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hifinews.com | Peter Quantrill
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Thomas Kaufmann, Camerata Bern‘Exile’ – Panufnik, Schnittke, Wyschnegradsky, Ysaÿe, etc. Alpha ALPHA1110 (downloads to 96kHz/24-bit resolution)Concept albums from PK and her Swiss partners never make for a comfortable listen. Schnittke’s First Cello Sonata, in neo-Baroque dress, trades in Mahlerian violence but keeps heavy irony at bay – unlike the Schubert dances used for one of the interludes.
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bachtrack.com | Peter Quantrill
With The Ring, Wagner may have conceived one overarching drama of folly and redemption, but he wrote it in four instalments sufficient unto themselves. You would not need to have seen Das Rheingold, or perhaps even any Wagner at all, to be caught in the grip of Die Walküre as it was staged last night at the Royal Opera.
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bachtrack.com | Peter Quantrill
As Music Director of the London Philharmonic, Edward Gardner has not hitherto demonstrated any strong Mahlerian affinity, except notably in the case of Das Lied von der Erde. He reliably brings careful attention to the unity of text and music, and he gets the best out of choirs, and he did so again in the Eighth Symphony.
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hifinews.com | Peter Quantrill
Vrána, Janácek Phil Ostrava/HronKaprálová: Military Sinfonietta, Piano Concerto, Suita RusticaCPO 555568-2 (two discs; downloads to 96kHz/24-bit resolution)Kaprálová is a voice worth investigating amid the clamour of pre-WW2 music, despite her early death from typhoid fever, in 1940. Her forms are taut, her harmony spicily Bartókian, not obviously indebted to her teacher Martinů.
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hifinews.com | Peter Quantrill
Luigi Nono Venetian radicalPeter Quantrill | Apr 26, 2025 | First Published: Oct 1, 2024 Classical heroes, Communist ideology, the lapping waves of a lagoon... Peter Quantrill explores the disparate origins of Nono’s sound-world though a rich recorded legacyPolitically charged modernism must be the least fashionable, most lazily derided category of music in the present day. This is a curious state of affairs. In the field of art, such idealism is everywhere – it’s almost obligatory.
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