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Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
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Martin Fröst (clarinet), with Janine Jansen (violin), Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), with Roland Pöntinen (piano), with Torleif Thedéen (cello) & Roland Pöntinen (piano)
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Fröst revels in the deep-plush velvet of his chalumeau regions - and, indeed, sustains this timbre throughout the instrument's register...the ensemble creates cutting-edge rhythmic urgency, and... — More…
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Offer, Soirée
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Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Sir Simon Rattle (piano), Rahel Rilling (violin), Wolfram Brandl (violin), Yulia Deyneka (viola), David Adorjan (cello), Andrew Marriner (clarinet)
There is some lovely singing from Kožená, whose fawn-tinted mezzo retains its attractive quality from her earliest discs…She sings the two Brahms collections well, especially the Ophelia Songs,... — More…
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Brahms - Clarinet Sonatas & Trio
Martin Fröst (clarinet), Roland Pöntinen (piano), Torleif Thedéen (cello)
…the young Swede Martin Fröst plays with elegant phrasing and beautiful, even produced tone… In the two sonatas, he's perfectly matched by his compatriot Roland Pöntinen in performances which... — More…
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New arrangements result in gorgeously warm and intimate music making … performed with great ardour and exemplary clarity of texture. — More…
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Whatever the WDR Chamber Players’ tone may lack in grit is made up for in warmth and clarity…the WDR musicians play with generous legato yet dig into the phrases in a way that draws one just... — More…
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Hearing these two E minor symphonies side by side proved far more stimulating than I anticipated. The orchestral playing is absolutely first-class and Hrůša’s conception of the music is totally... — More…
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Plowright delivers this highly charged musical argument with tremendous momentum, but is careful to follow Brahms's meticulous pedal marks, thus ensuring that none of the full-blooded textures... — More…
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Offer, Brahms: Violin Concerto & Double Concerto
Julia Fischer (violin), Daniel Muller-Schott (cello)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg
Conductors often become strangely inhibited when conducting Schoenberg’s masterly rethink, keen, no doubt, to point up its myriad instrumental subtleties. Claudio Vandelli goes in the opposite... — More…
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Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 & Tragic Overture
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London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Gergiev produces a gripping, architecturally secure account of the First Symphony: his rather ponderous tempo for the first-movement Allegro imparts a sort of baleful inevitability to its progress,... — More…
