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Piatti Quartet
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Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge & other songs
Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Timothy Ridout (viola), Piatti Quartet
The famous cycle On Wenlock Edge (1909) has of ten been recorded, but this is a fine rendering with ‘Bredon Hill’ providing some particularly sublime moments. As always Julius Drake’s accompanying... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Song
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Bracing Change 2
RecommendedTurnage - Newland - Grime
Piatti Quartet, Quatuor Bozzini, Heath Quartet
In Sylvia Plath’s Contusion – written shortly before the poet ’s suicide – the titular bruise is observed in the context of metaphors that detail irreversible emotional anguish. Mark-Anthony... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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The cycle’s nine songs form an irrepressible exclamation of love bursting through the composer’s customary nonchalance. […] This is Fauré for the concert hall rather than the drawing room, big-hearted,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Song
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Ina Boyle: String Quartet
Recommendedplus works by Vaughan Williams, Moeran & Ireland
Piatti Quartet
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Each work has its own transparency of form and texture which shows an unabashed debt to Britten among other forebears. Yet it’s completely Phibbs’s voice that emerges through his wholly coherent... —
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Special offer. Ned Rorem: Choral Works
Daisy Walford, Toby Hughes, St Martin's Voices, Piatti Quartet, Andrew Earis
it’s an area of Rorem’s output that is more than worth your time. St Martin’s Voices (and the Piatti Quartet in three pieces) more than do j justice to this music, imbued as it is with no small... —
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a format that allows these quartets, showing Mendelssohn at his best, to reveal their multifarious qualities: energy, passion, tenderness, wit and civilised authority...Overall, I can only applaud... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, Chamber Choice
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Boris Bizjak, playing on a modern wood flute, handles all of the turns with alacrity and ease. His tone quality is pure and quite full, blending nicely with the string accompaniments, here equally... —
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What will not be in question for anyone who listens to this CD is the value of Sohal’s contributions to the genre...I can think of no higher compliment than to say that [the Piattis'] profound... —
