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Hubert Culot
Canat de Chizy: Chamber music (Aeon)
(Déjà Review) Robust, joyfully dancing music-making of great energy and very often great beauty [HC]
Wennäkoski: Zeng (Alba)
A fine survey of Wennäkoski’s chamber music in good performances and recording [HC]
Magnard & Fauré: String Quartets (Aeon)
(Déjà Review) Substantial works in immaculate performances [HC]
Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times (BIS)
A lesser-known facet of Pickard’s output, with a viscerally thrilling performance of the Mass [HC]
Jarrell: Orchestral Works (BIS)
Gripping, inventive, often beautiful music in superb performance and recording [HC]
Escher: Chamber Music (Et’cetera)
A fine survey in committed performances; a good introduction to a superbly crafted and often beautiful oeuvre [HC]
Tabakova: Orpheus’ Comet, Earth Suite & Concertos (Hallé)
The portrait of a fine composer – two concerti and recent orchestral music, all quite beautiful [HC]
Thomas Demenga (cello) Bach, Hosokawa & Yun (ECM)
The contemporary pieces featured here would have been unthinkable without Bach’s innovative thinking [HC]
Cabus: Piano music (Etcetera)
A most welcome survey of Peter Cabus’s piano music, finely performed and recorded [HC]
Turnage: Music to Hear (Black Box)
(Déjà Review) Turnage’s chamber music has a restrained confessional tone far from Turnage’s “public” statements. His chamber music communicates directly through simplicity, subtlety and sincerity. Highly accessible and communicative music [HC]
Oratio – 20th Century Sacred Works (Guild)
(Déjà Review) Much fine music here and wonderful singing by all concerned [HC]
Pohjola: String Quartets Nos 5-7 (Alba)
Three substantial string quartets in committed performances and a fine recording [HC]
Gurney: Songs (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Agnew is an eloquent exponent of these bitter-sweet, nostalgic and elegiac songs [HC]
Villa-Lobos: Cello Concerti, Fantasia for Cello and Orchestra (Naxos)
A very fine opportunity to hear Villa-Lobos’s complete output for cello and orchestra [HC]
Mills R: Concertos for Strings (ABC Classics)
(Déjà Review) Superb performances of these fine, though still too little known, works [HC]
Cras: Piano Works (Timpani)
(Déjà Review) Folk-like simplicity redolent of folk song … a beautifully atmospheric seascape [HC]
Woolrich: The Ghost in the Machine (NMC)
(Déjà Review) Woolrich definitely has things to say and knows how to say them in the musically most satisfying way [HC]
Simpson: Symphony 11 (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) This release, appropriately dedicated to the late Ted Perry, is up to Hyperion’s best [HC]
Balada: Orchestral works (Naxos)
The most immediately appealing of the three Naxos/Balada discs I’ve reviewed [HC]
Cooke: String Quartets Vol 1 (Toccata Classics)
The first of two volumes of Cooke’s string quartets augurs well [HC]
Frankel: Complete Symphonies (cpo)
(Déjà Review) Frankel’s symphonies have now – at long last – been given their due [HC]
Fagerlund: Flute Concerto (BIS)
Much to admire and enjoy here [HC]
Kõrvits: The Sound of Wings (Ondine)
Excellent performances in fine sound [HC]
Santoro: Symphony 8 & Cello Concerto (Naxos)
Yet another facet of Santoro’s musical progress [HC]
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