Hyperion
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2002, Editor's Choice
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Walton: Violin Concerto, Partita & Hindemith Variations
RecommendedAnthony Marwood (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Anthony Marwood’s un-flashy individualism seems to be operating at an opposite pole to the Heifetz way, and generates memorable results of its own. While Marwood has all the virtuosity that... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2017
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Record Review, 1st July 2017, Recording of the Week
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The Romantic Cello Concerto, Vol. 3: Stanford
Gemma Rosefield (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Stanford's sturdy, Brahmsian Cello Concerto and the folksong-rich Third Rhapsody are the highlights here, superbly played by Gemma Rosefield. —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 24 - Vianna da Motta
Artur Pizarro (piano)
Orquestra Gulbenkian, Martyn Brabbins
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Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 2 - Angelika Kirchschlager
RecommendedAngelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano) & Julius Drake (piano)
Kirchschlager's rich, resonant mezzo finds beauties everywhere on this disc, from heights of drama to imtimacies of reflection, and at every turn Drake is with her. I particularly like the way... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Vocal Award Winner
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There is much to praise in these poised, polished performances, hieratic in the Mass and more intimate where the music permits it (the beginning of the ‘Qui tollis’ is lovely in a way that recalls... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Fauré - La Chanson d'Eve and other songs
RecommendedJanet Baker (mezzo soprano) & Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Hamelin and Les Violons du Roy play that gypsy finale [of the D major Concerto] with irresistable verve...If there's an incongruity between the sound of Hamelin's modern piano and that of the... —
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There's no need for analogies about a surfeit of Viennese cream-cakes with this excellent CD: the musical inventions is so brilliant and varied, and the performance so coruscating, that one's... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th July 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2008, Editor's Choice
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Sublime music of relinquishment and rejoicing prefaces the six-part Missa Cantate, directed with magisterial spaciousness by Martin Baker. The recording offers a nave’s-ear perspective. —
