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A full length ballet which does justice to the Dumas novel on which La traviata is more loosely based. John Neumeier’s poetic choreography is blessed with Agnès Letestu’s Marguerite. David Nice
Alain Planès creates an intense aural universe in this compelling recreation of a recital given by Chopin at the Salons Pleyel in Paris in 1842.
The CD considers not only the programme and the instrument – a Pleyel dating from 1836 – but also the style of Chopin’s playing, as far as it’s possible to know through his pupils’ reminiscences.
Bach took immense pains over the production of the six Partitas, announcing them in 1726, writing one a year until finally revising and publishing them in 1731 as his ‘Opus 1 – offered to music lovers to refresh their spirits’.
This disc is Murray Perahia’s welcome completion of the set, following Nos 2-4 in 2008.
American mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux follows her fine discs of arias for Farinelli (Harmonia Mundi HMG 501778) and arias and cantatas by Handel and Hasse (Virgin 545 7372) with a recital from Vivaldi’s operas.
The disc is a delight not just because Genaux is a technically accomplished and warmly communicative artist, but also because the arias themselves are of high quality.
Readers who have been discovering the riches afforded by Vivaldi opera over the past decade or so will be familiar with a handful of them in this well contrasted programme.
These are tautly constructed and expressively engaging concertos by composers of the generation following Vivaldi, whose idiom by the way seldom comes to mind.
Rather, it is that of Tartini, and never more so than in the cantabile style of the expansive and lyrical slow movements. Who better to disclose the poetic utterances of these pieces with their highly developed esprit de fantaisie than Giuliano Carmignola?
This is a quite wonderful disc, in which every demand one might have on a performance of these two great works is met, and then there are plenty of delightful surprises for even the most jaded listener too.