Chamber, Mendelssohn (composer)
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The Takács Quartet has sustained an admiring following through its changes of personnel down the years, and their exceptional precision of tuning and ensemble, especially at full-tilt Mendelssohnian... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th November 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
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They’re in excellent sympathy, yet each has individual qualities to bring to the musical table. Denk is supremely fiery at the piano. Bell offsets him with wonderfully consistent, bright and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2024, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Chamber
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Mendelssohn’s Variations Concertantes packs a lot of variety into its nine minutes...The players here capture its changing moods, and the plangent song-like quality of the Assai Tranquillo,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Chamber Music Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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In short, this highly recommendable collection represents a model of imaginative and provocative programming. —
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Both [Op. 44 quartets] have long first movements – genial in the D major, more plangent and yearning in the E minor - and it’s a measure of the performances that they capture these moods with... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, Chamber Choice
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assurance and engagement are fully evident here, and it's not just in the response to the variety of tone and timbre asked for, but in the care over intonation - always a potential problem in... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, November 2018, Also Recommended
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2015, Winner - Musique de Chambre
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Recorded in the warm, generous acoustic of Schloss Elmau, this meeting of two flagship quartets sounds less like a joint venture than eight players sharing a single imagination...Few octet recordings... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th January 2026
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Orchestra/Ensemble of the Year
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Clean playing from both performers, with light pedalling from Cédric Tiberghien, deals honestly with the two early sonatas and their engaging mixture of Classical and Romantic materials. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet
RecommendedJulian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen, Christian Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Rachel Roberts, Tanja Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
There is much to enjoy in this highly perfumed Schubert disc…Prégardien’s relatively light tenor makes the most of the intimacy to which these brief masterpieces are well suited…At the piano,... —
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Diapason d’Or, November 2021, Nouveauté
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Building A Library, March 2022, Also Recommended
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A Lionel Tertis Celebration
RecommendedTimothy Ridout (viola), Frank Dupree (piano), James Baillieu (piano)
From imposing sonatas to salon bonbons, these recordings constitute a deft salute not just to Tertis the man and multifaceted musician, but also to an enduring legacy which lives on in distinguished... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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