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Offer, Telemann: Ino & Late Works Christina Landshamer, Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
This disc offers a taste of the ‘Spätlese’ (the ‘late harvest’ ) of Telemann’s career: works that show the octogenarian never lost his youthful spirit and joie de vivre...Landshamer delivers... — More…
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 'Babi Yar'
RecommendedOleg Tsibulko (bass)
Russian National Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
This beautifully engineered studio recording under Kirill Karabits has all the necessary adrenaline to keep the listener fully engaged. Karabits is particularly effective in negotiating the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th July 2020
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Rachmaninov & Prokofiev: Works for Cello and Piano
Johannes Moser (cello) & Andrei Korobeinikov (piano)
Johannes Moser and Andrei Korobeinikov bring both muscle and imagination to these two epic Russian sonatas — More…
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Schubert - Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Volume 2
RecommendedJulia Fischer (violin/piano) & Martin Helmchen (piano)
They give a magnificent account of this inspired work [the F major Fantasy]...It's a challenging piece...yet Fischer and Helmchen present as fine as any account on disc...They are a marvellous... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th May 2010
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Chamber Finalist
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Dvorák & Szymanowski - Violin Concertos
RecommendedArabella Steinbacher (violin)
Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Marek Janowski
…in a haunting performance of Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 1 the solo part seems to float in over a lush orchestra. Steinbacher's tone is sweet, her playing poised - in satisfying contrast... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2013, Recommended
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2010, Editor's Choice
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Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, etc.
Christian Tetzlaff & Nicolai Lugansky
Russian National Orchestra, Kent Nagano
These are stimulating versions of two favourite concertos, which take a fresh interpretative approach. Nikolai Lugansky's conception is spacious, with pianist and conductor taking time to relish... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2004, Editor's Choice
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CANTATA - yet can I hear... Handel, Vivaldi, and Bach
Bejun Mehta (countertenor)
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Mehta’s voice remains light and graceful, and his general ability to move around the small notes is only occasionally compromised by untidiness. The period-instrument orchestra’s flautist, Christoph... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Nouveauté
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Mozart - Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 4
Julia Fischer (violin)
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg
Julia Fischer shows real poise and elegance in Mozart violin concertos — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2005, Orchestral Choice
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Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 & The Poem of Ecstasy
Russian National Orchestra & Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory, Mikhail Pletnev
there is a good deal which is captivating in Mikhail Pletnev's excellent performance: in the thistledown Scherzo, the Russian National Orchestra demonstates polished and tight ensemble playing... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Editor's Choice
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As Julia Fischer explains in the booklet-notes to this, her first CD, she has an abiding love of the Khachaturian Concerto, a work she found impossible to sell to concert-promoters. The freshness... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2005, Editor's Choice
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