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[…] by Rautavaara that complete this release is told in the liner notes, a tale that I will not relate here but will rather leave for those who might be interested to seek out for themselves. The music is quite enjoyable, but in truth, does not quite sound complete, which a reading of the liner notes will explain. All in all, Paris is a heartfelt and satisfying release from some consummate musicians.Parallels: Shellac Reworks by Christian LöfflerWagner: Parsifal: Closing Scene (Arr. for Orchestra). Max von Schillings, Staatskapelle Berlin (1926-27); Smetana: The Moldau (excerpt). Erich Kleiber, Staatskapelle Berlin (1928); J.S. Bach: Dir, dir Jehova, will ich singen BWV 452. Karl Straube, Thomanerchor Leipzig; Helmut Walcha, organ (1927); J.S. Bach: Gavotte from English Suite No. 6, BWV 811. Alfred Grunfeld, piano (1911); Chopin: Nocturne No. 2 in E flat Major Op. 9 No. 2 (arr. De Sarasate). Charles Cerne, piano; Vasa Prihoda, violin […]
2020-03-01 14:23:54
Wigmore Hall, LondonViolinist Isabelle Faust shone as she partnered with oboist Xenia Löffler and Bernhard Forck It’s hard to think of any other leading violinist today who moves as comfortably as Isabelle Faust does between the 19th and 20th-century repertoire and the period-instrument specialists of baroque and classical music. She excels in both, and as if to underline this unfussy versatility, just a day after the release of her exceptional recording of the Schoenberg concerto with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Faust played concertos by Bach at Wigmore Hall, London, with one of Europe’s leading period bands, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. A number of Bach’s concertos survive as works for harpsichord and orchestra rather than in their original forms for other instruments, and the two solo violin concertos that Faust played, in G minor BWV 1056R and D minor BWV 1052R, are modern reconstructions of harpsichord works, though both […]
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Faces of classical music
2020-02-02 16:37:00
The best new classical albums: January 2020
[…] of Messiaen in Grieg's and Britten's depictions of nightingales.Shot through with glimpses of spring around the corner, this imaginatively-programmed and gloriously performed recital is the perfect companion for a long winter’s evening: if it gave me one or two "sleepless nights" of my own, it was only because its many beauties continued to run through my mind well after lights-out.Source: Katherine Cooper (prestomusic.com) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Oboe Concertos Wq.164 & 165, Symphonies Wq.180 & 181Xenia Löffler, oboeAkademie für Alte Musik BerlinConcertmaster: Georg KallweitRecorded at Teldex Studio Berlin, Germany, in March 2018Released on January 17, 2020 by Ηarmonia mundiThe oboe concertos – CPE Bach at his most amenable – get prime billing on the jewel case. Yet it's the two capriciously inventive symphonies from the mid-1750s that really grip the imagination here. These are far less familiar than CPE's later sets of Hamburg symphonies, but hardly less subversive in their violently compacted […]
2019-12-09 12:00:00
Baroque oboe sonatas played by Xenia Löffler, strongly recommended by Geoff Pearce. '... played very pleasingly with great style and panache by all instruments concerned.'