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Infinite Voyage
RecommendedBarbara Hannigan (soprano), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
Emerson String Quartet
Much the finest experience comes in Schoenberg’s quartet, where the Emerson Quartet ’s playing masterfully combines forensic technical precision and expressive warmth. And Hannigan’s identif... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th September 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Paul Hindemith / Alfred Schnittke
RecommendedAnna Gourari (piano), Orchestra Dell Svizzera Italiana / Markus Poschner
She extracts a dizzying range of colours from Hindemith’s ingeniously constructed score...The string section of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana under Markus Poschner responds incisively... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2024, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Each is played with terrific dexterity and fluidity. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Chamber
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New. Harbingers of Exile
Songs from the In-Between
Aleksandra Myslek, Florian Störtz (bass-baritone)
Certainly Kahn couldn't wish for better advocacy than he gets here. Störtz sings with a natural intelligence, secure and persuasive throughout, and Myslek brings out the impressive variety and... —
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Hindemith: Clarinet Concerto, Clarinet Quartet & Clarinet Sonata
Sharon Kam (clarinet), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Cohen, Enrico Pace (piano)
The couplings are, to my mind, even finer than the concerto…I do not know of a stronger rival for the Quartet currently available. —
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Chamber Music
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Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 2, Hindemith: String Quartet No. 4 & Walton: String Quartet
RecommendedHollywood String Quartet
Although many accounts of the Prokofiev have appeared over the years, none has approached, let alone surpassed, the Hollywood version of the Second Quartet. The same would no doubt apply to... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Müller-Schott ends this formidable unaccompanied recital with Pablo Casals’s Song of the Birds, played with the intense focus, the sense of line and the gleaming purity of tone that characterises... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Solo Instrumental Recital (Cello)
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Trio Zimmermann - A Retrospective
Trio Zimmermann, Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Christian Poltéra (cello)
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Hindemith: Sonatas for viola & piano and for viola alone
Kim Kashkashian (viola), Robert Levin (piano)
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 - Hindemith: Violin Concerto
Alexandra Tirsu (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
This is an exquisite debut album from Alexandra Tirsu: fierce, intense and emotionally charged. Shostakovich emerges anguished, ironic, deeply understood, tempered by moments of tender beauty... —
