022 ] |
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GAVIN BRYARS
Piano Concerto (The Solway Canal) / After Handel’s Vesper / Ramble on Cortona Ralph van Raat (piano) / Cappella Amsterdam / Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic / Otto Tausk [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] "It's in the nature of Bryars's solo piano music that it flows along in gently timeless way...it also severally challenges a performer's ability to keep the listener's attention suitably gripped. In After Handel's Vesper's and Ramble on Cortona,... |
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OLIVIER MESSIAEN / CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Ralph van Raat & Håkon Austbø play Messiaen & Debussy Ralph van Raat (piano I) & Håkon Austbø (piano II) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "Their approach, characterised by fierce dynamic contrasts, jagged phrasing and explosive fortissimos, suits Messiaen's highly coloured extremes of rapture and religious awe..." |
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LABORDE / BERTON / TRIAL / GLUCK / GOSSEC / GRETRY:
Legros, haute-contre de Gluck Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor), A Nocte Temporis [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2023 ] "...He is at his best as the pastoral lover, when the luminous timbre of his high notes glows amid the flutes and reeds of A Nocte Temporis, the superb period-instrument band that he founded and expertly directs." BBC Music |
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Concert Arias Reinoud Van Mechelen, A Nocte Temporis [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Fresh from his triumphant onstage success in Paris, Berlin and Brussels singing leading roles in the operas of Rameau and Mozart, tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen presents his long-awaited first Mozart recording. Together with his ensemble A Nocte... |