Evil Penguin
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He invites us to listen again and again, deepening the game each time. Beghin’s playing is tensile, rubato and pacing beautifully controlled, like the string of a kite. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Instrumental
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The Zemlinsky Quartet (like the Alban Berg Quartet before them) build this account along large-scale lines, both in terms of assaying its overall structure, and imparting a formal logic and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2026, Chamber Choice
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Wispelwey’s G major repatriation [of the First Brahms Sonata] has reintroduced all the original’s soft, autumnal intimacy, further offset by the cello’s own more dulcet tones. It’s a winner,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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These new accounts are exemplary in all respects, and beautifully recorded, too, by the adventurous Belgian label, Evil Penguin. Recommended. —
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With a tangible bloom to the recorded sound, this quartet and their indefatigable cello partner Raphaël Feye are musicians to watch. —
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J.s. Bach: Sonatas For Violoncello Piccolo and Fortepiano
Alessandro Deljavan (piano), Federico Bracalente
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Zazzo's voice is pure, strong and individual....For the most part, [he] is a convincing storyteller. Indeed, he fits Burgon's cycle and Boyle's Two Love Lyrics into a cohesive, highly satisfying... —
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Wispelwey and Paolo Giacometti offer appropriately imperious performances of the first three moments and they’re admirably light in the affable finale…these are fine performances, and if you’re... —
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