SACD, Berio (composer)
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Special offer. Berio: Orchestral realisations of Schubert, Brahms & Mahler
Michael Collins (clarinet), Roderick Williams (baritone)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
[Berio's] versions of the Mahler songs are straightforward and affectionately sung by Roderick Williams...Berio himself looms larger in Rendering...The sound of the celesta, alien to Schubert,... —
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Any singer must exorcise the ghost of Cathy Berberian in this and other vocal works of Berio and...Virpi Räisänen has the measure of it...In Hannu Lintu's marvellous new recording I hear and... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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Berio: Coro & Voices of London (Version for 8 Voices)
The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Grete Pedersen
[Coro] t’s a mighty tour de force, particularly with Surround sound, but it doesn’t bluster. Cries Of London is far from lightweight, but it comes as a gentle anticlimax to the main piece and... —
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Ferschtman's programme is clearly planned so that each piece illuminates its companions...the Berio is suitably uncompromsing at the start and wonderfully dextrous in the quick passagework. —
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Dedicated to Christian Lindberg
Christian Lindberg (trombone)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Rundel
Each of these pieces for trombone and orchestra subtly subverts the concept of the concerto in its composer's idiosyncratic way. Lindberg performs them with astonishing technical assurance,... —
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