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JOHANN SIMON MAYR
Mayr: Messa solenne in D minor Anna Feith, Bogna Bernagiewicz, Freya Apffelstaedt, Markus Schäfer, Fang Zhi, Niklas Mallmann / Simon Mayr Chorus, Concerto de Bassus, Franz Hauk [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Johann Simon Mayr's music stands on the cusp between the Classical and Romantic eras. The expressive lyrical qualities in his religious music reflects a career in which he composed nearly 70 operas. |
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SCHNITTKE / SHCHEDRIN / RIHM
Elusive Affinity Anna Gourari [ ECM New Series / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] In this imaginatively shaped and sensitively played album - her third for ECM - Russian pianist Anna Gourari explores musical connections and influences extending across the arts. Three suites of contemporary music are heard here. Alfred Schnittke's... |
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Anna Gourari
Various: Canto Oscuro [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] |
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Anna Gourari, OSI Lugano, Markus Poschner
Hindemith / Schnittke [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Jun/2024 ] After three acclaimed solo piano programmes for the label, here Anna Gourari widens the instrumental spectrum with the Lugano-based Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana under Markus Poschner's direction in striking performances of Alfred Schnittke's... |
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BRAHMS
Late Piano Pieces Op 116-119 Anna Gourari (piano) [ Berlin Classics / CD - released 15/Mar/2010 ] Gourari plays the late piano pieces of Brahms, including Fantasies and the Intermezzi. This is the Russian pianist's debut on the Berlin Classics label. She has been praised for her "almost mystical piano playing". |
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HENRYK GORECKI
Antoni Wit Conducts Henryk Górecki [Incls Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) ] Anna Górecka (piano) Carol Wincenc (flute) Zofia Kilanowicz (soprano) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2014 ] "What impresses me most about this performance is its sprituality" - Gramophone on the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs |
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ARCANGELO CORELLI
Corelli: Concerti Grossi Op. 6 Nos. 7-12 Anna Holbling (violin) / Quido Holbling (violin) / Ludovit Kanta (cello) / Daniela Ruso (harpsichord) / Capella Istropolitana / Jaroslav Krecek [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Aug/2010 ] "Naxos's sound is excellent, and the disc's warmly recommended." Fanfare |
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Anna & Ines Walachowski
Various: Piano Duos [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 17/May/2010 ] |
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W. A. MOZART
Sonata for two pianos in D KV448 (with Rachmaninov - Six Morceaux, etc) Anna & Ines Walachowski (pianos) [ Berlin Classics Gold / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] "The detail that Anna and Ines Walachowski discover in Mozart's D major Sonata is astonishing. The criss-crossing play of scales in its first movement is dizzying while a bubbling Rondo is graced by immaculate passage work and coy rubato." (William... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Mass in A flat D.678 (with Mendelssohn - Psalm 42) Anna Korondi (soprano) Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano) Andreas Karasiak (tenor) / RIAS-Kammerchor / Orchestre des Champs elysaes / Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] The Mass in A flat is one of the most lyrical that Schubert composed. It is also one of the most ambitious (Schubert noted at the top of his manuscript 'missa solemnis'), in terms of its instrumental forces, as well as the number and arrangement of... |
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VILLA-LOBOS
Floresta do Amazonas Anna Korondi (soprano) / Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra / Sao Paulo Symphony Choir / John Neschling [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "It's a typical Villa-Lobos patchwork, including a male chorus chanting in an Amazonian language, extravagant vocalise for the soprano solo and lushly romantic textures straight out of Hollywood...this recording...reveals the score in all its... |
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ANTONIN DVOARK
Dvořák: Spirit of Bohemia / String Quartet No. 4 Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic (viola), Jens Peter Maintz (cello), Stepan Simonian (piano), Fine Arts Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] Antonín Dvořák's music, imbued with the spirit of Bohemia, reflects a love of his native land. His String Sextet, written in the distinctive style which brought him international fame, was an immediate success at its premiere. Composed just eight... |
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HOWARD / RICHTER / ARAKELYAN / ZIMMER / PRICE / ESENVALDS
Anna Lapwood - Luna Anna Lapwood (organ) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] "The organist, choir leader and TikTok star's wonderful new album provides a compelling showcase for the organ's ability both to be barely there and to swallow a concert hall whole...The results are illuminating and inspiring." The Sunday Times |
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MAURICE RAVEL / BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Ravel/Britten: Images: Organ Of Ely Cathedral Anna Lapwood (organ) [ Signum / CD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Spatial Audio |
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GJEILO / ZIMMER / PORTMAN / ANTOGNINI / DYLAN / DURUFLE / etc
Anna Lapwood - Firedove Anna Lapwood (organ), with Jess Gillam (saxophone), The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge [ Sony Classical / CD - released 30/May/2025 ] Anna Lapwood, renowned for introducing the organ to new fans through viral TikTok videos, high-profile collaborations and sold-out live concerts, takes flight with a remarkable new album. On Firedove, audiences will hear her spread her wings in a... |
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MAHLER
Symphony No. 3 (recorded at the Lucerne Festival, 2007) BLU-RAY Anna Larsson (alto) / Arnold Schoenberg Choir / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Music Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jan/2010 ] G : - "This is easily the greatest, most concentrated, most moving and beautifully played performance of this massive work I've yet encountered" (Keith). This DVD was a Staff Pick DVD for 2010. |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (recorded at the Lucerne Festival, 2007) Anna Larsson (alto) / Arnold Schoenberg Choir / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Music DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] G - "One of the greatest Mahlerians alive today, Abbado conducting Mahler's Third Symphony with his own Lucerne Festival Orchestra is not to be missed...Anna Larsson is ethereal in the fourth movement's Nietzschian text, the finale a sublimely... |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 Anna Larsson (mezzo-soprano) Roland Pöntinen (piano), Arctic Philharmonic, Christian Lindberg [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] "This is a fine disc. The musicianship is of the highest order and I think Christian Lindberg is a very convincing guide to these scores." MusicWeb |
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ELGAR
The Apostles (complete oratorio) Anna Leese (sop) Louise Poole (mezzo) Andrew Staples (ten) Colin Campbell (bar) / Canterbury Choral Society / Philharmonia Orchestra / Richard Cooke [ Quartz / 2 CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] Elgar embarked seriously on The Apostles in 1902 and the first performance took place in October of the following year at the Birmingham Festival conducted by Hans Richter. |
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Anna Lucia Richter, Ammiel Bushakevitz
Brahms Lieder [ Pentatone / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] |