Browse: Amsterdam Sinfonietta (orchestra)
This page lists all recordings performed by Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
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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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Gramophone Magazine, June 2004, Editor's Choice
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Vasks: Presence
RecommendedSol Gabetta (cello), Irène Timacheff-Gabetta (organ)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
There's a simplicity and immediacy to Vasks's musical languge, not that far removed in character and spirituality to the sound world explored in John Taverner's The Protecting Veil, which makes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th November 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, Concerto Choice
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Lavinia Meijer: Voyage
A journey through French repertoire from Claude Debussy to Yann Tiersen with Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Lavinia Meijer (harp)
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Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D956
Amsterdam Sinfonietta soloists: Candida Thompson (violin), Jacobien Rozemond (violin), Daniel Bard (viola), Kaori Yamagami (cello), Rick Stotijn (double bass)
a fun new version...We forfeit the sweetness of the two cellos crooning their high tenor duets, but instead we get heft, and an added darkness that matches the angst beneath the work’s tuneful... — More…
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Britten: Works for voice & string orchestra
Barbara Hannigan (soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor) & Jasper de Waal (horn)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson (artistic director)
Hannigan brings a fined-down intensity to the more hushed Rimbaud settings such as 'Being Beauteous', but elsewhere her tone tends to flutter under pressure...Gilchrist, by contrast, sounds at... — More…
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Mendelssohn - Complete Concertos
Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Ronald Brautigam (piano) & Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Ronald Brautigam (piano), Roland Pöntinen (piano) & Love Derwinger (piano)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Lev Markiz
[On the original release] a winning soloist [Isabelle van Keulen] with a soft tone like the finest-spun silk – plus strength to match, when required — More…
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[On the original 4-CD release] Life-enhancing music…. [and] performances to match from a group with brilliance of execution and beautiful even tone as a starting-point for the classical athletic... — More…
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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 & Walton: Serenade for Strings
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
Arrangements for string orchestra of works originally written for string quartet are not uncommon, especially in the cases of Beethoven and Schubert… But in the amazing scherzo, with its huge... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2006, Disc of the Month
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