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What
the Magazines and the critics say |
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Peter
Sculthorpe 'This is a life-affirming
disc.' |
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Richard
Addinsell '...this is a fine,
beautifully played and recorded celebration of Addinsell's underrated
contribution to British Film.' |
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Dietrich Buxtehude '...I can think
of no performance that has served them more affectionately and with
such sensibility to Buxtehude's warmly communicative harmonies.' 'A sound choice
of beautiful voices and elegant playing marks a distinguished issue.' |
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William
Herschel 'Matthias Bamert's
lively direction and the higly professional playing of the London Mozart
Players provide Herschel with the best imaginable advocacy...'
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George Dyson 'All four soloists
are in superb voice, each of them strong, firm and characterful; and
both choruses sing with fresh, incandescent tone... the result will
delight all devotees of the English choral tradition.' |
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Johannes
Verhulst 'Matthias Bamert
directs what seems a wholly convinced, warmly majestic performance.'
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Older
Reviews
last updated April 2003 |
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Tobias
Picker 'This disc's primary
attraction, though, is its inclusion of two newer, more reflective works...
[which] prompt recognition that Picker's recent music displays a distinctively
soulful style that is one of the glories of the current music scene'
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Richard
Addinsell 'It's by no means
just nostalgia, of course, that makes Addinsell's film music well worth
exploring and this generously-filled CD is undoubtedly the best single-CD
selection now available.' |
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Niels Gade 'Splendidly played
and evocative recordings to finish Hogwood's fine Gade cycle.' |
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Tsar
of Instruments 'Iain Quinn is
outstanding and his skilful, polished use of the Winchester Cathedral
organ makes this one of the best CDs you'll hear of that instrument'
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Per Nørgård 'The Danish National
Radio Choir's performance is most compelling, captured in superb sound.'
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Johannes
Verhulst 'A large scale
Mendelssohn-style mass receives a delightful performance from native
performers.' |
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Charles
Gounod '...an exquisite
Marguerite from Mary Plazas, who, while singing in English, demonstrates
a convincing sense of French style. It's an elegant and immaculate portrayal'
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Benjamin
Britten 'But, although
any Britten opera at budget price is worth investigating, it is the
Chandos recording that gives the work more dramatic strength and psychological
depth, it seems more palatable.' |
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Vergine Bella '...the Italian
diction is good (especially for stranieri!!!) the voices very well-balanced
and the voice and lute songs really lively, an essential characteristic
necessary for a good rendering of this special and lovely renaissance
repertoire.' |
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Lennox
Berkeley Michael
Berkeley 'Performances and
presentation are exemplary: this music seems right up Richard Hickox's
street, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales is ideally recorded in the
Brangwyn Hall and Anthony Burton's notes are a sensible blend of anecdote
and analysis' |
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Nikolay Miaskovsky 'This is, in short,
one of the finest recordings to come my way in a good while, almost
every bar glows with an unforced, deeply felt emotion.' |
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Appassionato 'This recital forms
a veritable showcase for Lydia Mordkovitch's artistry - 'appassionato'
indeed... Ralph Couzens' immaculately balanced and beguilingly atmospheric
production captures Mordkovitch's burnished tone quality to perfection.
Excellent notes from Calum MacDonald round out a fine release.'
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel
'...everything
about it arouses keen hopes that Hickox and Collegium Musicum 90 will
soon complete the series with Hummel's other three masses.' |
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Viennese Operatic Arias 'In any language
it's a highly recommendable collection.' |
