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Bartók & Ligeti: Ensemble Intercontemporain
Jérôme Comte (clarinet), Diego Tosi (violin) & Sébastien Vichard (piano), Gilles Durot, Samuel Favre (percussions) & Dimitri Vassilakis, Sébastien Vichard (pianos), Hidéki Nagano (piano), Pierre Strauch (cello), Jeanne-Marie Conquer (violin)
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher
Others may have taken the opening Vivace of Ligeti's Piano Concerto at more of a lick, but the precision here packs a punch, and there's a sheer sense of fun as the final two movements develop... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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[the Hammerklavier] has received several amazing recordings in recent years, and Nelson Goerner’s is one of them. It is also a highly individual though never quirky account —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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'Les girls' have tremendous fun playing up the kinship between Poulenc and Brubeck, and the whole album breathes lightly-worn chic and joie de vivre. Watch out for the final moto perpetuo of... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2018
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Sibelius & Rautavaara: Violin Concertos
Tobias Feldmann (violin), Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
I love the parallels between these two Finnish concertos which Feldman and Kantarow draw out, from the especially ethereal treatment of the opening of the Sibelius (which anticipates the disembodied... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
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The Basel CO demonstrate how pinpoint precision and a depth of understanding, borne of performing and touring this music before recording it, pays dividends…The disc is filled out with a selection... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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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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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
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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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Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Capriccio & Octuor
Nathalia Milstein (piano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Mikko Franck
it’s beauty rather than the beast that you get here...on this showing Franck is more of a sophisticate than he is a primitivist. —
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Record Review, 24th September 2022, Record of the Week
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Rameau Chez La Pompadour. Le Retour d'Astree. Les Sybarites
Marie Perbost (soloist), Jehanne Amzal (soloist), David Witczak (soloist), Philippe Estèphe (soloist), Clément Debieuvre, Eugénie Lefebvre (soloist), Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
It’s an invigorating performance from Ensemble Les Surprises and Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas...The voices are excellent, too. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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