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Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621
RecommendedMark Padmore (Tito), Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Vitellia), Bernarda Fink (Sesto), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Annio), Sunhae Im (Servilia) & Sergio Foresti (Publio)
RIAS Kammerchor & Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
A high-voltage performance with vivid characterisations — More…
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Building a Library, September 2006, First Choice
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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If you like your Mozart taut and urgent, with no concessions to Mozartian ‘charm’, you should find these brilliantly executed performances as riveting as I do. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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the sheer range of Petersen's soprano and her interests enables her to compel and convince as much in 1821 Schubert as in German composer Manfred Trojahn's settings from 2008...Most fascinating... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Vocal Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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Schubert: Piano Trios Opp. 99 & 100
Andreas Staier (fortepiano Christopher Clarke (1996) after Conrad Graf, Vienna 1827), Daniel Sepec (violin Lorenzo Storioni, Cremona 1780) & Roel Dieltiens (cello Marten Cornelissen (1992) after Stradivarius)
the players catch just the right Schubertian balance of poise and profundity … There is never any lack of momentum … There’s plenty of colour, from subtly glassy on-the-bridge effects to a full-on... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Chamber Choice
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Diapason d’Or, November 2016, d'Or
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…trio Wanderer…approach Schubert not so much as an early Romantic, but rather as a fantastically imaginative and generous Classicist… The sense of sparkling, intimate exchange between the three... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2016, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, Chamber Choice
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Beethoven: Violin Sonatas & Piano Trios
RecommendedDaniel Sepec (violin) & Andreas Staier (fortepiano), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Underpinned by the musicianship of Andreas Staier, these recordings are real classics. Sepec is using Beethoven's own violin. — More…
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Building a Library, December 2014, First Choice
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Haydn: Keyboard Concertos Hob XVIII
RecommendedAndreas Staier (fortepiano Monika May, Marburg 1986, after Walter Vienna 1785)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz
Many concertos are attributed to Haydn but these three are undisputedly authentic. The keyboard part in No 4 falls in a narrow compass; Andreas Staier introduces variety by ornamenting the slow... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2005, Period Instrument Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2005, Editor's Choice
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These are beautifully played performances, set in a generous enough acoustic (the Teldex Studio in Berlin) to give each instrument full voice...There is enough clarity around each instrument... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Altogether, there is much to discover in this little-known work, and the conductor Justin Doyle with his talented team of soloists and the RIAS Chamber Choice and Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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