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Brahms: String Sextets
RecommendedBelcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
The two works have attracted numerous fine recordings, but here a luxury cast of the Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras bring us a really special one – full-toned, warm-hearted... — More…
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Record Review, 12th March 2022, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Chamber
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Gramophone Awards, 2022 Finalists
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber
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There’s a marble-statue nobility to his playing, a sense of his powerful technique being harnessed to expression, and a seriousness-of-purpose…To end, we hear three of Brahms’s Intermezzos: elegiac,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th March 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Shortlisted - Piano
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Johannes Brahms: Piano Concertos
RecommendedAndrás Schiff (piano/director), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Schiff conducts from the keyboard...securing crisp ensemble and cogent longer-term grasp of structure in his forward-moving tempos...The wiry tone of his restored circa-1859 Blüthner grand may... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th June 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
RecommendedDorothea Röschmann (soprano) & Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Berliner Philharmoniker & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Rattle
…this is a very impressive account of Brahms's German Requiem, deeply considered and most beautifully played and sung. The full, warm sound he draws from the Berlin Philharmonic has a sombre... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Choral
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Choral Performance
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He is tender in op. 118/2 and powerful on op. 118/3. Op. 116/4 sings, and op. 117/2 is delicate, with a lovely touch. In several of these works—op. 116/5 and 6, and op. 117/1, for example—Brahms’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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dynamic and dramatic readings, faithful to Brahms's intentions. Powerfully conceived, they are rhythmically alert, without an ounce of undue sentiment and never for an instant losing sight of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Recording of the Year
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Building a Library, April 2018, Also recommended
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Volodos, rather like the music, can seem to inhabit a world of his own – removed, remote, yet in steely control of the expression of that remoteness…Volodos is a master of soft and silken tone... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Piano
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Instrumental
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Brahms & Bartók: Violin Concertos RecommendedJanine Jansen (violin)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
The Bartok is a revelation.Somehow Jansen manages to coax this music out of its accustomed reticence, but without any sense of forcing it…at last, this concerto really does sing of unrequited... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th January 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Brahms's three piano quartets sometimes exhibit this tendency but in performances as fine as these it is triumphantly surmounted with a combination of brisk speeds and an extraordinary collective... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2007, Chamber Choice
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With an almost ideal balance between piano and strings, the variety of articulation in their playing brings a marvellous textural variety to the full-blooded writing in the outer movements of... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2008, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Chamber
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Building a Library, April 2021, Also Recommended - Schumann Quintet
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