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Elgar: Viola Concerto & Bloch: Suite For Viola and Orchestra
RecommendedTimothy Ridout (viola), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Ridout’s account of the opening movement is full of richly rhapsodic playing , although the viola suggests more of a wistful musing than the deeper, elegiac contemplation possible on the cello. —
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Limelight Magazine, February 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th January 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Concerto
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Special offer. Bloch: Israel Symphony
Orchestral Works, Vol. 4
Adriana Kohutková (soprano), Katarína Kramolišová (soprano), Terezia Bajaková (mezzo-soprano), Denisa Hamarová (contralto), Michael Mačuha (baritone), Yuri Gandelsman (viola)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Atlas Camerata Orchestra, Dalia Atlas
Prolix and sprawling music, with beautiful passages to reward patient listening. The Israel Symphony features five fine (Slovak) soloists; violist Yuri Gandelsman impresses in the orientally... —
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Special offer. Tabea Zimmermann & Jascha Nemtsov play Jewish Chamber Music
Jascha Nemtsov (piano), Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
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Special offer. Bloch & Vaughan Williams: Works for Viola and Orchestra
Jerzy Kosmala (viola)
Cracow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cracow Radio Symphony Chorus, Szymon Kawalla
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Special offer. Ernest Bloch: Suite for Viola and Orchestra
Hong-Mei Xiao (viola)
Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV, Mariusz Smolij
Xiao, sweet-toned and intense, but avoiding overt histrionics, is persuasive in both. There's intricate, detailed playing, too from the Budapest Symphony under Mariusz Smolij. —
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Special offer. Bartok & Bloch: Works for Viola and Orchestra
Marcus Thompson (viola)
Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paul Freeman
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20th Century Portraits: Ernest Bloch
Sophie Koch (mezzo-soprano), Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Reinhold Friedrich (trumpet)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Steven Sloane
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Bloch: Israel Symphony
Yuri Gandelsman (viola), Katarína Kramolisová (soprano), Terezia Bajaková (mezzo soprano), Denisa Hamarová (alto), Michal Macuha (baritone)
Atlas Camerata Orchestra, Slovak Radio Orchestra, Dalia Atlas
the blend of thrust, gleaming colour and meditative, serene soul-searching that Atlas and her forces bring to the score makes this a constructive addition to the Naxos catalogue...there is a... —
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