Listening Guides Archives

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Balakirev: Incidental Music

USSR State Symphony Orchestra, USSR State Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nikolai Anosov, Leo Ginzburg Naxos · 980993 · 43 minutes Balakirev doesn’t…

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Balakirev: Overtures

Dinara Klinton (piano), Niederrheinsche Sinfoniker, Mihkel Kutson MDG · MDG95222366 · 67 minutes Balakirev tends to get filed under “the guy…

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Puccini: Turandot

Sondra Radvanovsky (Turandot), Jonas Kaufmann (Calaf), Ermonela Jaho (Liù), Michele Pertusi (Timur), Michael Spyres (Altoum), Mattia Olivieri…

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Frank Bridge: – Cello Sonatas

Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano), The Royal Danish Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård Naxos · 8573690 · 73 minutes There’s something about…

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Telemann: – Concerto TWV 51:D8 in D major for horn, strings & b.c.

RJ Kelley (horn), Alexandra Cook (horn), John Aubrey (horn), Krista Bennion Feeney (violin)Palisades Baroque, Richard Dunn Centaur · CRC3380 · 75…

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Brahms: – Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 120 No. 2

Antoine Tamestit (viola), Cédric Tiberghien (piano), Matthias Goerne (baritone) Harmonia Mundi · HMM902652 · 56 minutes Brahms wrote these sonatas late…

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Beethoven: Cello Sonatas

Paul Watkins (cello), Alessio Bax (piano) Signum · SIGCD969 · 1 hour 49 minutes Beethoven basically invented the cello sonata as…

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Bernstein: Overtures

Leonardo Capalbo (Candide), Jane Archibald (Cunegonde), Anne Sofie von Otter (Old Lady), Thomas Allen (Dr Pangloss/Narrator)London Symphony…

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Boccherini: Cello Sonatas

Steven Isserlis (cello), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Hyperion · CDA68444 · 76 minutes Boccherini gets stuck with a reputation…

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Mozart: Symphony No. 40

Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Herbert Blomstedt BR Klassik · 900196 · 1 hour 42 minutes There’s something almost defiant about a…

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Saint-Saëns: Piano Trios

Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin), Isang Enders (cello), Wu Qian (piano), Sitkovetsky Trio BIS · BIS2219 · 60 minutes Ravel wrote his trio…

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Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet

with Christian Zacharias (piano)Leipzig String Quartet MDG · MDG3071610 · 1 hour 45 minutes There’s something wonderfully generous about how Zacharias…

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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27

Alfred Brendel (piano)Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras Philips · 4683672 · 67 minutes Pairing the 22nd and 27th concertos gives…

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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620

Daniel Behle (Tamino), Marlis Petersen (Pamina), Daniel Schmutzhard (Papageno), Sunhae Im (Papagena), Anna-Kristiina Kaappola (Königin der Nacht),…

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Pascal Rogé Plays Poulenc

Pascal Rogé (piano) Decca · 4750422 · 65 minutes Poulenc’s piano music occupies this wonderfully strange middle ground — it’s witty…

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Alfred Brendel Plays Haydn

Alfred Brendel (piano) Decca · 4781369 · 3 hours 20 minutes Haydn’s piano sonatas occupy a strange and wonderful corner of…

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Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2

Alexandre Kantorow (piano), Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow BIS · BIS2400 · 84 minutes Saint-Saëns wrote these early concertos with a kind…

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Mozart: String Quartets

Hagen Quartet Myrios · MYR017 · 59 minutes The Hagen Quartet plays these two Haydn-dedicated masterpieces with a warmth and flexibility…

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Bach: Goldberg Variations

Víkingur Ólafsson (piano) Deutsche Grammophon · 4864553 · 73 minutes Víkingur Ólafsson takes the Goldberg Variations at a pace that genuinely…

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Mahler: Symphony No. 9

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan Deutsche Grammophon · 4745372 · 84 minutes Mahler’s Ninth has this way of feeling like…

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Henri Dutilleux: Cello Solos

Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (piano)Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, James Gaffigan Harmonia Mundi · HMC902209 · 47 minutes Dutilleux’s cello concerto Tout un…