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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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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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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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Special offer. 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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Mahler: Kindertotenlieder & Schubert, Schumann, Brahms: Lieder
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Edinburgh Festival Orchestra, Bruno Walter
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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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Reger: Orchestral Songs
Stefanie Iranyi (mezzo-soprano), Rainer Trost (tenor) & Paul Armin Edelmann (baritone)
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Gregor Buhl
There’s some superb singing here…’Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer’ is creepily introverted, and [Iranyi is] charming in Reger’s own ‘Wiegenlied’. Tenor and baritone, Rainer Trost and Paul Armin... — More…
