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CD, Ysaÿe (composer)
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This is simply superb in every way…Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien are typically outstanding throughout, playing with exceptional control without ever forsaking spontaneity…Make no mistake,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st March 2019
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Record Review, 9th March 2019, Disc of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Chamber
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Winner - Chamber Music
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Dueñas’s performance favours the Concerto’s abundant lyrical qualities. In the magical Larghetto she combines unaffected simplicity with rich sentiment while her account of the ‘Rondo’ is certainly... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th May 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Debut Solo Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Young Talent of the Year
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Her tone is rich and beautiful, never losing its beauty in double and triple stops. Her technique is astonishing without being the primary focus at any given moment. She is exceptionally lyrical... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st July 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Winner - Solo Instrument
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Solo Instrumental Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Recording of the Year (and Instrumental)
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Ehnes’s breathtaking virtuosity is subsumed entirely into the musicality of these performances, bubbling to the surface only for passages such as the swashbuckling defiance that concludes the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Instrumental
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she's up there with the best...there's much of the tonal and dynamic palette that this music needs, characterising the forceful and passionate, as well as the shadowy and understated. She has... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2015, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Ysaÿe’s works traverse a staggering range of violin techniques – a virtuostic challenge which Khachatryan meets in interpretations of grit and flair. Throughout, there’s a feeling of grown-on-the-vine... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2024, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Perhaps the major discovery is the Violin Concerto by the exiled Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik...Quite simply, Kopatchinskaja lives and breathes every note, enabling her and the excellent... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2025, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Grażyna Bacewicz; Eugène Ysaÿe; George Enescu: Music For Strings
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
At its centre [the Bacewicz] is a searing slow movement, rich and haunting, but the rest of the work crackles with energy, and the Sinfonia of London (at times divided into 17 parts) under John... —
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If we needed any further proof that Sueye Park's intellectual programming muscles as are as strongly supple as her physical ones, her fifth album for BIS, for solo violin, firmly settles it. —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2025, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2025, Editor's Choice
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The Romantic Cello Concerto, Vol. 6: Ysaye & Vieuxtemps
Alban Gerhardt (cello)
Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Josep Caballé-Domenech
The elegance that Vieuxtemps displayed in his violin concertos is on show here, with graceful melodies, and some more showy passages. These are never gratuitous, however, and are expertly written... —
