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Building a Library, Contemporary (era)
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The [Goldberg] Aria sings without affectation as if to emphasise that what follows isn't about the theme but what happens to it...Unstarchy too is Levit's approach to Beethoven's Diabelli Variations...As... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Disc of the Month
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Building a Library, June 2017, Also Recommended
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Instrumental
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Brahms: Symphony No.4 & MacMillan: Larghetto for Orchestra
RecommendedPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
In this outstanding performance of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, Manfred Honeck draws a wonderfully rich, almost Central European string sound from the Pittsburgh Symphony, matched by equally mellifluous... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Building A Library, October 2025, Top Choice (Brahms)
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Lieux retrouvés
RecommendedMusic for cello & piano
Steven Isserlis (cello), with Thomas Adès (piano)
Match [Ades's playing] with the mellow sound and manner of Steven Isserlis's cello, and you have something very special. Their choice of repertory here - devised as an extended upbeat to Ades's... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2013, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Disc of the Month
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Musical Toys, above all, delights in the importance of being playful...the work that makes the CD essential is Unsuk Chin’s set of Six Piano Etudes: music that magnificently fuses contemporary... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2017, Recommended Recording
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Newcomer Award
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Some might prefer Britten’s Ceremony of Carols to be a little rowdier, but this is otherwise a technically superb display of largely unfamiliar, and imaginatively chosen, festive music. One... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2024, Recommended Recording (A Ceremony of Carols)
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Special offer. Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from Lugano 2016
RecommendedMartha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Sergey Babayan (piano), Sergio Tiempo (piano), Karin Lechner (piano), Nicholas Angelich (piano)
violin
David Guerrier, horn
violino, Tedi Papavrami (violin)
piano, Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana,...
This is the last of Warner’s annual gleanings from the Lugano Festival at which Martha Argerich presides - and definitely the most exciting. She may be 76, but her playing has lost none of... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended Recording
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the performances are startlingly beautiful and free and the arrangements endlessly creative — More…
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Building a Library, April 2016, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Gubaidulina: Offertorium & Hommage à T. S. Eliot
RecommendedGidon Kremer (violin), Christine Whittlesey, Eduard Brunner, Klaus Thunemann, Radovan Vlatkovic, Isabelle van Keulen, Tabea Zimmermann, David Geringas & Alois Posch
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit
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Building a Library, May 2017, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. On Wenlock Edge
RecommendedAndrew Kennedy (tenor)
Dante Quartet, Simon Crawford Philips
…Kennedy… proves himself a rising start with performances keenly sung if occasionally rather mannered, supported by Simon Crawford Philips and the Dante players. — More…
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Building a Library, September 2018, Recommended Recording
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Kopatchinskaja & Fazil Say - Violin Sonatas
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin) & Fazil Say (piano)
This is far from being just another recording of the Kreutzer Sonata. Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazil Say share a radical approach, performing each musical gesture in the most vivid way, with... — More…
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Building A Library, July 2021, Recommended Recording
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