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Aaron Jay Kernis & James Newton Howard: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano)
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot, Cristian Măcelaru
This disc showcases three commissions aimed squarely at the Canadian virtuoso’s dazzling skillset. At the centre is a concerto by James Newton Howard…The work is lyrical, wildly cavorting and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Concerto Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Classical Instrumental Solo
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Contemporary Classical Composition
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conjures up this utterly serene state of bliss — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th April 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Prokofiev: Complete Works for Violin
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin), with Amy Schwartz Moretti (violin), with Andrew Armstrong (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
I have not heard such a beautiful performance of the First Violin Concerto since Itzhak Perlman's 1982 EMI recording, and Ehnes enjoys the advantage of a more natural balance with the orchestra...Ehnes... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, January 2023, Recommended Recording - Violin Concerto No. 2
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The Kreutzer Sonata is placed first, so we hear James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong presenting their credentials in turn – Ehnes with effortless accurate double stops, and Armstrong picking up... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Mythes is all heightened sensuality and warmth, its heady atmosphere evoked through playing of extraordinary colour, detail and dexterity. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Debussy, Elgar, Respighi & Sibelius: Violin Sonatas
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano)
This is a radiantly engineered album of music composed around the time of the Great War, played with beguiling elegance by James Ehnes and regular playing partner Andrew Armstrong. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Ehnes’s playing [is] a feast of likeably gloss-free tone, magisterial technical command and flawless tuning…Ehnes responds to [the Spring Sonata] as the soul-warming masterpiece it is: the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Editor's Choice
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Juno Awards, 2021, Nominated - Classical Album of the Year (Solo or Chamber)
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[No. 10] seems especially apt to the contained luminosity of James Ehnes’s violin playing, the pristine pianism of Andrew Armstrong and their remarkable rapport, playing as if one…Recorded in... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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With some discs, you can just tell that everything’s going to go like a dream… The freshness and spontaneity of these interpretations is unfaltering, as is the instantaneous rapport and subtle,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Chamber
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Needless to say, the score [of the Solo Sonata] holds no terrors for Ehnes who delivers a magisterial performance...Ehnes and his excellent pianist, Andrew Armstrong, make the best possible... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, Chamber Choice
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