Hyperion
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That evergreen theme of courtly love inspires in Machaut extraordinary harmonies and beautiful, primitive counterpoint. The singers combine pin-sharp tuning and gentle phrasing in this seductive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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Listening straight through this disc is a moving experience, for Layton has chosen a notable list of anthems. Highly recommended. —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 53 - Reger & Strauss
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Ilan Volkov
this is one of the most lucid, as well as passionate, readings of the [Reger] I have heard. Hamelin never makes the deep left-hand bass writing in the first movement sound heavy, and he plays... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Concerto
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 80 - Dupont & Benoit
Howard Shelley (piano/conductor), Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Two pleasant, if unremarkable, works. Soloist Howard Shelley adds plenty of sparkle, mind. —
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The singers conjure up some exultant moments. —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 83 - Gablenz: Piano Concerto & Paderewski: Polish Fantasy
Jonathan Plowright (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz
Plowright makes the best possible case for [the Gablenz] in partnership with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Lukasz Borowicz, a champion of neglected Polish music...Paderewski’s Polish... —
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Ravel essentially reimagined how to write for the piano with each significant work. Osborne is more than up to the task...Throughout, [he] repeatedly demonstrates not merely that these performances... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Instrumental Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, Disc of the month
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[the Penderecki's] not the sort of music that comes off if played half-heartedly, and the Royal String Quartet, with a detailed, clear recording, give it a natural precision and direction...[the... —
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perhaps the most striking aspect of their beautifully engineered performance of the Second Trio is the surprisingly fast speeds that they adopt for the outer movements and the Passacaglia...The... —
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The performances of the four original works (the last two, written in 1790 and 1791, look forward to Beethoven and pay homage to Haydn) are magnificently played throughout — conversational,... —
