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MENDELSSOHN
Songs and Duets Vol 4 Eugene Asti (piano) / Katherine Broderick / Stephan Loges / Finnur Bjarnason / Anna Grevelius / Hannah Morrison [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] Mendelssohn seems to have finally hit the big league in this bicentenary year of his birth. Critical reappraisals of his music have confirmed this somewhat elusive composer as an important Romantic figure, and probably the greatest child prodigy of... |
BRITTEN
Before Life & after Sonnets of J. Donne op.35 / Winter Words op.52 / etc Mark Padmore (tenor) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "The evocative performance by Padmore and Vignoles captures that sense of longing particularly well." Gramophone Magazine: Editor's Choice - September 2009 |
DURUFLE
Requiem (with Grunenwald - Di Profundis) Sarah Connolly (Mezzo) Christopher Maltman (baritone) with Robert Cohen (cello) / Vasari Singers [ Signum / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "..delivered with consummate attention to detail by an extraordinarily able choir and an astonishingly perceptive organist, is a performance not just of Technicolor magic but some emotional depth too." Gramophone Magazine, August 2009 |
KORNGOLD
Songs Sarah Connolly (mezzo) William Dazeley (baritone) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - July 2009 |