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Lothar Odinius (tenor), Roxana Constantinescu (alto), Markus Eiche (bass), Letizia Scherrer (soprano), Michael Nagy (bass), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor)Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, Stuttgart Bach Collegium, Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling Hänssler · 98279 · 78 minutes Helmuth Rilling has spent a lifetime living inside Bach’s music, and you can feel every one of those years in […]
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Marmen Quartet BIS · BIS2693 · 67 minutes The Marmen Quartet plays these six Bartók string quartets like the music lives inside them — there’s a raw, cellular energy here that makes even familiar passages feel freshly dangerous. BIS gives them a recording that captures every percussive snap and microtonal shimmer, so you’re right there in the room when […]
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Alfred Brendel (piano)Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner Decca · 4425712 · 2 hours 34 minutes Brendel and Marriner just click in a way that feels almost unreasonably good — there’s a conversational quality between the piano and the Academy that makes these concerti feel alive rather than performed. Brendel brings this wonderful clarity and wit […]
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Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan Deutsche Grammophon · 4745372 · 84 minutes Karajan and the Berlin Phil at the height of their powers — that’s what you’re getting here, and the playing has a richness and weight that frankly nobody’s quite matched since. There’s a reason this swept the 1984 Gramophone Awards and still turns up on those […]
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs, RIAS Kammerchor Harmonia Mundi · HMX290404145 Jacobs treats this Magic Flute as a piece of theatre for your ears, and the result crackles with life — the dialogue, the period band’s bite, the way every scene feels like it’s actually happening in a room you’re sitting in. The Akademie für […]
