Aeon
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Special offer. Dusapin: Quatuor VI Hinterland & Quator VII OpenTime
Arditti Quartet, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Both pieces reaffirm Dusapin’s quartet cycle as among the most significant now emerging. —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Contemporary
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this First Quartet is approachable and fascinating...[the Second] is quintessential Gerhard...This is a fine disc, superbly played and well worth purchasing but I suspect that a little prior... —
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Special offer. Grieg: Peer Gynt
Alex Jennings, Haydn Gwynne, Derek Jacobi, Dietrich Henschel, Inger Dam-Jensen, Sophie Koch
Ensemble vocal le Motet de Genève & Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Guillaume Tourniaire
the best complete version of Grieg’s theatre music… Tourniaire has intuited and delivered a true Grieg style from his orchestra, alert, light, swift but not afraid to punch home the ironies... —
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Special offer. Beethoven: The Late String Quartets Op. 130 & Grosse Fuge Op. 133
Brentano String Quartet
The expressive badinage between players, the enthusiastic rough and tumble in the opening Allegro with just a smidgen of tonal darkening for the second subject, not to mention the occasional... —
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Special offer. Foccroulle: Works for Historic Organs
Bernard Foccroulle (organ), Alice Foccroulle (soprano), Lambert Colson (cornetto)
It helps that they are all situated in spacious, atmospheric acoustics and that they are exquisitely voiced. The main work is Spiegel (2005), which consists of six verses 'in dialogue' with... —
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Special offer. Mahler & Wagner - Lieder
Transcribed for chamber ensemble by Christian Favre
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano)
Quatuor Schumann
What a revelation this disc actually turns out to be. Lott's voice brings wonderful subtlety and intensity to the music, Isolde's death scene in particular. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2008, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. L Couperin & Froberger: Works for Harpsichord
Jovanka Marville (harpsichord Louis Denis 1658)
This disc claims to be a showcase for a recently restored harpsichord, and a fine job it makes of it. Jovanka Marville plays stylishly and with a languid touch that seems to bring out the instrument's... —
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Special offer. Berio: Naturale & Chemins II and Feldman: Rothko Chapel & The Viola in my Life II
Christoph Desjardins (viola)
Collegium Novum Zurich, Basler Madrigalisten, Jonathan Nott
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