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Rousseau: Le Devin du village The shepherd Colin, who has taken to courting a noble lady, grows weary of a life of luxury and returns to his simple country life with the shepherdess Colette. The universal talent Jean-Jacques Rousseau could not have come up with a better plot for the impressive and urgent proclamation of the motto, ‘Back to Nature’, that turned the eighteenth century around and upside down! The fact that he then also immediately set it as an opera was another stroke of genius. Actually, it is only an intermezzo composed shortly after Pergolesi’s La serva padrona and thus the first
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Chandos CHAN 10723 Final Cut – Aquarelle Guitar Quartet This disc comprises some of cinema’s ...
Schurmann: Music for Violin and Piano – Alyssa Park (violin), Mikhail Korzhev (piano) The Anglo-Dutch composer Gerard Schurmann, born ...
Signum SIG 287 James Rhodes Live in Brighton In 2008 / 09 James Rhodes saw his profile go from complete unknown ...
LSO LS 0719 Britten: War Requiem – Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside, Sabina Cvilak, London Symphony Chorus, ...
Retrospective RT 4137 Édith Piaf: La Vie en rose – her forty-five finest, 1935 – 57 ...
Retrospective RT 4142 Billie Holiday: Billie’s Blues Billie Holliday is one of the tragic cult ...
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Volume 1 – Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is starting a complete, chronological survey of ...
Nimbus NI 6190 A Japanese Journey: Songs by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese poets and composers ...
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'This second recording in Sophie Yates's Rameau series (the first was released four years ago 12/00) has it all -...
Williamson’s technical facility and stylistic diversity is one this; what he did with his skills is another: the musi... International Record Review
The Wigmore’s “live” label gets off to a cracking start with another scorching set of Nash Ensemble’s performances of... Classic FM Magazine
The Arditti Quartet’s disc is, for me, the pick of the bunch on the new Wigmore Hall label. As soon as they begin the... The Sunday Times
This BBC lunchtime recital effectively combines the native and foreign talents of a singer whose technique and intell... Gramophone
What Hill does is allow the listener to come to the music, rather than bring the music to the listener... Gramophone
He has the knack of exploring highly effective uncomplicated choral devices, and providing both singers and listeners... Choir and Organ
Bill Barnewitz’s platonically beautiful reading of the long horn melody in the second movement was the signal event i... Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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