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Brahms: Viola Sonatas & Zwei Gesange Op. 91
RecommendedAntoine Tamestit (viola), Cédric Tiberghien (piano), Matthias Goerne (baritone)
The playing of these two fine artists offers high-class musical riches at every point, Tamestit finding a ceaseless range of tone-colours that always sounds natural rather than contrived. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Soirée
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (mezzo), Sir Simon Rattle (piano), Rahel Rilling (violin), Wolfram Brandl (violin), Yulia Deyneka (viola), David Adorjan (cello), Andrew Marriner (clarinet)
There is some lovely singing from Kožená, whose fawn-tinted mezzo retains its attractive quality from her earliest discs…She sings the two Brahms collections well, especially the Ophelia Songs,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th September 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Mahler: Kindertotenlieder and 3 Rückert Lieder and Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge
RecommendedKathleen Ferrier
Vienna Philharmonic, Bruno Walter
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The absorbing six songs that make up Op 86 are all easily encompassed by Marie-Nicole Lemieux, not least because her technique is so secure that she can pay attention to the meaning of each... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2005, Editor's Choice
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Brahms: Piano Concertos
RecommendedStephen Kovacevich (piano), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Nobuko Imai (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Concerto
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Brahms Works for Viola II
Maxim Rysanov (viola), with Boris Brovtsyn (violins), Julia Deyneka (viola), Kristine Blaumane (cello), with Mariana Osipova, with Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) & Ashley Wass (piano)
In the rhapsodic musings of the slow movement Rysanov becomes the idealised incarnation of the gypsy fiddler that Brahms surely had in mind when composing that uniquely florid part. The whole... —
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Her dark, distinctive timbre, expressive colouring and fast-moving vibrato are heard at their best in Schubert, Mahler, Wolf and Brahms, although she also sings splendidly in Purcell’s Sound... —
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Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Réédition
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Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedStephen Kovacevich (piano), with Ann Murray (mezzo) & Nobuko Imai (viola), with Ann Murray (mezzo)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Concerto
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Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 10 - Sophie Rennert
Sophie Rennert (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano), Lawrence Power (viola)
I suspect that Sophie Rennert’s tones, combining an amber glow with the freshness of youth and a freesoaring top, would have come somewhere near [Brahms's] ideal. She phrases broadly and expressively,... —
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Special offer. Jessye Norman Complete Studio Recitals - Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, Decca
RecommendedJessye Norman (soprano)
It’s a gorgeous presentation comprising some 44 CDs and three DVDs and taking in every aspect of Norman’s memorable vocal prowess...Pure class, like the soprano herself. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Box Set of the Year
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