Tabea Zimmermann
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Brahms: String Sextets
RecommendedBelcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
The two works have attracted numerous fine recordings, but here a luxury cast of the Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras bring us a really special one – full-toned, warm-hearted... —
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Record Review, 12th March 2022, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Chamber
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Gramophone Awards, 2022 Finalists
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber
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Brahms: Trio Op. 114. Robert & Clara Schumann: Romances
Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Javier Perianes (piano), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
With a dynamic palette that ranges from a whisper to a wail, the viola player and her superb, sensitive pianist Javier Perianes take us on an emotionally wrenching journey in just over five... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2026, Editor's Choice
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Zimmermann’s playing is profoundly thoughtful, leading to flawlessly structured readings...Perhaps most remarkable is Zimmermann’s breathtakingly skilful performance of the Sarabandes in which... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, Instrumental Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Solo Instrumental Recital (Viola)
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Es war einmal... (Once Upon a Time...)
Fairy Tales by Robert Schumann & Jörg Widmann
Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Tabea Zimmermann (viola) & Dénes Várjon (piano)
The first movement of Widmann’s piece has fragments in Schumannesque style floating in and out of focus…It’s an altogether impressive work, and Widmann is joined in this premiere recording by... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Chamber Music Recording (19th-Century Music)
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Musique de chambre
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Chamber Music
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Zimmermann & Gerstein: Sonatas for Viola & Piano Vol. 1
RecommendedTabea Zimmermann (viola) & Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Tabea Zimmermann achieves these whirling arabesques effortlessly, and she and Kirill Gerstein transform the atmosphere with deft economy as Debussy’s ghost materialises in a mournful second... —
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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Ives: Piano Sonata & Songs
RecommendedPierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano), Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
It's a conceptual collage fraught with intellectual and technical difficulties...which makes Pierre-Laurent Aimard a near-perfect match, a pianist who revels in Ives's ideas and who's equal... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2004, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 47th Awards (2004), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Bartok - The Concerto Album
RecommendedKyung-Wha Chung, Sviatoslav Richter, Martha Argerich, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Tabea Zimmermann
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Philharmonia Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Philadelphia...
The interpretation is passionate, but she finds time for a dreamy lyricism that never cloys - most of all, in Bartók's nocturnal variations in the poetic middle movement. —
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Building a Library, February 2008, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Concerto
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Richard Strauss: Don Quixote & Till Eulenspiegel
RecommendedTabea Zimmermann (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, François-Xavier Roth
Queyras's subtlety is peerless in Quixote’s melancholy nocturnal vigil…Roth’s Till Eulenspiegel is among the very liveliest…there’s wonderful woodwind character as Till skips alongside the pedants,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Hindemith: Complete Viola Works Volume 1
Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hans Graf
Zimmermann's first volume of a complete survey immediately takes its place among the very best, not least for the warmer, woodier tone that she produces and puts to such musically penetrating... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Concerto Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013, Editor's Choice
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Some purists may take exception to Dausgaard’s tempos or dynamics here and there, but the Bach performances, for the most part, are crisp, lively and expressive, and the BIS recording vivid,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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