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HUMMEL
L'Enchantment d'Oberon, Op. 116 / Piano Concerto in A major / etc London Mozart Players, Howard Shelley (piano & conductor) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] 'Shelley's sparkling playing is winning… As ever in this Chandos series, the first-rate recording is clear and vivid, warm and full.' Gramophone.. |
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JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Ballet Suites / Twelve Waltzes and Coda London Mozart Players, Howard Shelley (piano/director) [ Chandos / CD - released 25/Apr/2007 ] "Howard Shelley's light touch, fresh and colourful orchestral playing, and excellent recording, make this very well worth hearing on its own account, not simply as a rediscovered rarity." BBC Music |
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JOHANN CHRISTIAN CANNABICH
Symphonies London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Contemporaries of Mozart / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] 'As in the previous issues of Chandos' Contemporaries of Mozart series, Matthias Bamert and the London Mozart Players provide polished and stylish performances.' BBC Music Magazine |
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LEOPOLD MOZART
Symphonies London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Contemporaries of Mozart / CD - released 20/Nov/2008 ] The symphonies are among the chief works by which Leopold established his compositional popularity, and they take pride of place. They far outstrip in quality, to say nothing of quantity, the symphonies of his Salzburg contemporaries. |
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JOSEF MYSLIVECEK
Symphonies London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Contemporaries of Mozart / CD - released 7/Jun/2004 ] This latest release in Chandos' Contemporaries of Mozart series features music by Josef Myslivecek. |
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JOHN MARSH
Marsh: Symphonies London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Contemporaries of Mozart / CD - released 20/May/2011 ] "As always in this series, the London Mozart Players under Matthias Bamert provide impeccably stylish performances." (BBC Music) |
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BOCCHERINI
Symphonies Nos 3, 8 & 21 London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Contemporaries of Mozart / CD - released 10/Jun/2010 ] Luigi Boccherini was born in 1743 in Lucca. He was to become one of the greatest cellists of his time, and travelled all over Europe giving virtuoso performances. His compositional genius only fully emerged when he took up permanent residence at the... |
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SALIERI
Symphonies, Overtures and Variations London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Feb/2001 ] '…this release is commended by committed, clean, and lively playing, not to mention crisp articulation and nicely sprung rhythms.' Fanfare |
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WRANITZKY
Symphony in D major, Op. 36 / Symphony in C min Op 11 / etc London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 29/Jan/2002 ] 'I cannot imagine better advocacy for it that this recording...'-Gramophone |
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WESLEY
Symphonies London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Contemporaries of Mozart / CD - released 20/May/2000 ] 'The performances brim with joie de vivre, and are further commended by the London Mozart Player's focussed, accurate and committed readings'. (Fanfare) |
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HOFFMEISTER
Symphonies London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Dec/2005 ] "As in the preceeding instalments of Chandos's 'Contemporaries of Mozart' series, Matthias Bamert and the London Mozart Players produce splendidly alert and stylish performances. No one interested in the byways of the late 18th century repertoire... |
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ANTONIO SALIERI
Overtures and Ballet Music Volume 2 Mannheim Mozart Orchestra / Thomas Fey (conductor) [ Hanssler Classic / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] "Salieri was no pushover. Neither is Fey who, as usual, couples individuality in interpretation to dynamic, sizzling conducting and whiplash precision of ensemble...[His] grasp of extremes is a fearless re-creation of Salieri's creative invention.... |
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JOHN FIELD
Field: Piano Concertos (complete) Maceal O'Rourke (piano) / London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert (with David Juriz, violin, & Julia Desbruslais, cello) [ Chandos Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "O'Rourke seems to have adopted the style of Field himself; he has a lovely touch and flow." (American Record Guide) |
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W. A. MOZART
Symphonies 40 & 41 Mozart Akademie Amsterdam / Jaap ter Linden [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] Mozart Academie Amsterdam, Jaap ter Linden |
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W.A. MOZART
Mozart Opera for Flute & String Trio Mozart Ensemble of the Vienna Volksoper [ Nimbus / CD - released 12/Sep/2007 ] Unusual arrangements of Mozart operatic arias and overtures. |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Chamber Music Mozart Piano Quartet [ MDG / CD - released 15/Feb/2006 ] Richard Strauss's compositions for piano quartet offer highly interesting documentation of the gradual growth of one of the artistic giants of his century. |
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SAINT-SAENS
Piano Quartets Mozart Piano Quartet [ MDG / CD - released 10/Feb/2005 ] "The Mozart Piano Quartet provide these works with enthusiastic advocacy and MDG's sound is a model of clarity and natural balance…." Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice October 2009 |
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W. A. MOZART
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (complete opera recorded in 1985) Yvonne Kenny / Lillian Watson / Peter Schrier / Mozart-Orchester und Chor des Opernhauses Zürich, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec / Warner Classics The Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 4/May/2009 ] "From the first bars of the Overture you will hear a sound like none on any other version of this opera … This set reawakened my enthusiasm for a piece I thought I had heard a few times too often." Gramophone |
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PERGOLESI
Stabat Mater / Salve Regina / Violin Concerto in B flat major Rachel Harnisch, Sara Mingardo & Julia Kleiter, Giuliano Carmignola (violin) / Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] "The Stabat Mater is the main work, in a striking performance that manages to be at once devotional and operatic. There's a fiery austerity in the conducting and string playing...The real treat here is the Violin Concerto, played with casual sensual |