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This is the "Belgian Court Trio" (Trio from the Court of Belgium, literally)" Emile Bouquet, piano (1878-1959); Alfred Dubois, violin, and Maurice Dambois, cello (1889-1969). All encodings are taken from Columbia originals (a watchword for quality), and the surfaces are pristine - well done Biddulph label and Ward Marston for his engineering and mastering. The ‘royal’ ...


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Relocation, relocation, relocation: Coney Island, Booklyn, is a long way from the Bay of Naples. But such is the setting for Phelim McDermott’s Cosi fan tutte; or is that Cosi fan tutti? The latter appears late in the opera on one of the many boards: the change from feminine plural (all women are the same) to a more ambiguous masculine plural/all-embr...


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The indefatigable Neeme Jävi (I wonder what his record disc total is?) leads the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in his fabulously recorded disc, a coupling of composers one might not immediately consider juxtaposing, too: the Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960) and the Finnish Einojuhani Rauavaaara (1928-2016).

And what a beautiful congas there is between the...


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Monteverdi Madrigals, Book VIII (excerpts).

Altri canti d’Amor; Ho che’l ciel e la terra; Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; Ballo, Movete al mio bel suon la piante snll. Altri canti de Mare; Vago augelletto che cantando vai; Ninfa che, scalza il piede; Dolcissimo uscignolo; Lamento dell Ninfa

Anna Dennis (soprano); Ed Lyon (...


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So, afe the French part of Sandine Piau nd David Kadouch's Wigmore recital on Monday (review posted yesterday), here's an extension of that French arm: Iris Scialom and Antonin Bonnet making their recoding debut as a duo on the Scala Music label in music by Gabriel Fauré and two of his pupils, Ravel and Enescu.

So,arboescence: trees, a reference to organicism in ...


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