Eternal heaven
Georg Friedrich Händel
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Reviews (7)
The guardian
d. 23. July 2020
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Andrew Clements (musikanmelder)
d. 23. July 2020
"Elina Garanča's golden tone and Barenboim's precision are appealing, if they don't quite find Elgar's most English music".
BBC music magazine
2020 October
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David Nice
2020 October
"Daniel Barenboim's ... early recordings [of Elgar] were a bit sluggish and muddy, which is not generally the case with these Berlin Staatskapelle interpretations which are mostly agile and convincing ... Elina Garanca's beautiful instrument with its cantralto hue isn't engaged with half the colours and subtleties that Janet Baker evokes in the supreme performance with Barbirolli (on Warner) ... The bass lines of Falstaff are vitally rich and full of impact in the sudden accents".
BBC music magazine
2007 January
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Hilary Finch
2007 January
"A disc combining the two Elgar masterworks is a rare find ... That having been said, Connolly's disarmingly sentient and noble mezzo-soprano is let down in both works by the often over-generalised orchestral playing and mealy-mouthed choral singing from its Bournemouth forces ... Sir John Barbirolli, with ... Janet Baker ... is still the essential recording".
The gramophone
2015 November
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Andrew Achenbach
2015 November
"Alice Coote, partnered with exquisite grace and scrupulous care by Mark Elder and the Hallé, gives us a Sea Pictures of arresting character and flawless technical control ... An altogether most invigorating release, this, and not to be missed".
BBC music magazine
2016 January
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Stephen Johnson (f. 1955)
2016 January
"Alice Coote is a formidable artist, but not everybody warms to her edgy, truth-stripped-bare expressive style ... Mark Elder's handling of the orchestra, however, is wonderful, and where nescessary discreet".
The gramophone
2020 October
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Andrew Achenbach
2020 October
"The Latvian mezzo leaves a most alluring impression, even if her delivery of the text falls fractionally short of the idiomatic, intuitively illuminating ideal. Both 'Sabbath Morning at Sea' and 'The Swimmer' in particular are endowed with an imposing, scena-like grandeur, the mood almost Wagnerian in its brooding intensity. Daniel Barenboim and his excellent Staatskapelle Berlin provide consistently poised, affectionate and flexible support ... Fallstaff launches with a playful swagger and snapping vigour that really make you sit up ... An urgently expressive, strongly characterful and agreeably compassionate Falstaff".
The gramophone
2006 December
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Andrew Achenbach
2006 December
"The competition's tough but this new performance of The Music Makers ... can hold its head high. Simon Wright steers a commendably clear-sighted course and coaxes an idiomatic response from his Bournemouth forces ... Sarah Connolly ... singing with glorious radiance, security and richness of tone ... Connolly also steps up to the mark in the Sea Pictures ... a gripping, intelligent display, combining keen poetic and dramatic instinct with clarity of diction ... Demands to be heard".