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CD, Dohnányi (composer)
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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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Dohnányi: Piano Quintets & String Quartet No. 2
RecommendedMarc-André Hamelin (piano)
Takács Quartet
The Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin capture the freshness and vitality of this youthful work to perfection, its outer movements and Scherzo projected here with all the necessary exhilaration... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Chamber Choice
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Diapason d’Or, February 2020, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Chamber
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The Nash Ensemble’s high voltage interpretation [of the Third Quartet] serves the music well, having tremendous physical impact and bringing an unusual, urgent intensity… The Nash Ensemble triumphantly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The most substantial item...is undoubtedly the suite Ruralia Hungarica...It's an enormously attractive work, by turns exhilarating...and rhapsodic...Roscoe relishes these contrasts in mood with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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Childhood memories are summoned, plus people and places…Indeed, there’s so much playfulness and charm here that the listener might well pant for some extra ballast from meatier things. It comes... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
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All in all, this is an intelligently devised, brilliantly executed and warmly recorded disc, raising hopes that the Notos Quarttett can come up trumps again with further worthwhile discoveries. — More…
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 6 - Dohnányi
Martin Roscoe (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Fedor Glushchenko
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This fourth and final volume in Martin’ Roscoe’s survey of the complete piano music is a reminder of Dohnányi’s own value…These warm performances of the Suite in the Olden Style and the Six... — More…
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In the first volume of this fascinating survey, Martin Roscoe devised a programme that incorporates music from different periods in Dohnanyi's career. By contrast, much of the present disc focuses... — More…
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[in the Rhapsodies] Dohnányi musters a highly expressive language, contrasting the dark and melancholic introversion in the second and fourth rhapsodies with the more playful and heroic moods... — More…
