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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Concertos Alexandre Kantorow (piano) Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Aug/2015 ] "it is hard not to be impressed by Kantorow in the concertos, but the Malédiction is why you should buy the disc." Gramophone |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / etc Alexandre Kantorow (piano) / Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] "...this disc completes a Saint-Saëns piano concerto set that has few peers and none that are better." Five Stars BBC Music Concerto Choice July 2022 |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos 3-5 Alexandre Kantorow (piano) / Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow (conductor) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2019 ] "It is no hardship to review yet another Saint-Saëns piano concerto recording when it is as good as this." Gramophone June 2019 |
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ERIC SATIE
Erik Satie (LP) Alexandre Tharaud (piano), with Eric Le Sage (piano), Juliette (voice), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean Delescluse (tenor) [ Harmonia Mundi / LP - released 29/Sep/2023 ] "My aim in this disc has been to offer the richest possible panorama of Satie's piano music, spanning his whole lifetime. Immersed in the world of Satie, we were touched, and often deeply moved by the trust he shows in his interpreters." A. Tharaud. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Nos 3 & 5 Geister (with Hummel-Piano Trio No 4) Andreas Staier (pianoforte) Daniel Sepec (violin) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Oct/2007 ] "Anyone who has heard and admired Andreas Staier's bracing performances of 18th- and early-19th-century solo piano works, on a variety of historically appropriate keyboards, will be at home with this highly charged chamber-music playing." (The Guardian) |
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ANTONIO DVORAK
Cello Concerto in B minor (with works by Reger & Francaix) Anja Thauer (cello), with Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Zdeněk Mácal & Jean Françaix (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2015 ] In the year 2015 we should have been celebrating the seventieth birthdays of two uniquely talented women cellists who were both born in 1945, but instead we have been remembering a more tragic coincidence: in 1973, multiple sclerosis forced the... |
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JEAN GILLES
Messe des Morts [Requiem] Anne-Marie Rodde, Jean Nirouet, Martyn Hill, Peter Kooy / Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] 'This is in short a performance with the carefully moulded contours, sensitively judged sonic qualities and sheer spiritual presence that we have come to recognize over the years as true Herreweghe characteristics.' Gramophone |
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LINDBERG / HARTMANN / FARJOT
Contemporary Clarinet Concertos Arnaud Thorette, Christian Arming, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Quatuor Danel, Jean-Luc Votano, Antoine Pierlot [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Jean-Luc Votano, principal clarinet of the Liège Royal Philharmonic (OPRL), here presents a workby a 'classic' figure of the twentieth century, the Kammerkonzert for clarinet, string quartet and string orchestra of Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1930), along... |
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BAPTISTE TROTIGNON
Anima Orchestre Victor Hugo, Jean-François Verdier [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] An eminent ambassador of the 'French touch' in jazz and winner of many awards (Django-Reinhardt, Victoires du Jazz, Django d'Or, SACEM jazz awards) - Baptiste Trotignon has been composing for symphony orchestras and classical musicians for several... |
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LORENZO PALOMO
Palomo - Cantos Del Alma / Sinfonía a Granada María Bayo (soprano), José Luis Estellés (clarinet), Vicente Coves (guitar) & Luis García Montero / City of Granada Orchestra, Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 31/Mar/2008 ] His Cantos del alma (Songs of the Soul) are settings of four poems by Juan Ramón Jiménez, "a composition in which voice, clarinet and orchestra ... establish a poetic dialogue, both intimate and idyllic". Palomo's Sinfonía a Granada (Granada... |
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MANUEL de FALLA
Works for Stage and Concert Hall [incls 'Nights in the gardens of Spain'] Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] "Often spacious and dark, the performance reaches past its starlit, balmy surfaces to find the ache and stoicism of Spanish history" BBC Music Magazine Disc of the month - March 2012 |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Sextets Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - CHAMBER |
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HERBERT HOWELLS
Piano Quartet in A minor / Fantasy String Quartet / Rhapsodic Quintet Bernard Roberts (piano) Nona Lidell (violin) Marilyn Taylor (violin) Jean Stewart (viola) Bernard Richards (cello) Thea King (clarinet) [ Lyrita / CD - released 19/Jan/2008 ] Herbert Howells was the last of the great English Romantics whose tongues were loosened by folksong. He was born in Gloucestershire in 1892 and what Marion M. Scott wrote of Ivor Gurney: "his education may be said to have begun with the beauty he saw... |
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FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Violin Concerto / Piano Concerto / Eventyr / A Song Before Sunrise Betty Beecham (Piano) / Jean Pougnet (Violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] Sir Thomas Beecham's almost single-handed promotion of the music of Delius to international acceptance through his own personal standing and his conducting genius, besides being among the singular feats of the twentieth century, remains unrivalled in... |
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BALBASTRE / COUPERIN / DANDRIEU / MARCHAND / etc
Deux Siècles d'Orgue: Two centuries of organ music at the Chapelle Royale, Versailles François Espinasse (organ) Frédéric Desenclos (organ) Jean-Baptiste Robin (organ) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] The recently restored organ of the chapel bears witness to the glorious past of this historic site and the magnificence of the royal liturgy. This project, entrusted to the four resident organists of the instrument, presents a rich panorama of the... |
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BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / CHOPIN / SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN
"Romantic" (10 CD boxset) Brigitte Engerer, Bernarda Fink, Werner Güra, Philippe Herreweghe, Régis Pasquier, Roland Pidoux, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Alain Planès, and many more [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 10 CD Box Set - released 25/Oct/2011 ] An amazing 10-CD bargain boxes from Harmonia Mundi of classic recordings from their catalogue. We know from experience that these will sell out quickly: incredible price, limited edition, while stocks last. |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: String Quartet / Piano trio / etc Brodsky Quartet with Sioned williams (harp) & Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "For those of us who recall the Brodskys as "Cool Britannia" clotheshorses, their 40th anniversary this year - well, for two of the line-up - comes as a shock. Less surprising is their compelling account, forthright and dramatic, rather than hazily... |
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BERLIOZ
La Mort d'Ophalie (Songs for chorus) Bruce Brewer (tenor) Jean-Philippe Courtis (baritone) Noel Lee (piano) / Choeur de chambre de l'Orchestre National de Lyon / Bernard Tatu [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 16/Jun/2003 ] Pure France - All the songs of Berlioz written for soloists, chorus and orchestra |
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Le Siege De Corinthe (complete opera) Lorenzo Regazzo, Majella Cullagh / Camerata Bach Choir, Poznań & Virtuosi Brunensis, Jean-Luc Tingaud [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] Rossini adapted his own Italian opera of 1820, Maometto, for the Parisian stage under the title of Le Siège de Corinthe. As Rossini's original work had already absorbed distinctive French characteristics such as heroic arias, and characterisation... |