Harmonia Mundi
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Lawes’s music is in general jolly and introspective by turns. Boothby plays in a charmingly gentle, often elegant yet spare way that suggests he is enjoying a private pleasure which we are nonetheless... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2016, Editor's Choice
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Almong these minor gems shining through the mists of eight centuries, there are some that stand out for sheer musical imagination...Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek shows us just what subtle vocal... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2014, Editor's Choice
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Bach, J S: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV1046-1051
RecommendedRichard Egarr (harpsichord & direction) Joel Katzman, Amsterdam, 1991, after Ruckers, Antwerp, 1638, Tuning:A = 392
Academy of Ancient Music
The playing is ravishing in the chamber-music slow-movement textures. …a recording you must hear, if only to hear how the boundaries of these extraordinary concertos can be stretched. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th March 2009
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These are virtuoso performances of some quite extraordinary music. Each sonata has its own descriptive subtitle and a movement layout which seems reluctant to conform to any set pattern. Presumably... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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With Bertrand, tiny embellishments and a kaleidoscopic range of colours make listening a particular pleasure…You get the impression that she’s recalling the music from memory rather than reading... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gloryland
Folk songs, Spirituals, Gospel hymns of Hope & Glory
Darol Anger (violin & mandolin) & Mike Marshal (mandolins)
Anonymous 4
Anonymous 4 is the team of four women who were acclaimed for "American Angels", which stayed in the Billboard classical charts almost a year and a half, ending at the top. "Gloryland" is a... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Editor's Choice
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Mozart in Paris, 1778
RecommendedSuzanne Kaiser (flute), Anne-Katrin Brüggemann (oboe), Javier Zafra (bassoon), Erwin Wieringa (horn) & Mara Galassi (harp)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz
…Mozart created a sensation with his new symphony… and I don’t know of any recording that catches its proud swagger and sonorous richness as vividly as this new one. The outer movements have... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2022, Recommended Recording
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Sara Mingardo (contralto), Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Women's choir of Schola Heidelberg, Young singers of the Kölner Dom, François-Xavier Roth
[Roth] goes at the crazy world of the Third with all wind and brass guns blazing…He isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty with the raggle-taggle marchers of the first movement. Even the trombone... — More…
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Record Review, 2nd March 2019, Disc of the Week
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Brahms - Horn Trio
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (Sleeping Beauty Stradivarius 1704), Alexander Melnikov (1857 Bösendorfer piano) & Teunis van der Zwart (Lorenz Waldhorn 1845)
It's a superb version of the piece by any standard, the slow movements absolutely saturated in intense Romantic melancholy but fleet and agile in scherzo and finale. Faust and Melnikov and... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2021, Also Recommended
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Le Violon Vagabond: Graf Mourja
Works for piano & violin by Bartok, Manuel Ponce, Tchaikovsky, Paganini, Chedrine, Kroll, de Sarasate…
Graf Mourja (violin) & Natalia Gous (piano)
Ukrainian violinist Graf Mourja follows up his fine disc of Stravinsky and Szymanowski for Harmonia Mundi with a foray into more eclectic territory. This selection brings together the wild and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Re-issue of the Month
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