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Bach, J S - Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV1008
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Instrumental » Cello Solos
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A completely new and inspiring benchmark for this unique tour de force — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Instrumental Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2007, Disc of the month
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Record Review, December 2007, Listeners' Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2007, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Instrumental
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A spellbinding set that is arguably Podger's finest recorded achievement to date...Music that one thinks of instinctively as boldly-etched, deeply (in every sense) introspective and eliciting... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th April 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2019, Recording of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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By now, Ma’s wings are fully grown. His capacity for soaring seems limitless, his ability to minutely alter dynamics and tempos at the least prompting and the joy of his lilting rhythms are... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th August 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Instrumental
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Gerhardt says he has been wary of recording the Bach Suites before he was good and ready…In any case, his performances do not sound like the kind that would ever have become set in stone; they... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Instrumental
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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There is the most satisfying sense that Queyras knows the place and function of every single note in each musical sentence but isn’t precious about it: it’s magisterial yet somehow casual in... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Presto Best Jazz Reissue/Archive, Finalist 2023
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Watkin's profound musicianship is more than enough to accelerate this recording of Bach's Cello Suites to the top of the tiny league of 'definitive' recordings...it's as if all the work that... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Instrumental Winner
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Carmignola asserts his own special interpretative proclivities: the magical musical intakes of breath during and at the ends of phrases, the endlessly flexible handling of dynamics, and a temporal... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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I couldn’t imagine a more dignified or sublimely expressed account of the C minor’s Prelude than Kashkashian’s…Her handling of the oft-excerpted Sarabande has a winning sense of stillness about... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Solo Recital (viola)
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The overwhelming impression is of a cellist playing as comes naturally, with his very personal, timeless (albeit period-aware) response to the music…It’s a tough field of competition for this... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2024, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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