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This recording marks Sir Colin Davis' swansong from opera but the timing of the release is such that the accompanying material does not reflect this fact.
Perhaps fittingly, this account from Sir Colin Davis sounds as if from another age and certainly the sheer scale and power of his reading pays ... more |
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The French Baroque produced a wealth of harpsichord music, mainly to be played in the domestic settings of noble and upper middle class patrons. The music is of a very distinctive character, and two main periods can be discerned, pivoting around the works of François Couperin (1668–1733). French ... more |
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Site review by Castor April 29, 2013
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Performances of the music of Richard Wagner will for many be associated with Iván Fischer's elder brother Adam who has conducted complete Ring cycles at Bayreuth and in Budapest. Those, however, who follow the concert schedules of Iván Fischer and his phenomenally hard working Budapest Festival ... more |
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I was going to start by saying that I am a fan of jazz vocalists doing Great American Songbook songs, but the truth is that while I have bought a bunch of sacds of this nature, I frequently find that the "jazz" treatment seems randomly imposed on and at odds with the underlying material. Happily, ... more |
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Site review by akiralx April 27, 2013
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I enjoyed this recording, a straightforward performance well recorded.
The orchestra does not sound massively sumptuous as on some RBCDs of this work but there is plenty of warmth as well as detail - many wonderful examples of the composer's fine-spun scoring emerge with remarkable clarity. I ... more |
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