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If we think we hear Bach at one moment, then Mahler at the next, and then Widmann himself, then we’d be right: it’s a bit like being presented with the entire range of German art music in one... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Composer of the Year
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Várjon moves swiftly between numbers, joining the puzzle-pieces without ever giving us the complete picture…but there’s no doubt that [his] connecting intelligence makes each set as a whole... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Recording of the Month
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Trio Mediaeval defend the corner for beautiful simplicity in this album —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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Godár: Mater
Iva Bittová (voice) & Miloš Valent (violin, viola)
Solamente Naturali & Bratislava Conservatory Choir, Marek Štryncl
To say that Vladímir Godár is a typical ECM discovery is certainly not to diminish either him or ECM. This Slovak composer uses a vocabulary in the works recorded here that will inevitably recall... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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András Schiff's Beethoven Sonata cycle… continues to be stimulating and provocative, always forcing one to hear such familiar music in a new light. As he approaches the final sonatas of the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2007, Instrumental Choice
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Symmetry, the cyclic evolution of a musical germ and the idea of birth in the midst of death: all are fundamental to this disc. Webern's motivically determined orchestration of the Ricercar... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2003, Editor's Choice
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This is a landmark recording and a courageous venture. It's probably the first devoted to Machaut's motets, containing no fewer than 18 of the 23 that survive. It's certainly the first to present... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2004, Editor's Choice
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Zimmermann - Canto di Speranza
Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Thomas Demenga (cello), Andreas Schmidt (bass), Gerd Böckmann, Robert Hunger-Bühler (speakers)
WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Heinz Holliger
The synthesis of Bartók, Schoenberg and Stravinsky in the sparky Violin Concerto of 1950, played with expressive intelligence by Thomas Zehetmair, seems light years away from the deep pessimism... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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Konstantia Gourzi: Anajikon
Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), William Youn (piano), Minguet Quartett (string quartet), Ulrich Isfort (violin), Annette Reisinger (violin), Aroa Sorin (viola), Matthias Diener (cello), Lucerne Academy Orchestra, Konstantia Gourzi
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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The first movement of the big C major Sonata is conceived very much on orchestral lines with a dramatic variety of colouring and characterisation, as well as an unexpected use of the sustaining... —
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Building a Library, December 2010, First Choice
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