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The focus is on its genuinely symphonic breadth, the deep shadows and pregnant pauses.
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An account of Berlioz’s Harold in Italy that’s sure to exceed expectations.
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A Liszt recital that will linger in the memory long after the last notes.
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Delivered with apparently effortless grace and effervescent athleticism.
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The recording is a peach, perfectly framing Faust’s superb musicianship.
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You’ll almost believe you’d bought a ticket, so brilliant is this live recording.
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The Elias Quartet catches Britten’s powerful emotional undercurrents superbly.
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A beautifully focused recording, regardless of who actually wrote it.
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Young Latvian Nelsons conducts as though he believes in every bar.
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Two CDs for the price of one: an excellent souvenir of a canny composer.
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This could be the finest Mahler you’ll hear all year. Absolutely essential.
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A disc of serious beauty from Peter Kooij’s ensemble Sette Voci.
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Utterly charming, transcending the obvious limitations of the text.
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What we hear is Znaider’s own heartfelt response to the Elgar.
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A successful document of the occasion.
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An exhilarating journey, from illicit love to redemption with plenty of colour and range.
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Kopatchinskaja has something genuinely individual to say about this masterpiece.
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Buy this for Les Illuminations, but savour it for so many new discoveries.
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Prepare to be disarmed by a remarkable debut.
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His sweetness of tone and intense, unselfish musicality pay dividends.
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There’s something inescapably Russian about how Paterson-Olenich plays.
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...the recording captures the whole spectacle with apparent ease...
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It's as refreshing and stimulating as that icy plunge after a sauna
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...one of the finest Strauss recordings I've heard in ages.
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This may not be the last recorded word on Broucek, but right now it sounds like a...
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A seductive, sometimes shocking and viscerally exciting musical experience.
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It feels simple, yet it obviously isn’t; it’s profoundly beautiful, timeless, and...
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Volume one of this major post-war German composer's works given an emotional performance.
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Buy it, and give the Four Seasons a break…
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Let’s hope it won’t be long before we can hear the second half of the series.
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The recording is Lyrita at its best...
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...an unusual feeling of absorption, devotion and dedication...
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Sheer delight from end to end.
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It’s the only opera I know starring a diva who’s over 300 years old, and still...
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I can’t think of anything that would improve this package...
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...managed to make me listen to these concertos with something approaching fresh ears...
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...You’d have to have a cold heart not to be caught up in the performances.
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This couldn’t be better.
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Strongly, indeed, urgently recommended
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It’s the first recording the Takacs has made for its new label Hyperion, and they...
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...truly celebratory...
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Rossini's solemn mass, written towards the end of his life, is performed here in its...
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Warner Classics' second disc of music by the undeservingly neglected British...
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A superb English-language version of Bartók's brooding gothic opera, with fine...
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An impressive recording of Zemlinsky's romantic masterpiece, based on a text by...
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Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic are fabulously responsive partners to...
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Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen calls this work 'a fairy tale for grown-ups' - it...
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Daniel Hope performs Shostakovich's two violin concertos with integrity and...
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An impressive SACD of a live performance...
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Mozart's 'Dissonance' Quartet, so-called because of its harmonically-ambiguous slow...