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Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
RecommendedMartin Fröst (clarinet), with Janine Jansen (violin), Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), with Roland Pöntinen (piano), with Torleif Thedéen (cello) & Roland Pöntinen (piano)
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Fröst revels in the deep-plush velvet of his chalumeau regions - and, indeed, sustains this timbre throughout the instrument's register...the ensemble creates cutting-edge rhythmic urgency,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Chamber
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Morison’s mezzo basks in an almost inextinguishable warmth and radiance...Everywhere her sense of musical line is a wonder (pianist Malcolm Martineau conjuring wonderments of his own), though... — More…
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The Haydn readings are period-aware, with a fantastic freshness, energy and range of colour...A strong debut, and I hope to see more from these three on Aparté in the future. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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Antonio Meneses and Grard Wyss show a collegial ease together, with natural and unaffected phrasing that oozes affection for the music...The songs work well: Meneses’s eloquent phrasing substitutes... — More…
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Special offer. Kathleen Ferrier: The Legendary Edinburgh Recital, 1949
Kathleen Ferrier, Bruno Walter (piano)
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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... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Réédition
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Irmgard Seefried
Vienna 1943-1952
Irmgard Seefried (soprano) with Leopold Ludwig, Viktor Graef & Erik Werba (piano)
A lovely collection: if you had to choose a single disc to represent Seefried in song you could not do better than this...Her personal warmth permeates the voice, and in these recordings one... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Brahms: Lieder & Liebeslieder Waltzes
RecommendedRecorded live at the 2003 Verbier Festival
Andrea Rost (soprano), Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone), Yefim Bronfman & James Levine (piano duet), James Levine
The quartet themselves make an appealingly lively sound…Quasthoff and especially Kozena are strongest in their solo selections, the mezzo’s three songs distinguished by her plangent tone and... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th June 2016
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Brahms: The Two Viola Sonatas
and other works arranged for viola and piano by Ettore Causa
Ettore Causa (viola), Marc Pantillon (piano)
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Mahler: Kindertotenlieder & Schubert, Schumann, Brahms: Lieder
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Edinburgh Festival Orchestra, Bruno Walter
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