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Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos & Sinfonia Concertante
Rachel Barton Pine (violin), Matthew Lipman (viola)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
Barton Pine's set of Mozart Violin Concerts opens with No. 4: an expertly controlled tutti from Neville Marriner sets the stage for the solo entry, but almost immediately there's a feeling of... —
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The Brook Street Band play all the works indisputably by Handel as well as those generally accepted as part of the canon…The music, dare I say it, is on occasion uneven in quality, but the finest... —
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The playing is admirably neat - intonation virtually flawless, ensemble taut, and decorations stylish. —
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…perhaps the most striking playing of all comes in the Brahms where Haefliger delivers an interpretation of formidable granitic strength that nonetheless manages to encapsulate the work's more... —
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[the Rhenish] is well-paced with a particularly effective Scherzo and some very stylish string playing. It's adventuring through the Gál, though, that brings the best from Woods and his musicians.... —
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On the evidence of this recording debut, Romanian pianist Alexandra Silocea is both musically tasteful and clearly devoted to Prokofiev's Sonatas. One rarely hears Prokofiev's often fiendish... —
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Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante K364
Nobuko Imai (viola)
Het Brabants Orkest, Philippe Graffin (violin and director)
In the Sinfonia Concertante… Graffin and Nobuko Imai steal in perfectly for their first phrase. …they are clearly listening to each other, and responding. Imai's burnished tone is, as ever,... —