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Ravel - Tzigane
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RecommendedMusic for Violin & Piano by Bartók, Poulenc & Ravel
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Polina Leschenko (piano)
Playing of such consummate ease combined with involvement and attention to detail...Simply, this is one of the finest, most musically sensitive recordings to have come my way for some time,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th February 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Chamber
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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.... —
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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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Truly, chapeau to de Forceville and Margain. Perhaps other Ravel and Bonis pairings will follow, but with this catalogue-expanding piece of simple yet harmonious programming, they set the bar... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2026, 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. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Recording of the Month
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Berg & Stravinsky: Violin Concertos
RecommendedItzhak Perlman (violin)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Perlman's account of the Berg Violin Concerto with the Boston orchestra under Ozawa has long occupied a respected place in the catalogue. The original reviewer in Gramophone in March 1980 was... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection
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Building a Library, June 2000, Second Choice
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Grammy Awards, 23rd Awards (1980), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Here’s an archetypal recital programme which every emerging violin virtuoso would dream of recording, though few recent contenders have done so with such unerring assurance and mastery as Johan... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2024, Chamber Choice
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Kopatchinskaja: Rapsodia
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Emilia Kopatchinskaja (violin & viola), Viktor Kopatchinsky (cimbalom), Martin Gjakonovski (double bass) & Mihaela Ursuleasa (piano)
[in the Enescu] both Kopatchinskaya and her partner Mihaela Ursuleasa [project] an instinctive feeling for the almost improvisatory musical line. Finally Ravel's Tzigane is presented not as... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2011, Editor's Choice
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Fantasies, Rhapsodies and Daydreams
Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Lawrence Foster
This recital is something of a triumph for violinist Arabella Steinbacher. [Waxman’s Carmen Fantasy] is finger-cripplingly difficult, and…Steinbacher makes it sound like a neat-masterpiece…saving... —
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Building a Library, October 2018, Recommended Recording
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