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The album makes a welcome change from the endless recycling of clarinet warhorses elsewhere in the catalogue. Plaudits to Sony for giving Fröst freedom to traverse this breadth of repertoire,... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber
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Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra | Metamorphosen
Paavo Jarvi NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
there's no doubt that Metamorphosen can be approached for its sheer beauty. In that regard I’ve never heard a previous recording that so clarified all the string lines. By comparison with the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, Editor's Choice
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Verdi: Aida
RecommendedErich Leinsdorf, London Symphony Orchestra, Plácido Domingo (tenor), Ruggero Raimondi (bass vocal), Grace Bumbry (mezzo-soprano), Leontyne Price (soprano), Hans Sotin (bass vocal), John Alldis Choir, Bruce Brewer (tenor), Joyce Mathis (soprano), Sherrill Milnes (baritone)
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Grammy Awards, 14th Awards (1971), Best Opera Recording
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Newcomer of the Year
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Fröst is an outstanding musician and every operatic roulade and embellishment is expertly turned with the precision of a master craftsman...Do they convince as concertos? Not especially, but... —
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Instrumentalist of the Year
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Glenn Gould: The Schwarzkopf Tapes
RecommendedElisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) & Glenn Gould (piano)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann
Not a collaboration, more a collision. Schwarzkopf’s fruity soprano fights to a draw against Gould’s stern minimalism...The stylistic clash — both frightful and fascinating — is immediately... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th September 2012
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Weber - Clarinet Concertos
Fabio di Casola (clarinet)
Chamber Philharmonic of St Petersburg, Juri Gilbo
…Fabio di Càsola's performances are dazzling and Juri Gilbo's persuasive partnership in slow movements is romantic in the best Weberian operatic style. The twirly-whirly Menuetto capriccio... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2009, Editor's Choice
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Joshua Bell conducts Beethoven Symphonies No. 4 & 7
The Academy Of St Martin In The Fields, Joshua Bell
These are splendidly alert performances, responding to every nuance in the music, and they made me listen to Beethoven with fresh ears. Particularly impressive is the pianissimo playing Bell... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, Orchestral Choice
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The themes of reconciliation, empathy and peace are subtly in evidence throughout the first part of the programme...Despite his associations with more heavyweight Austrian composers, Barenboim... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd February 2014
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The programme is expressly devised so that Kermes can shed new light on 19th-century vocal writing, applying the stylistic approaches she has developed in music of earlier eras: her trademark... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Recital
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