Avie
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If you think of Korngold, you’ll be in the right area: lush harmonies, soaring melodies and an expert compositional technique. The Briggs Trio responds to the style with enormous affection,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018, Editor's Choice
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Thirty years ago, 'chamber orchestra' Beethoven was considered to be a mildly interesting eccentricity; nowadays it is practically de rigueur. The Chamber Orchestra of Europe blazed the trail.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2008, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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The Edge of Silence: Works for Voice by György Kurtág
RecommendedSusan Narucki (soprano), Donald Berman (piano), Curtis Macomber (violin), Nicholas Tolle (cimbalom), Kathryn Schulmeister (double bass)
...one of the finest examples of Kurtág’s vocal music I have encountered. Narucki’s probing intelligence is matched by a remarkable vocal talent, and the result is a triumph. All the assisting... —
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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Schubert: Trout Quintet, Waltzes, Lndler
Yann Dubost, Thymos Quartet, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (piano), Christoph Eschenbach
In this delightful recording, the limelight is shared between Christoph Eschenbach’s crystalline piano playing and the creamy string sound, underpinned by the rumbling, bouncing bass. The tempo... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2020, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances, Isle of the Dead & The Rock
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Petrenko master… of encouraging expressive phrasing in counterpoint; the woodwind rockings around the heartaching saxophone melody at the centre of the first dance are as important as the main... —
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Beethoven the Conquering Hero - Complete Works For Cello & Piano
Jennifer Kloetzel (cello), Robert Koenig (piano)
If only more cellists played like this – and at this level of ceaseless musicianship...And there is a true musical team at work here. Robert Koenig’s choice of a mellow-voiced Blüthner piano... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Crossing the Bar
Mika Stolzman (marimba), Richard Stoltzman (clarinet), Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Modern Orchestra Project
The vibe is relaxed, valuing melodicism above virtuosity, and featuring like-minded, genre-defying friends not least Stoltzman's clarinettist husband Richard. —
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Haydn: Cello Concertos, Vivaldi Concerto for Violin and Cello
Christoph Croisé (cello), Sherniyaz Mussakhan (violin)
Eurasian Soloists Chamber Orchestra
This conductor-less release from Avie manages to capture something too often lost in recordings of the early cello concerto repertoire: fun…Croisé plays with the benevolence of an 18th-century... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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Sonnerie elect to open this delectable recording with the bright, extrovert Concerto No 4, which Handel based on music he had rejected from his autograph of Alcina. Matthew Halls begins this... —
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Hadelich's refinement and excitement carry one through these very diverse works. —
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