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Concertos, Strauss, R (composer)
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A Golden Cello Decade, 1878-1888
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello), Connie Shih (piano), Olivia Jageurs (harp)
No cellist alive can match the eloquent intent of Steven Isserlis’s line. Every phrase he threads through the warm embrace of Connie Shih’s pianism is articulated and ‘breathed’ with the ardour... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th November 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2022, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Mozart & Strauss: Oboe Concertos
Cristina Gómez Godoy (oboe), West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim
Godoy’s tone has an exceptional purity and beauty, without a trace of narcissism, and her musicianship is as gifted as it gets...the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra’s contribution is state-of-the-art,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben & Burleske
Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Authoritative from the first bar’s fleshy bass, Antonio Pappano’s bel canto approach to Strauss’s mock-epic hero cultivates beauty of sound even in usually bombastically noisy stretches such... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Richard Strauss
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Wiener Symphoniker, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Petr Popelka, Seiji Ozawa
The Vienna Symphony is luxurious in the Concerto, against which Capuçon’s poise and precision contrast beautifully. There’s a mournful simplicity to the Sonata and the Piano Quartet channels... —
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Special offer. Richard Strauss: 'Aber der Richtige'
Violin Concerto & Miniatures
Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Foster
Steinbacher is predictably eloquent [in the song arrangements], the playing classy. But the violin itself struggles to project in what are already string-heavy orchestrations, at a tessitura... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2018
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R. Strauss: Don Quixote & Horn Concerto No. 2
RecommendedPierre Fournier (cello), Giusto Cappone (viola), Norbert Hauptmann (horn)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
The Berlin players clearly enjoy the orchestral effects Strauss calls for, including the bleating wind and brass in the episode where Don Quixote encounters a flock of sheep and mistakes them... —
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Building a Library, December 2020, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica
RecommendedJonathan Small (oboe), Nicholas Cox (clarinet), Alan Pendlebury (bassoon)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
Sheer heaven...remarkable performance —
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Building a Library, October 2014, First Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Momentum [2]: Korngold, Richard Strauss
Liya Petrova (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Duncan Ward, Alexandre Kantorow (piano)
No superficial gloss here, which is not to say that she doesn’t make an attractive sound – sure-footed, intensely sweet in her higher register and unfolding the central Romance in long, rhapsodic... —
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