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Ravel - Violin Sonata in A minor 'Sonate posthume'
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Ravel: Complete music for violin & piano
RecommendedAlina Ibragimova (violin) & Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Alina Ibragimova and Cedric Tiberghien are utterly convincing advocates, matching the ebb and flow of this work's intense and slow-burning passion...Ibragimova charms with more than limpid tone.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd August 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Ravel: The Complete Works With Piano
François-Xavier Poizat (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Simone Menezes
What a stunning collection this is! His keyboard artistry embodies all the best qualities characterising Ravel’s greatest interpreters...No Ravel lover should miss this important release. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Recording of the Month
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Ravel - Sonatas & Trios
RecommendedRenaud Capuçon (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Frank Braley (piano)
Renaud Capuçon and Frank Braley get away from the rather uptight image we have of Ravel to compelling effect — More…
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Building a Library, September 2006, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2009, First Choice
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Here’s a masterclass in how to make [the Franck Sonata] sound fresh. First, Duo Gazzana…hasn’t settled for an obvious programme…It is a big work…and the Gazzanas have evidently thought exactly... — More…
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Special offer. Daniel Hope - Belle Époque
Daniel Hope (violin), Lise de la Salle (piano), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Zürcher Kammerorchester
It’s all very tastefully done, if rather insubstantial. — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Poème
The Artistry of Lydia Mordkovitch
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), with Marina Gusak-Grin (piano), with Marina Gusak-Grin (piano) & Gabriel Woolf (narrator), with Clifford Benson (piano), with Julian Milford (piano)
her distinctiveness of tone is unmistakeable — deep and plummy, as forceful as mellifluous. Wilhelmj’s version of Wagner’s Album Leaf piano solo spurs her to wonders of phrasing. Chausson’s... — More…
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Ravel: 3 Sonatas, Tzigane, Habanera, Berceuse etc
RecommendedChantal Juillet (violin), Pascal Rogé (piano), Truls Mørk (cello)
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Chamber
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In the shade of forests
The Bohemian World of Debussy, Enescu and Ravel
Philippe Graffin (violin) & Claire Désert (piano)
A beautiful disc, this, its message one of gentle longing and nostalgia, though the playing is anything but sentimental. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2005, Editor's Choice
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Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2013
RecommendedMartha Argerich (piano), Mischa Maisky (cello) & Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin) & Francesco Piemontesi (piano), Alissa Margulis (violin) & Jura Margulis (piano), Gautier Capuçon (cello) & Gabriela Montero (piano), Andrey Baranov (violin) & Jura Margulis (piano),...
The festival has class written all over it and exudes more joy - and humour - than any comparable event known to me. Argerich herself leads off here, in Beethoven's First Piano Concerto, displaying... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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