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Stravinsky: Violin Concerto & Chamber Works
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles
[Concerto]…of the dozen or so readings I’ve heard none equals Faust’s, because she has somehow cracked the code, finding genuine wit, sparkle, and lyrical beauty in the solo part without imposing... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd March 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Special offer. Stravinsky - Complete Music for Violin & Piano
Anthony Marwood (violin) & Thomas Adès (piano)
Adès's touch with the piano parts is at once live-wire and beautifully stylish, with Marwood matching this flair for deftly characterised light and shade. The Pulcinella suite and Divertimento... —
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Je te veux
Julie Fuchs, Alphonse Cemin (piano, contrabass), Félicien Brut (accordion), Davide Vittone (contrabass), Alexis Cardenas (violin), Levy Sekgapane (contrabass), Florent Baffi (bass)
You'd have to be pretty stony-hearted not to be at least a little smitten with this amiable saunter through the Belle Époque...Clearly having a ball, French soprano Julie Fuchs leads the way... —
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Eve finds her voice as Prohaska and Drake navigate Eden’s bright spots and murkier corners. A heady selection of songs to intoxicate the senses; vivid storytelling and musicality. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Song
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Extremely enjoyable – each re-listening only heightens my pleasure in the programme and all the performances – and extremely valuable in its illumination of an important subsidiary aspect of... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2017
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Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat: Concert Suite & Renard
Catherin Ciesinski (mezzo-soprano) & Susan Naruki (soprano)
Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Robert Craft
Wistful is not a word one expects to use to describe a composition of Stravinsky but the Pastorale which opens this collection has just that kind of charm. Written originally as a vocal piece... —
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Her youthful yet attractively rich-toned voice and beguiling musicianship, with an appropriate touch of skittishness at the start of the Weinberg set, works extremely well through most of these... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. BBC Legends Volume 2
Great recordings from the archive
David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter, Artur Rubinstein, Claudio Arrau, Myra Hess, Andrés Segovia, Kirsten Flagstad, Géza Anda, Borodin Quartet, Victoria de los Angeles, Yehudi Menuhin, Pierre Fournier, Walter Gieseking
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In everything from the Goldbergs to Takemitsu – taking in the Diabellis along the way – he illuminates music I should know better. The lucidity of his thought, translated to the keyboard with... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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