CD, Ligeti (composer)
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With their exhilarating brilliance and mesmerising beauty, these pieces have captured the imagination of players and audiences alike...These works are here to stay, in the distinguished line... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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This is an achievement on a pretty spectacular new level, and the range of musical sensibility she demonstrates here is vast...her rhythmic sense [in the Ligeti] keeps the music aloft and totally... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2024, Insturmental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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A supremely intelligent, deeply feeling artist of the first order. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Instrumental
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Special offer. György Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 4
Marmen Quartet
They seem to have assimilated the music into their cells, performing it with an energetic vitality and colour that is all special effects...The group offers high-pixel definition of character,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2025, Chamber Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Winner - Chamber
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Plaisirs illuminés
Veress - Ginastera - Coll
Camerata Bern (chamber ensemble), Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Thomas Kaufmann, Marko Milenkovic, Sonja Starke, Suyeon Kang, Sol Gabetta (cello), Käthi Steuri
Two threads run through this adventurous disc – the spirit of Béla Bartók and the Camerata Bern’s prowess – but the force of personality at the centre of it all comes from the violinist Patricia... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Concerto
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The main interpretative obstacle in the First Quartet is how to gauge the progression of its first three movement so the finale is a culmination without obliterating that went before. The Belcea... —
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Diapason d’Or, May 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
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Ligeti: Violin Concerto - Concert Românesc - Piano Concerto
Isabelle Faust (violin), Martial Gauthier, Carole Roth, Robin Michael (cello), Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (piano), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Others have made more of the essentially lyrical aspect of [the Violin Concerto], but Isabelle Faust's dynamic and dramatic approach is very exciting, and matched by the energy in the orchestra…A... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Editor's Choice
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The shifts from unsettling ellis island Kurtág to the comforting, tonal minimalism of Monk and Mingus effectively illustrate a profound journey but it's in the Bartók that Hamos really flies,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Editor's Choice
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Israeli violinist Nurit Stark brings together works by four composers of the same pedagogical lineage. Her violin tone is pure, but never pale, admirably capturing the otherworldly eeriness... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Instrumental
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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... —
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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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