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NAZARETH / SCOTT / LAMB
Rags & Tangos Joshua Rifkin (piano) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 12/Sep/2015 ] Joshua Rifkin is a musical polymath - a Bach scholar and a Ragtime specialist. His performances of Ragtime are gentle and inviting and in this wonderful recording of Rags and Tangos (made in 1990 for Decca) he treats us to a Scott Joplin-free... |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Stabat Mater Op 58 / Psalm CXLIX Op 79 John Aler (ten) / Christine Brewer (sop) / Ding Gao (bar) / Washington Orchestra [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 3/Oct/2002 ] "This live recording adds a distinguished feather to the cap of Naxos... The heartfelt quality of Dvorak's music, affected by the death of his two-day old daughter Josefa, inspires an intense performance from Robert Schafer and his Washington forces.... |
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MANUEL de FALLA
El amor brujo / Noches en los jardines de Espana (with works by Granados & Ravel) Alicia de Larrocha (piano) / London Philharmonic, New Philharmonia, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, with Nati Mistral (contralto) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "beautifully clean and fresh … the warm acoustic is put to excellent use. The texture is open and there is an agreeable bloom on the strings." Gramophone Magazine (Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain) |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Fliegende Hollander [The Flying Dutchman] Theo Adam, Anja Silja, Martti Talvela / BBC Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer [ EMI Classics / 3 CD - released 8/Mar/2010 ] "The most remarkable aspect of the performance… remains the empathy between Klemperer, Silja and Adam. Adam's Act 1 monologue seizes the dramatic high ground, but Silja raises the stakes still further with an electrifying account of Senta's Ballad,... |