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Michael Denhoff - Credo
Chor der Katholischen Hochschule für Kirchemusik St. Gregorius Aachen / Steffen Schreyer
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 238 MB | Full Artwork: 210 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Cybele # SACD 860.301 | Country/Year: Germany 2004
Genre: Classical, Sacred | Style: Choral, Vocal, 21st Century

…Denhoff's compositional vocabulary shows evidence of a sensitive feeling for harmony and form, whose roots are to be found in composers such as Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Olivier Messiaen, Morton Feldman and György Kurtág…

Valentin Silvestrov - Symphony No. 6
Beethoven Orchester Bonn - Roman Kofman
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 155 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Gold" # 937 1478-6 | Country/Year: Germany 2007
Genre: Classical | Style: Contemporary

…the Bonn orchestra and the Ukrainian conductor create a performance that might conceivably do for Silvestrov what Bernstein did for Mahler: turn him into a superstar. As always, Musik Dabringhaus und Grimm's digital recording is as real as it gets.

Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 1 & Overtures
Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 323 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: BIS # BIS-SACD-1569 | Country/Year: Sweden 2007
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

…For lovers of the Schumann symphonies, I would suggest they try this disc; I think they will find it does indeed 'Open Doors'.

Georg Friedrich Händel - Sonatas For The Recorder
Dorothee Oberlinger / Ensemble 1700
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 406 MB | Full Artwork: 140 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Raumklang "Edition Marc Aurel" # MA SA 024 | Country/Year: Germany 2007 (2004)
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque, Recorder

…Yet these are not fragile or rarefied renditions, for Oberlinger and her companions are quite vigorous in the Allegro movements; the long, lyrical lines in the Larghettos and Adagios are always solidly supported through the soloist's unerring ornamentation; and the accompaniment is fully realized and strongly characterized, distributed throughout the works to a variety of basso continuo instruments. The illustrated booklet includes an informative essay on the recorder's history and Handel's music by Gerhard Braun, and the recording is absolutely clear in details and natural in reproduction. This disc is highly recommended.

Eugen D'Albert - Der Golem: Opera in 3 Acts
Mark Morouse / Beethoven Orchester Bonn / Chor des Theater Bonn / Stefan Blunier
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 467 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Live" # 937 1637-6 | Country/Year: Germany 2010
Genre: Classical | Opera, Early 20th Century

…The opera is very much worth hearing—and owning (though I wish MD&G had supplied an English translation of the libretto). The performances are for the most part on target. (…) So I guess this must be a qualified recommendation, but a recommendation nonetheless, given the quality of D’Albert’s music.

Franz Schmidt - Symphony No. 4 / Intermezzo from "Notre Dame"
Beethoven Orchester Bonn - Stefan Blunier
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 173 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Live" # 937 1631-6 | Country/Year: Germany 2010
Genre: Classical | Style: Late Romantic

…MDG’s 5.1/stereo/2+2+2 recording, apparently the first in a new series of live recordings by these artists, is superb. It is spacious with a wide dynamic range. The sound reaches the listener from a midway position in the Beethovenhalle, Bonn, that in no way limits the impact of the massive tam-tam strokes and cymbals at the climaxes, yet allows the strings to exhibit a pleasing smoothness and bloom. There is no trace to be heard of an audience or applause at the end of a work that demands reflective silence following its conclusion.Those contemplating purchasing a recording of this supremely beautiful masterpiece should definitely add Blunier’s eloquent reading to their shortlist.

Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish" / Symphony No. 1 "Spring"
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen / Paavo Järvi
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 258 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: RCA Red Seal # 88697 96431 2 | Country/Year: Europe 2010
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

…A treasureable and revelatory disc of the alpha and omega of Schumann's symphonies; I can hardly wait for the other pair.