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JS Bach: Concertos for Pianos
Evgeni Koroliov (piano), Ljupka Hadzi-Georgieva (piano), Anna Vinnitskaya (piano)
Kammerakademie Potsdam
Those who want all of Bach’s multiple keyboard concertos on the piano cannot do better. Highly recommended. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Instrumental
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Ensemble Calliopée do the works proud… displaying a refinement of tone that this repertoire all too rarely receives. With exemplary sound from Alpha, this is a self-recommending issue and a... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th May 2009
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As to where Kerson Leong stands in the comparative stakes, fairly near the top, that’s for sure – his version could be a happy first choice for any discerning listener. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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At once, I became a captive audience, scarcely comprehending the wit and originality of ideas and the composer’s colourful instrumentation. —
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Building A Library, February 2022, Also Recommended
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Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin/sprechgesang), Meesun Hong (violin), Julia Gallego (flute), Reto Bieri (clarinet), Thomas Kaufmann (cello), Joonas Ahonen (piano), Marko Milenkovic (viola)
Kopatchinskaja’s approach – sharp-focus, hyper-detailed and searching out over-the-top extremes of vocal delivery – is remarkable in its way...The upside is the superlatively precise and stylish... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' & Strauss: Metamorphosen
Sinfonia Grange au Lac, Esa-Pekka Salonen
The Strauss, to open, shimmers with deconstructed clarity, its intertwining lines following their own course and yet largely in the pursuit of these whole – there is no over-egged intensity... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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The Lamb's Journey. A Choral Narrative From Gibbons To Barber
James Kennerley, Elijah McCormack (soloist), Michael Garrepy (soloist), Eleonore Cockerham (soloist), Ensemble Altera, Christopher Lowrey
Altera’s debut album is a superb showcase. Clean as a whistle and conf ident in exposed moments such as in Poulenc’s Agnus Dei, and immaculately balanced in richly scored textures elsewhere,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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this wonderful recital headed up by violinist Chouchane Siranossian brings us Bach before ‘Bach’ (or should that be ‘BACH’), and places his early music at various pin drops along a fascinating... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
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Miserere: Clérambault & Couperin
RecommendedIsabelle Druet, Hasnaa Bennani, Claire Lefilliâtre
Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre
These performances, in a nicely-captured resonant acoustic, are engaging and expertly ornamented. Hasnaa Bennani is particularly affecting in the first of Couperin's Lessons for the Wednesday... —
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Building a Library, November 2018, Also Recommended
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