Chamber, Duos, Violin & Piano Duos, Sibelius (composer)
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Childhood memories are summoned, plus people and places…Indeed, there’s so much playfulness and charm here that the listener might well pant for some extra ballast from meatier things. It comes... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
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New. Toscha Seidel American Columbia Recordings (1921-27)
Toscha Seidel, Harry Kaufman, Francesco Longo, Maurice Eisner, Charles Hackett, Arthur Loesser, Waldemar Lischowsky, Emanuel Bay
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Mischa Elman: the Complete Victor Recordings (1926-32)
Mischa Elman (violin), Unnamed Orchestra, The Victor Symphony Orchestra, Rosario Bourdon, Nathaniel Shilkret
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From start to finish Humphreys’s playing is a feast of flawless tuning, beautifully focused and coloured tone and rich characterisation. And there’s no mistaking how Joseph Tong’s accompanying,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, Chamber Choice
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James Ehnes - Homage
RecommendedCD/DVD tribute to 12 of the world’s finest instruments
James Ehnes (violin and viola) & Eduard Laurel (piano)
The icing on the cake is provided by the DVD, which shows how Ehnes achieves miracles at close hand, including his unconventional left-hand thumb extension and relatively firm bow-hold. Beautifully... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd February 2009
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2009, DVD of the Month
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Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto and Other Violin Works
Thomas Albertus Irnberger (violin), Michael Korstick, Doron Salomon
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Youthful passion occasionally pushes him to stylistic excess...but for most of the time he’s beauty incarnate and in perfect step with his composers’ various voices. He’s also blessed with a... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Grieg’s Second Sonata sounds gorgeously, openly melancholic. —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, Chamber Choice
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Special offer. The Sibelius Edition Volume 13 - Miscellaneous Works
RecommendedFolke Gräsbeck (piano), Andrew Barnett (glockenspiel), Harri Viitanen (1967 Marcussen organ of Helsinki Cathedral) Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Hannu Jurmu (tenor) & Johan Simberg (recitation)
Finnish Radio Orchestra, Tempera Quartet, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Dominante Choir & YL Male...
The final instalment in the Swedish label BIS’s Sibelius survey mops up the odds and ends. There’s an incredible range of material strewn across the four discs in this set. Much of it is superb,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th August 2011
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4 CDs
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These expert transfers by Paul ArdenTaylor feature her intensely poetic and emotionally penetrating 1945 account of the Sibelius Concerto, alongside a series of shorter items recorded the following... —
