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Dynamic ranges are wide, with Ravel's crescendos not underplayed in any mistaken attempt at classicism, and rubatos are applied with tactful expressivity. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th October 2009
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Building a Library, March 2009, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2008, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Newcomer of the Year
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The Zehetmair Quartet's coupling focuses the music's alternating wildness and fragility with altogether unique perception. Theirs is an agitated, combustible and loving view of Schumann, a credible... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2003, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2003, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Chamber
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Hamelin scampers and thunders by turns but not once does he upstage the string-players. That this disc simply gets better and better on repeated listening is ample recommendation. — More…
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Building a Library, January 2019, Recommended Recording
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Prokofiev & Sibelius - Violin Concertos
RecommendedVilde Frang (violin)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Thomas Søndergård
Frang heralds one of the freshest and most vital accounts of this familiar and frequently recorded work [the Sibelius concerto] in recent years. On display from the off is a vivid sense of intellectual... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2019, Recommended Recording
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Handel: Ariodante
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Ariodante), Karina Gauvin (Ginevra), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Polinesso), Sabina Puértolas (Dalinda), Topi Lehtipuu (Lurcanio), Matthew Brook (King of Scotland), Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (Odoardo)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
in Alan Curtis's scrupulously detailed performance, Joyce diDonato's gleaming legato and coloratura are upstaged by the elegance of Karina Gauvin's Ginevra. While diDonato offers recklessly inventive... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th May 2011
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Building a Library, January 2019, Recommended Recording
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The opening account of Schumann’s best known quartet, Op 41 No 3 in A minor, gives a good sense of the warmth and immediacy of Quartet Gerhard’s playing, but it’s Berg’s Lyric Suite that shows... — More…
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The playing by Quatuor Hermès intelligently illuminates the contrast of Ravel’s suave piquancy with Debussy’s riper, more rounded sounds, while Dutilleux’s sublimely suggestive Ainsi la nuit... — More…
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