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BBC Music Magazine Awards, Poulenc (composer)
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Special offer. Deux
RecommendedMusic for Violin & Piano by Bartók, Poulenc & Ravel
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Polina Leschenko (piano)
Playing of such consummate ease combined with involvement and attention to detail...Simply, this is one of the finest, most musically sensitive recordings to have come my way for some time,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th February 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Chamber
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Special offer. Take 3
Reto Bieri (clarinet), Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Polina Leschenko (piano)
[The playing] can affectionately embrace the whimsical to the manner born, but equally bristles with spellbinding virtuosity, compelling insight and crests a lifeforce carrying all before it. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Devieilhe has the ideal voice for the Ariettes oubliées, with a creamily dreamy opening to ‘C’est l’extase’. Her iridescent clarity is to the fore throughout...matched by Alexandre Tharaud’s... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Song
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Solo Vocal Recital (Song)
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Tenebrae is equal to every challenge. The tuning is impeccable, the phrasing intelligent and never forced, the balance always adjusted to the demands of Poulenc's textures...Not least, the sopranos... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, Choral & Song Choice
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Un Frisson Français - A century of French song
Susan Graham (mezzo soprano) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)
The familiar here appears in unusual contexts and alongside a scattering of rarities. The performers are at one in their fluency, delicate rubato and avoidance of Anglo-Saxon archness, within... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Vocal Finalist
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Special offer. Æther
Sarah Aristidou (soloist), Daniel Barenboim, Christian Rivet, Emmanuel Pahud
Orchester des Wandels, Chor der Klangverwaltung, Thomas Guggeis
Can you capture the ineffable? Sarah Aristidou’s remarkable debut disc Æther explores things within and beyond. She is duly shrouded in mist for the booklet pictures, but there is nothing the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Newcomer
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