While most serious listeners already have their favorite set of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, newcomers searching for respectable recordings at a reasonable price would do well to start with these performances by Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Released on two separate discs in the EMI Classics budget line, these ...
This is a more intimate version of John Rutter's Requiem, which uses smaller ensembles, enhancing the sense of reassurance that the music and the text offer. Rutter's music is almost always warmly tonal, built with a simplicity in its textures that descends from the tradition of Vaughan Williams. Here, frequently only one or two instruments are ...
Soprano Nicole Cabell, who won the 2005 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, is a singer to watch. Her debut solo CD on Decca presents her in a wide variety of arias, from "Summertime" to Juliette's "Ah, Je veux vivre." Her voice is bright, and while she is capable of the required pyrotechnics, she has just a little edge that becomes more ...
Any horn player or horn fan who doesn't already know the work of hornist Hermann Baumann is urged to hear this two-disc set. Prior to suffering a stroke in 1993, Baumann was arguably the preeminent German hornist of his generation. With his smooth technique, his graceful tone, and his polished interpretations, Baumann played the way a great singer ...
One inevitably wonders why pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and tenor Ian Bostridge have joined together for this disc of one sonata and four songs by Schubert. Is there a subtle tie between the sonata and the songs? Are the songs' melodies the basis of the one or more movements of the sonata? Are the song's emotional contents somehow connected to those ...
John Stainer's The Crucifixion is England's best-known example of the musical Passion -- inspired equally by the Passion settings of J.S. Bach, the oratorios of Felix Mendelssohn, and traditional Anglican service music. The resemblance to Bach is in the structural alteration between choruses and solo-voice recitatives; Mendelssohn's influence can ...
This is a quiet, chamber performance of a magnificent group of Henry Purcell's sacred works, originally issued on the Columns Classics label in 1997; listener reactions to it will likely depend on how the individual listener feels about the trend toward the downsizing of Baroque performance forces. The Clare College Choir, Cambridge, is a youthful ...
Understandably, there have been few recordings of Benjamin Britten's Canticles. Although the works are both brilliantly written and profoundly affecting, how many performers would dare contend with the performances of the Canticles by Peter Pears, the tenor for whom they were written, with the composer himself at the piano? Not many, as it turns ...
What the listener will think of this CD will depend partly on what he or she thinks of Rutter's musical rendition of sentimentalist religion. It's nicely executed here -- as nicely as on Rutter's own recordings with his handpicked choir -- by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, under Timothy Brown. And the two outer works on the album are ...
What, exactly, do Shostakovich's complete cello works consist of? There's the sonata from 1934 and the two concertos from 1959 and 1966, of course. But should one count the single-movement Moderato presumably composed in 1934 but only discovered posthumously half a century later? And should one count a transcription of the viola sonata from 1975 ...
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