Freiburger Barockorchester
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In the Freiburg Orchestra's exhilaraing account, the soft-grained Baroque flute which gilds the B minor Suite certainly fits well with the 'small is beautiful' impulse...Its reading may lack... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2014, First Choice
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Record Review, October 2011, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 5
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Faust is the Wise Child of the violin world, combining the innocent exuberance of a prodigy with a commanding intellectual depth that carries all before it…If the Reformation is harder to love... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th August 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 & 2 Overtures
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
I have never heard this concerto sound so interesting and surprising. It is, of course, known as Beethoven’s most introspective. Here it fascinates anew for the sheer sounds it makes and for... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 & Choral Fantasy
Christiane Karg (soprano), Sophie Harmsen (mezzo), Werner Güra (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Pablo Heras-Casado
It goes beyond [Hogwood and Norrington], not in the remarkable speed at which it all moves, but in the intensity with which every player invests his part in its fury and wildness…I hadn’t heard... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, Orchestral Choice
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Mozart Arias
RecommendedChristian Gerhaher (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz
the pleasure of this Mozartian anthology lies not so much in individual characterisation as in the powerful personal dramaturgy with which Gerhaher shapes his programme. The transformations... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 1
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Bezuidenhout’s instrument is an echt Érard…It’s capable of a wide range of colours and dynamics [Bezuidenhout is] as happy to allow his passagework to rumble away within the body of the orchestra... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019
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Corelli: Concerti Grossi & Sinfonia to Santa Beatrice d’Este
Gottfried von der Goltz (violin and director)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Great fun, this: inspired by evidence that Corelli himself was partial to upscaling his concerti grossi (originally scored for strings-only) when resources and circumstances permitted, Gottfried... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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The Schumann Trilogy. Complete Concertos & Piano Trios
Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
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Record Review, 3rd June 2023, Record of the Week
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