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Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1999, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Christopher Hogwood's incisive mind regularly leads to strong and imaginative concepts: this, the first of a series of clavichord discs dedicated to Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven,... —
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Piers Hellawell: Inside Story
Clio Gould (violin), Philip Dukes (viola), Vanburgh Quartet
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
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Vivaldi: La Pastorella
Baroque Chamber Concertos from Venice
Pamela Thorby (recorders)
Fiori Musicali, Penelope Rapson
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Harrison Birtwistle: The Axe Manual
Complete Piano Works
Nicolas Hodges (piano), Claire Edwards (percussion)
Though most of the items in this indispensable collection of Birtwistle's keyboard music last five minutes or less, two are on a scale commensurate with the orchestral Triumph of Time or Secret... —
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Haydn: Nelson Mass
Patrizia Kwella (soprano), Mark Chambers (alto), Nicholas Hurndall Smith (tenor), Simon Birchall (bass)
Fiori Musicali, Penelope Rapson
A spirited version of Haydn's magnificent Nelson Mass, with crisp, punchy orchestra and choirs, and good soloists —
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All are played with a flabbergasting combination of precision and sponteneity by the Brindisi Quartet —