Harmonia Mundi
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Philippe Herreweghe… employ a choir of two or three voices to a part, with good singers, and has opted for a warm resonant acoustic. In 'Respicit Dominus'… there are constant inflections of... — More…
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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The performers on this pioneering recording have gone to considerable lengths to match up the complex vocal line with the accompaniment and the results are musically very convincing…Mauillon... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Editor's Choice
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Roth’s is handsome work, resulting in trenchant strings with a superb bass line, perfectly focused in the storms of the first two movements ad the fugues of the finale. There’s a good sense... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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Grieg & Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos
Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya
There's steely-fingered technique aplenty but the 2013 Van Cliburn Gold winner brings a heaviness, dulling Grieg's ethereal Adagio and Saint-Saëns fly-away moments. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2015, Editor's Choice
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…these are full-blooded performances that leave the listener in no doubt as to the music's fervour and urgency. In the Wanderer Trio's hands, the coda of the D minor Trio's first movement is... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Chamber Choice
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Martin, F: Le Vin Herbé
Sandrine Piau (Iseut), Steve Davislim (Tristan), Jutta Böhnert (Branghien), Hildegard Wiedemann (Iseut aux Blanches Mains), Ulrike Bartsch (La Mère d'Iseult), Joachim Buhrmann (Kaherdin), Jonathan E. de la Paz Zaens (King Mark) & Roland Hartmann (Le Duc Hoël & Un Vieillard)
RIAS Kammerchor...
Daniel Reuss's… singers and instrumentalists show themselves completely attuned to this exalted score and sensitive to its luminous textures and powerful sense of mystery. The choir has perfect... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2007, Editor's Choice
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
RecommendedBernarda Fink (Orfeo) Veronica Cangemi (Euridice), Maria Cristina Kiehr (Amor)
Freiburger Barockorchester & Rias Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Jacobs conducts an urgent, pungently characterised performance — More…
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Building a Library, March 2003, First Choice
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…a vivacious and technically superb outfit… — More…
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Building a Library, January 2012, CD Choice
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Surprisingly crisp and spry these readings may be, but the result sounds and feels authentically Mozartian, Jacobs coaxing alert and alive playing from a band on the very top of their form. — More…
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Building a Library, February 2020, Recommended Recording
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Superbly recorded, it is a masterclass in outstanding breadth of interpretation, balance and total teamwork … the group’s ‘worker’s co-operative’ ethos continues to reap dividends with, on this... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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