Hyperion
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This completes the Florestan Trio's Beethoven series. Their thoughtfulness throughout has been impressive; their overall style avoids heaviness, keeping the textures light and airy, and giving... —
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Building a Library, May 2019, Also Recommended
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This excellent Hyperion issue brings together a wide-ranging group of Walton's chamber works, from his earliest major work, the Piano Quartet, originally written when he was 16, to his last... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2002, Editor's Choice
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Driver revels in Emanuel's idiosyncrasies, underlining the spontaneous and edgier qualities in the composer's Empfindsamer stil (sensitive style). —
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if you've ever shuddered at the extremes of expression, interpretation, tempi and noises-off in Gould's Bach, then Hewitt should be a profound pleasure...That's not to say that there isn't effervescent,... —
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Building a Library, January 2004, First Choice
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Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 5 - Allan Clayton
RecommendedAllan Clayton (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)
The quieter moments of these songs show Allan Clayton’s voice at its best: smooth, tender and altogether alluring…By and large his diction is good…overall the performances are alive to the drama... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st December 2018
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This album finds the quartet in excellent shape, with their clarity of idea and warmth of sound as strong as ever. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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Roslavets: Chamber Symphony & In the hours of the New Moon
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2006, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, September 2005, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1999, Winner - Solo Vocal
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The Romantic Violin Concerto 1 - Saint-Saëns
Philippe Graffin (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
The first two violin concertos of Saint-Saëns were composed in reverse order. The Second is the longer and lesser-known of the two, but the First Concerto more resembles the thematic charm and... —
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The over-modestly titled Pièces pittoresques are really his Preludes, ten varied sound poems which search the soul and come up with not angst nor rage, but a unique combination of joy, vulnerability,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2006, Editor's Choice
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