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Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Souvenir de Florence, Andante Cantabile United Strings of Europe, Julian Azkoul
So many inspired melodies, ravishingly harmonised, on a single disc...The inwardness of the ‘Elegie’ and the crescendos from pp to ff are superbly done..Azkoul’s penchant for rare transcriptions... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, Orchestral Choice
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 55 RecommendedHana Blažíková (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
There's a striking transparency in even the densest of counterpoint...Over 18 years Suzuki seems to have subtly changed his relationship with Bach, from a reverential approach to confident familiarity.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th November 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Editor's Choice
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Two intriguing 1960s symphonies by Swedish composer Allan Pettersson. Christian Lindberg elicits playing of clarity and conviction in the questing No. 5 and brooding No. 7. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Nouveauté
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Fröst Plays Weber Clarinet Concertos
Martin Fröst (clarinet)
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
The Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst plays with admirable virtuosity and smoothness of tone, and it’s hard to imagine the music better performed. — More…
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Oramo certainly knows how to generate and sustain a good current. Both of these symphonies are conceived as strong, purposeful wholes...Oramo also has a truly admirable way with phrasing Nielsen's... — More…
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Heroines of Love and Loss vocal chamber music from the 17th century
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello) & Jonas Nordberg (lute / theorbo / archlute)
Ruby Hughes’s soprano has an effortless beauty: pliant, subtly expressive, never forced. She captures the chaste fervour of the sacred works…Brinkmann and Nordberg proffer aptly spontaneous... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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On a technical level this must, I think, be the finest recording the work has received. Every note is audible - and the achievement of the orchestra (still more extraordinary than that of the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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Stabat Mater Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor and Director), Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Theatre of Early Music
Emma Kirkby at her most serene is matched by Taylor as if they were two faces of a single musical entity. With first-rate surround-sound recording and a warm ambience, this is a disc not to... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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Villa-Lobos - Chôros Volume 2 Fabio Zanon (guitar), Dante Yenque, Ozéas Arantes & Samuel Hamzem (horn) & Darrin Coleman Milling (bass trombone), Linda Bustani and Ilan Rechtman (piano)
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, John Neschling
How many Chôros are there? Fourteen numbered examples (with two claimed as “lost”), two Chôrosbis, a Wind Quintet en forme de Chôros and a con- cluding (!) choral-and-orchestral “Introduction... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2008, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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No complaints about the expertise and fluency of the Zimmermanns’ playing. Their approach to dynamics is refreshingly flexible, and all three players bring a graceful approach to ornamentation…But... — More…
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Chamber
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Instrumental
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