Recordings

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Back in 2013 Giovanni Antonini embarked on Haydn 2032, where, in time for the 300th anniversary of his birth, he would record with the two orchestras he is most associated with...
Víkingur Ólafsson - Opus 109
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Víkingur Ólafsson usually creates interesting programmes and isn’t afraid of using an artistic licence in terms of tempo, dynamics etc., as in the first movement of Beethoven’s Op. 90 where...
Schubert 4 Hands. Leif Oves Andsnes and Bernard Chamayou.
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Leif Oves Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou are very different players and given the latter isn’t usually known for his emotional depth, vital in late Schubert, one could, perhaps be forgiven...
Rachmaninoff: The Bells - Elgar: Falstaff
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These masterworks, which were composed in 1915, feature orchestral palettes that concentrate on clarity and subtlety as opposed to full-blown Romantic heft and there is no sense of incongruity when...
Brahms Tragic Overture in D minor, Op. 81 Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Kirill Petrenko
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To-date Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic have recorded little of the German symphonic tradition so many associate with the orchestra, so this looked like an interesting addition to their...
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Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances have fared well on disc with classic performances from, amongst others, Kubelik, Sejna and Talich. Unsurprisingly the Czech Philharmonic has recorded them on numerous occasions, on this,...
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As well as being a performer and critic, the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) wrote a considerable body of conventional diatonic music in a wide variety of idioms. In Platero...
Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht, Chamber Symphony No. 1, Die Jakobsleiter, Variations for Orchestra & Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36
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This set features pieces that represent Arnold Schoenberg at different points in his career. It starts with that orgy of late-romantic chromaticism Verklarte Nacht in the 1943 arrangement, scored for...
Toscanini in Pasadena
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In April and May 1950 Toscanini and the NBC SO undertook a US tour where they played 22 concerts, including two in Pasadena’s Civic Auditorium.    The first opens with a...
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This, the first solo album Nicky Spence has recorded with his husband Dylan Perez, features Czech and Hungarian composers and is better than his Janacek recital, where the two high...