SACD, Saint-Saëns (composer)
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Orchestral players will travel long distances to make music with [Wilson] and this recording shows why…It’s far from being all noise, the woodwind in particular being exquisitely agile…All the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 3, 4 & 5 'L'Égyptien'
Alexandre Kantorow (piano)
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
It is no hardship to review yet another Saint-Saëns piano concerto recording when it is as good as this…Believe me, [Kantorow] is the real deal – a firebreathing virtuoso with a poetic charm... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Alexandre Kantorow (piano)
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
The virtuosity is breathtaking, yet nothing is hard-pressed, for the younger Kantorow has that hallmark of the greatest performers of always appearing to have plenty of time...In short, this... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, Concerto Choice
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Schallplattenkritik Quarterly Critics Choice, Autumn 2022, Orchestral Music & Concertos
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Here’s an archetypal recital programme which every emerging violin virtuoso would dream of recording, though few recent contenders have done so with such unerring assurance and mastery as Johan... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2024, Chamber Choice
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Saint-Saëns: Violin Works
Cecilia Zilliacus (violin), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano), Stephen Fitzpatrick (harp)
Cecilia Zilliacus is more than up to the challenge. Her lightly-worn virtuosity and crystalline phrasing ensures nothing feels forced in the First Sonata...With everything captured in superb... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, Chamber Choice
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It’s ravishingly done by the Sitkovetsky Trio, who more than inhabit the scope of Ravel’s expressive language and ambition in his attempt to expand the form’s musical language. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Chamber
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Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
and other works
Truls Mørk (cello), Louis Lortie (piano), Hélène Mercier (piano) & Alasdair Malloy (glass harmonica)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
[Mørk's] noble command is ideal in the darkly blazing, virtuosic second concerto. One of our great lyric instrumentalists, he gives a deeply-felt, but never over-dramatised performance, a piercing... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2016, Editor's Choice
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Isserlis and regular partner Connie Shih are perfect hosts, ensuring it all flows with deceptive ease, setting the scene with the wistful nobility of Hahn’s Variations chantantes sur un air... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2021
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The organ has a really gutsy, symphonic core... Jan Kraybill... plays with considerable verve and a feeling both for colour and for the grand gesture. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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To encounter a programme featuring some of the core works in the horn repertoire played on historically appropriate instruments with such effortless musicianship and technical ease really takes... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Chamber
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