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Phils 11: Handel, Brahms

Handel: Water Music
Robert King, The King’s Consort
Hyperion

A recording this infectious doesn’t happen unless the players are having a whale of a good time. Musicality runs through it like a thread. King puts not just a tune in your head but a kick in your step, a gesture in your body, a radiant smile on your face. His period instrument orchestra has lift and articulation and is never sterile or academic. Pastoral selections are very sweet. The album offers not only Handel’s complete Water Music but Telemann’s as well.


Brahms: German Requiem
Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz, Wolfgang Holzmair; Herbert Blomstedt, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Decca

Blomstedt’s choral and orchestral textures are so transparent you can relish every shift in harmony and tone color as the organ quietly adds its underpinning warmth. He especially illuminates how Brahms’ pairing of the alto and tenor lines move the music forward. This is a very patient, laid-back performance; any excitement comes from its inexorable progression and Blomstedt’s focus on the text, not from any racing or clamor.

 

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