Browse: Concertos, Quadruple Concertos
This page lists all classical recordings in genre: Concertos » Quadruple Concertos.
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Schumann: Konzertstück for four horns
RecommendedMarkus Maskuniitty (horn), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
The playing of Maskuniitty and his three colleagues is simply superb, with exemplary balance between them and the thrilling arpeggio swoops in the last movement. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2019, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Concerto
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Vivaldi: L'estro armonico - 12 concerti, Op. 3
RecommendedRachel Podger (violin & director)
Brecon Baroque
There's a sense of Podger and her players examining and analysing every note in their preparation, deciding on its role, and placing it carefully back into context, without ever disturbing the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th March 2015
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Concerto Winner
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Building a Library, March 2020, Recommended Recording
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Mozart: Wind Concertos
Timothy Jones (horn), Olivier Stankiewicz (oboe), Andrew Marriner (clarinet), London Symphony Orchestra, Jaime Martín
You would expect the principal woodwind players of a team in the London Symphony Orchestra’s league to perform at stellar technical level. Even more striking, and highly appealing besides, is... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, Concerto Choice
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Mozart’s work itself is naturally the finest of all, notwithstanding doubts as to its authorship. It gets a performance as fine as any you’re likely to hear…The Munich Chamber Orchestra provide... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
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Record Review, 19th May 2018, Recording of the Week
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Vivaldi: L'estro armonico - 12 concerti, Op. 3 RecommendedIsabella Longo, Enrico Casazza, Raffaello Negri (violin), Mauricio Naddeo (violoncello)
L'estro armonico, Fabio Biondi (violin and direction)
No other set of Vivaldi's concertos contains the sheer variety on display in L'estro armonico. The catalogue has seldom been without a decent recording of these ceaselessly fascinating works,... — More…
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Building a Library, December 1999, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2020, Also recommended
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Beethoven & Mozart: Quintets for Piano and Wind
RecommendedWalter Gieseking, Dennis Brain
Philharmonia Wind Quartet, Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
There have never been any doubts about these performances. The horn playing in the Sinfoniaconcertante is unsurpassable and in the quintets Gieseking's lightness and his clarity and sense of... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2007, Historic Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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What's Next Vivaldi?
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
No one cooks up a Vivaldian storm like Patricia Kopatchinskaja. The opening movement of La tempesta di mare is a churning cauldron of tempestuous fury that would surely have terrified Poseidon... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Concerto
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These felicitous, multi-instrument works show Georg Philipp's endlessly fertile and capricious imagination...Celebrating its 35th birthday this year, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin has led... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Schumann - Complete Symphonies
RecommendedRoger Montgomery, Susan Dent, Gavin Edwards, Robert Maskell (horns)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
The first point to note is how much more comprehensive this is than previous cycles, even the outstanding RCA set of period performances from Roy Goodman and the Hanover Band.
Gardiner offers... — More…Awards:
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Building a Library, November 2006, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Mozart y Mambo: La Bella Cubana
Sarah Willis (horn), Jonathan Kelly (oboe), Wenzel Fuchs (clarinet), Stefan Schweigert (bassoon), Harold Madrigal Frías (soloist)
Havana Lyceum Orchestra, The Sarahbanda, José Antonio Méndez Padrón
Willis plays Mozart’s Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat, K495, demonstrating her gift for characterful and radiant solo performance. The Havana Lyceum’s orchestral playing matches hers with their... — More…
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