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Biber - Passacaglia for violin solo in G minor (from Mystery Sonatas)
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Instrumental » Violin Solos
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it makes the perfect companion to her memorable recording of Bach’s solo violin works...Faust’s playing is poised and effortless. She uses minimal vibrato, producing a clean, silvery sound. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th October 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Special offer. Guardian Angel: Rachel Podger
RecommendedMusic by Bach, Matteis, Tartini, Pisendel, Biber
Rachel Podger (violin)
Characteristically unforced and natural, the playing manages to sound endlessly considered yet spontaneous. There's a sureness to the placing of every note, whether poised or bristling with... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Instrumental Award Winner
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Biber: The Rosary Sonatas
RecommendedAndrew Manze (violin), Richard Egarr (organ and harpsichord), Alison McGillivray (cello Sonata XII)
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Building a Library, December 2004, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Biber - Sacro-profanum
RecommendedPeter Harvey (bass), Richard Wistreich (bass), Anna Macdonald (violin & viola), Annette Isserlis (viola), Katherine McGillivray (viola), Pamela Cresswell (viola), Rachel Byrt (viola), William Hunt (violone)
Purcell Quartet
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Building a Library, December 2004, First Choice
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Seventy minutes with Death for company may look like hard going but such is the expressive depth and profound consoling beauty of the works assembled here, and so committed and responsive the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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This is a deeply thought-through, bewitchingly rendered succession of interpretations…This is also one of those rare albums truly conceived as a whole listen from start to finish…Whatever Silverstein... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Newcomer
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The main event is the first-ever recording of the complete, original set of Six Partitas by Johann Joseph Vilsmaÿr…[these] are challenging polyphonic works, full of double- and triple-stops,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2016, Editor's Choice
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Biber: Violin Sonata No. 3 in F major, C. 140, etc.
RecommendedMonica Huggett (violin), Thomas Guthrie (bass)
Sonnerie
Monica Huggett's arrival at these marvels of the 17th-century violin repertoire has the authority of a player to the manner born. She has a strong but fluent technique, and produces from her... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Saluste-Bridoux’s bracingly insightful playing on her debut disc encompasses a dazzling stylistic range…she creates the uncanny impression of there being more than one player at work, colouring... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Instrumental Choice
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