Harmonia Mundi
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So bold are Glenn Gould's fingerprints on the score, not just in the intricate decorations but also the colours, the phrasing, the idiosyncratic articulation, that it is more an arrangement... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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…Lewis makes the most of the bleak contours and cryptic ideas characterising Liszt's late pieces. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2004, Editor's Choice
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Lewis has the full measure of the work's epic scale, creating a real sense of cumulative growth as he navigates us through its extraordinary narrative...Unashamedly exploiting the warmth and... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th May 2011
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, Disc of the month
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It almost goes without saying that this is piano playing of the highest calibre, to which the recorded sound does full justice. Yet I do have reservations about his choice of repeats...Lewis's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th May 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Andreas Staier: Pour passer la mélancolie
RecommendedAndreas Staier (anon. French harpsichord, late 17th century, Joseph Collesse, 1749, restored by Laurent Soumagnac 2000-4)
a satisfying issue on a fine-sounding and sympathetically recorded mid-18th-century harpsichord. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Bach, J S: English Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV806-811
Richard Egarr [harpsichord, by Joel Katzman, Amsterdam, 1991, after Ruckers, Antwerp, 1638]. Pitch: a’ = 409 • Temperament: Egarr, based on 18th-century models
Egarr opens No. 1 like a lutenist improvising, flexing his fingers and checking his tuning, before embarking on a thoughtful stream of deliberate quavers...The dances are full of imaginative... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Instrumental Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, Instrumental Choice
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Hanns Eisler: Ernste Gesänge & Sonata Op. 1
Matthias Goerne (baritone), Thomas Larcher (piano)
Ensemble Resonanz, Ingo Metzmacher
Goerne’s performance of the Ernste Gesange is mesmerising… Goerne colours every word with insight and intensity and moulds each melodic line with amazing fluidity. The Ensemble Resonanz follows... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Vocal Finalist
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Lied
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Debussy: Harmonie du soir
Mélodies
Sophie Karthäuser (soprano), Stéphane Degout (baritone), Eugene Asti (piano), Alain Planès (piano)
[Karthäuser] excels in the lighter, earlier songs in which Debussy is developing his own style…Dégout has the ideal weight, colour and poise to explore the later, broader canvases of setting... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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His mature affinity for Scriabin comes through in the way he contours phrases, sentences and paragraphs, and in his sensitive layering of complex textures…Where Kholodenko is least persuasive... — More…
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Piano
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
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Cuiller’s approach is robust and rollicking, appropriately dramatic and alert to Couperin’s occasional taste for spectacle…But it isn’t just the vigour of Cuiller’s interpretations that delights.... — More…
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