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J S Bach - Flute Sonatas
Philippa Davies (flute), with Maggie Cole (harpsichord) & Alison McGillivray (cello)
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Schumann: Piano Trio No. 2, Kinderszenen & Piano Quartet
The Benvenue Fortepiano Trio: Monica Huggett (violin), Tanya Tomkins (cello), Eric Zivian (fortepiano), Adam LaMotte (viola)
it's in the Quartet that the Benvenue Fortepiano Trio is at its most convincing, the addition of viola player Adam LaMotte redressing that can elsewhere be a violin-heavy focus. The Scherzo... —
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Flights of Fantasy
Early Italian Chamber Music
Irish Baroque Orchestra, Monica Huggett (director/violin)
There’s always an electric jolt about Huggett’s gut-stringed violin, and she needs every surge of energy for the virtuoso tricks of 17th-century Italian and Italianate chamber music...Huggett’s... —
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Bach: Sonatas For Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord
Sarah Cunningham (viola da gamba), Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Closely miked, this new recording achieves a pleasing balance and integration of texture, with Cunningham carefully differentiating between leading and subsidiary passages in her part, and Richard... —
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I find nothing to criticize; these readings for me capture the spirit of Schubert’s piano style. His playing is at once natural and sympathetic, and blessedly free of artifice. —
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It would be difficult to imagine a more persuasive and committed performance than that given by these players. Likewise, the Schubert is delivered with dynamism, charm and finesse —
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Fauré's piano music is at last emerging in its full measure of energy and brilliance. Charles Owen buys enthusiastically into this truer picture of the music...On the technical front Owen is... —
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The Baroque music group give us sounds we don’t often associate with Bethlehem but are probably far closer to what was heard there: zingy harps, reedy winds and plenteous modality. At first... —
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Ija Mia: Music of the Sephardic Diaspora
John Hadfield, Ara Dinkjian, Tal Mashiach, Shane Shanahan, Zafer Tawil, Nina Stern, Daphna Mor, East of the River
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