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Harp recitals are almost bound to be appealing, such is the instrument’s seductiveness, but this one has substance, too. — More…
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Katherine Bryan plays Flute Concertos by Christopher Rouse and Jacques Ibert
Katherine Bryan (flute)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jac van Steen
Bryan certainly has complete mastery of the [Rouse's] technical and expressive demands, as she does in Ibert's Concerto of 1933...Her playing of Debussy's Syrinx, the ne plus ultra of the solo... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2013, Editor's Choice
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Apart from his nimble dexterity, Freeman-Attwood's playing is just as striking for the beauty of his lyrical phrasing and his richness of colour, so well demonstrated by Saint-Saëns's "Romanza",... — More…
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Languorous and brilliant by turns, this star clarinettist's recital is a delight.… — More…
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Cargill's beautifully integrated, smoky mezzo reveals the full stature of [Alma's] songs, just as Simon Lepper relishes their fearless piano writing...The Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen welcome... — More…
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The Paul Robeson Legacy
Willard White (bass). Guy Barker (trumpet), Neal Thornton (piano), Geoff Gascoyne (bass), Richard Bolton (guitar), Mark Doffman (drums)
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Saeijs's is a memorable interpretation. She smoothly negotiates the works' fiendish challenges without once compromising her lustrous tone. At the same time she is faithful to the spirit of... — More…
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Emma Bell sings Richard Strauss, Bruno Walter & Joseph Marx
Emma Bell (soprano), Andrew West (piano)
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Gilchrist is an impressively rounded advocate. His enunciation is superb, his melodic phrasing is always wonderfully musical; he can be seductive, but at times there's an eloquent astringency... — More…
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Britten: My Beloved is Mine
Song cycles by Benjamin Britten
James Gilchrist (tenor) & Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Gilchrist is as agile as his pianist and evidently attuned to the importance of her role...the mystic union of ground-bass piano with confident vocal line in the concluding 'Death, be not proud'... — More…
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