Wigmore Hall Live
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…the players capture beautifully the mix of grace and jokiness in the Mozart Minuet, and in the Mendelssohn they apply just enough rubato to give colour and meaning, without ever interrupting... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Newcomer of the Year
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Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets Volume 4
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, on 1 November 2014
Elias String Quartet
This review could be very brief: buy these two discs! [The Elias Quartet] are simply astounding, in the freshness, intensity, assurance and seeming spontaneity of their playing…[Bitlloch] cultivates... —
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Record Review, 30th December 2017, Recording of the Week
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These musicians are different. Not radically different but enough to notice that their style of playing, though highly disciplined, isn't cuttingly concentrated. Then there is Haydn the musical... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
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This is an extraordinarily subtle performance of Schubert's first great cycle. Wonderfully recorded, with an ideal balance between soloist and pianist, it leaves you wondering, at times, who... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, Editor's Choice
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The superbly modulated range of expression, the grasp of the work as a whole organism and the sense of lively musical partnership gives this performance [of Op. 96] a special authority —
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Songs by Schubert 3
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, on 15 September 2014
Ian Bostridge (tenor) & Julius Drake (piano)
The tenor puts together a stimulating mixture of the familiar and unfamiliar, and is supported with unerring sensitivity and skill at the piano by Julius Drake…At no stage, either, does one... —
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Bostridge’s commitment to Schubert remains exceptional, as does, too, that of his marvellous colleague Julius Drake at the piano – a player of complete technical authority, and surely the tenor’s... —
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The opening Schubert group demonstrates the baritone's natural and unaffected delivery - an ability to hold words and notes together in one single gesture - and his finely tuned vocalism, founded... —
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Both singer and accompanist are on far better form, for me, than they were in Winterreise...These are direct, uncluttered accounts of songs of varying quality, and the deepest - 'Am Meer', 'Der... —
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