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the most striking aspects of Podger’s playing throughout this recital (compared to most 20th-century ‘golden-agers’), is her enhanced range of tone and articulation, her vastly more flexible... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Recording of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Instrumental
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Instrumental
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Beethoven: Sonatas For Violin and Piano Op. 12 No.1, Op. 24 & Op. 96
RecommendedRachel Podger (violin), Christopher Glynn
Listening to Rachel Podger (on the ‘Mauri’ Strad) and Christopher Glynn (on an 1840 Erard) is like experiencing the music in the clear light of day for the first time. Gone are those texturally... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th March 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, Chamber Choice
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' & Coriolan Overture Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
this is generally a fine and well-recorded performance, with a welcome degree of expressive flexibility in such moments as the opening movement’s gentle second subject. — More…
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C.P.E. Bach: Sonatas For Keyboard & Violin RecommendedRachel Podger (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Their music-making is infectiously spontaneous yet tellingly ‘considered’ – seamless rapport and impeccably-judged articulation delighting in a stream of illuminating felicities. CPE Bach’s... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Fischer… offers a sparkling performance of the popular overture to Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers, and his account of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is impressive, with the major-mode episodes... — More…
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Of the two performances, the Fifth Symphony is particularly successful, Its first movement, taken at a real lick, has a tremendous atmosphere of excitement and coiled tension…There’s much to... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Fischer finds more mystery in the slow introduction to the first movement of the Fourth Symphony than many other conductors...And it gets better and better: there's a beautiful, singing quality... — More…
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Nice performances, stunning recording. — More…
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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 & Walton: Serenade for Strings
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
Arrangements for string orchestra of works originally written for string quartet are not uncommon, especially in the cases of Beethoven and Schubert… But in the amazing scherzo, with its huge... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2006, Disc of the Month
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Using period instruments, the Amsterdam are particularly illuminating in the early Op. 20/4, pinpointing the bold rhythmic ambiguity of the Menuetto alla zingarese and the strongly driven energy... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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