Harmonia Mundi
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The singers make a beautifully balanced sound with impressive fluency across each style...there is a pleasing tension between a consort blend and the vital quirkiness of individual voices...Jourdain’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Early Music
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Schubert: Schwanengesang
RecommendedMark Padmore (tenor) & Paul Lewis (piano), with Richard Watkins (horn)
This is a wonderful recording, two supreme Schubertians working in perfect harmony. Odd as it might sound, I think that this disc is valuable above all for Paul Lewis's stupendous playing. Not... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th September 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011, Editor's Choice
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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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Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata & other works for cello and piano
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2006, Editor's Choice
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D’Oustrac’s artistry is compelling throughout but the Wagner owes something of its impact to the fact that her voice is at its freshest…[her] smoky tone, careful dynamic shading and wonderful... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Shostakovich: Piano Quintet & Seven Romances of Alexander Blok
Trio Wanderer, Ekatarina Semenchuk (mezzo-soprano), Catherine Montier (violin), Christophe Gaugué (viola)
A performance that is comprehensively responsive to the various different strands in the work. In a relatively unmannered interpretation, the Wanderers negotiate the Quintet’s complex narrative... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Chamber Choice
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Berlioz - Nuits d'été
RecommendedBrigitte Balleys (mezzo), Mireille Delunsch (soprano)
Orchestre des Champs Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
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Building a Library, January 2014, First Choice
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Degout’s superb voice sounds wonderfully virile throughout his impressive range...In the more testosterone-driven songs, he sounds suitably heroic…Felicity Palmer has a magnificent cameo as... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2020
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Put aside your awareness of the accordion as ‘modern’, the gamba as ‘ancient’, and just listen. Their timbres, their ranges, their sonorities perfectly complement each other, as does these musicians’... — More…
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An Invitation At the Schumanns'
Trio Dichter, Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Hanna Salzenstein, Fiona Mato
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