Browse: Channel (label)
This page lists all recordings from the label Channel.
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Fischer… offers a sparkling performance of the popular overture to Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers, and his account of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is impressive, with the major-mode episodes... — More…
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Tides of Life
RecommendedArrangements for string ensemble and baritone by David Matthews
Candida Thompson (violin) & Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Netherlands Female Youth Choir
In his orchestrations Matthews makes inspired and sensitive use of string colour and intimate solos…and in Schubert's Ständchen for vocal ensemble, the demure-sounding girls' choir, supported... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th February 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Fischer contrasts gracious, chamber-textured dances with brilliant fanfares and toppling masses to absolute perfection. Throughout there’s a transparency to the recorded sound, even in the heftiest... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2019, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Choral Finalist
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2007, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, January 2007, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2003, Editor's Choice
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Fischer's approach is certainly involved with the work's expressive character, but also with Dvorak's strong symphonic control. The musical argument in the first movement is powerful...Fischer... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, October 2020, Also Recommended
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As so often with Ivan Fischer, it's the breadth of insight that impresses here...the outer movements and Scherzo have plenty of muscular energy, and yet the lines can sing too...The recorded... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, Orchestral Choice
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Record Review, July 2011, Recording of the Week
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JS Bach: Double & Triple Concertos
RecommendedRachel Podger (violin/director), Bojan Čičić (violin II), Katy Bircher (flute), Alexandra Bellamy (oboe), Johannes Pramsohler, Anna Nowak-Pokrzywinska (violins II & III)
Brecon Baroque
the music emerges with integrated, unaffected and airy naturalness...And in BWV1064R, the three-violin version here often outshines the surviving three-harpsichord version. Podger's Bach has... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2016, Also Recommended
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Building A Library, February 2022, Recommended Recording
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Shostakovich & Weinberg: Cello Concertos
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Deutsches Symfonie-Orchester Berlin, Michal Nesterowicz
The Weinberg is wonderfully played by Nicolas Altstaedt, who brings tone both muscular and soft-grained to illuminate the work’s contrasting facets…this is a notably warm performance thanks to... — More…
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Fischer finds more mystery in the slow introduction to the first movement of the Fourth Symphony than many other conductors...And it gets better and better: there's a beautiful, singing quality... — More…
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