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Their approach is rather different from the refined blend of such pioneering groups as Gothic Voices; exploiting, instead, the contrasts in timbre and character between the four voices and varying... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Early Music
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Early Music
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...the compelling reason for acquiring this disc...is Clein's magnificent account of the Solo Sonata, Op. 8...Clein's depth of tone makes an immediate impact on this well-engineered recording...A... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2010, Editor's Choice
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Milne is in complete technical and expressive command, bringing to them the fleetness and rhythmic spring, the varied character and wit, that all Medtner's music needs. He crests the summits... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, Instrumental Choice
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From first electrifying note-punch to last, with so much poetry and poignancy in between, this is a tour de force of pianism highlighting what seems more than ever like the great sonata sequence... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 8th February 2020, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - Instrumental
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Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Clarinet Quintet
RecommendedThea King (basset clarinet)
English Chamber Orchestra, Gabreili String Quartet, Jeffrey Tate
The two works on this disc represent Mozart's clarinet writing at its most inspired; however, the instrument for which they were written differed in several respects from the modern clarinet,... —
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Building a Library, September 2006, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2019, Also Recommended
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Shostakovich: Piano Quintet & String Quartet No. 2
RecommendedMarc-André Hamelin (piano)
Takács Quartet
a highly engrossing experience...the Takács come to the music from a somewhat different angle to their Soviet and Russian counterparts, emphasising closer connections with Western musical traditions... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th April 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5 & Scenes adapted from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano), Christopher Bowen (tenor), Tom Raskin (tenor), Andrew Rupp (bass), Jamie W Hall (bass), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Georgina Wheatley (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Martyn Brabbins
Brabbins and his musicians generally give a glowing and contemplative account of the Fifth Symphony (1943), its colours well captured in producer Andrew Keener’s fine recording. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Hewitt…take full advantage of the piano's potential, including its middle (sostenuto) pedal; for that mighty tonic pedal below the final harmonies of Fugue in A minor. Her quiet sustained... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2009, Editor's Choice
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Musicians are big on postcards...But none are as beautifully written as those by Stephen Hough, a reliable scribe wherever he is in the world. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2026, Editor's Choice
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Here we get a mix of 13 songs and motets taken from across his output, sung with suavity and control…'Quant en moy/Amour' provides a lesson in quiet poise and ensemble —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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