Naive
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The sound these players make is intensely alluring without ever being slick. This is a disc to sink into and savour with the lights turned low: highest bliss … — More…
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Schoenberg, Berg & Webern: Complete Works for String Quartet
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Quatuor Diotima
The extreme refinement and minutely focused intensity, in recordings to match, make the Webern a singularly beautiful, if somewhat unsettling experience. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Transcriptions 2
This disc presents more classical music hits transcribed for a cappella choir, focusing on some lesser-known repertoire.
Brigitte Engerer (piano)
Accentus Chamber Choir & Les Monts du Reuil Continuo, Laurence Equilbey
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2007, Editor's Choice
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Berlioz: Les Nuits d'Été & Harold in Italy
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Marc Minkowski
Minkowski gives [Harold] an energetic, crisp, emphatic reading. The sinewy sound of the Louvre players' period instruments, though, lends it a rougher, almost folkier texture, against which... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2012, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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Douce France
RecommendedAnne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano), Bengt Forsberg (piano), Antoine Tamestit (viola)
A pair of discs to warm any Francophile's heart...Disc one is devoted to an alluring collection of melodies...However, this goes beyond a usual traversal of the genre...[for the second disc]... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 57th Awards (2014), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Schubert - Arpeggione
Arpeggione Sonata and other transcriptions
Anne Gastinel (cello) & Claire Désert (piano)
Anne Gastinel gives a charming apologia for this programme of transcriptions, in the form of a letter to Schubert, but the best justification lies in the appropriateness of the material and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2005, Editor's Choice
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What can a cellist achieve alone? A polyphonic, technicolour panorama in Christian-Pierre La Marca’s idiosyncratic tour through the distant and immediate musical past...Stand-out among the performances... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Concept Album of the Year
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Beethoven - Irish and Scottish Songs
Sophie Daneman (soprano), Paul Agnew (tenor), Peter Harvey (baritone)
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2001, Editor's Choice
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