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Ferguson, Bliss & Holloway: Octets & Clarinet Quintet
Isabelle van Keulen, Sini Simonen, Scott Dickinson, Kristina Blaumane, Tim Gibbs, Michael Collins, Robin O’Neill, Alberto Menéndez Escribano, Rachel Roberts, Tim Gill, Diego Incertis Sánchez
Wigmore Soloists
With violinist Isabelle van Keulen and clarinettist Michael Collins spearheading the players, it ’s unsurprising that the performance [of the Ferguson Octet] as a whole is something of a revelation. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Chamber Choice
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Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Enescu: Octet for strings
RecommendedVilde Frang (violin), Erik Schumann (violin), Gabriel Le Magadure (violin), Roseanne Philippens (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), Lily Francis (viola), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Jan-Erik Gustavsson (cello)
Orchestre de Radio France, Mikko Franck
Frang rises to the works' passionate lyricism and dazzles in partnership with Mikko Franck and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2018, Concerto Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Concerto
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New,
Offer, Grażyna Bacewicz; Eugène Ysaÿe; George Enescu: Music For Strings Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Sonically, it’s a variation on what we know from Wilson’s group: a rich string texture that concerns itself more with sonority than blend and with the sort of tight vibrato that can, in conjuring... — More…
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William Steinberg & Boston Symphony Orchestra The complete RCA Victor Recordings
Boston Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg
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RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Seattle Chamber Music Octet, Vladimir Ashkenazy
The Octet has rarely sounded more symphonic as Ehnes and his Seattle friends demonstrate all the energy and wit of chamber playing at its most dazzling. Ehnes gives an elegant, refined account... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, October 2021, Recommended Recording
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Schubert: Octet
Isabelle Faust (violin), Anne Katharina Schreiber (violin), Danusha Waskiewicz (viola), Kristin von der Goltz (cello), Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet), Javier Zafra (bassoon), Teunis van der Zwart (horn), James Munro (double bass)
There is much to admire here: some exquisitely wistful clarinet phrasing from Coppola, and a frightening fierceness in the sudden outburst that heralds the finale, where Schubert seems momentarily... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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The Nash ensemble have a natural feeling for the music's ebb and flow, and while they're not afraid of big gestures and the bite of horsehair and rosin, they play beautifully as an ensemble...Together,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st March 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts
RecommendedVirginia Majewski (viola), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello), Gabor Rejto (cello), Jascha Heifetz (violin), William Primrose (viola), Israel Baker (violin), Arnold Belnick (violin), Joseph Stepansky (violin), Paul Rosenthal (violin), Allan Harshman (viola), Laurence Lesser (cello), Pierre Amoyal (violin),...
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Grammy Awards, 5th Awards (1962), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Building A Library, October 2021, Also Recommended
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Consistently compelling … the poetry, refinement and superb sense of the long singing line are as impressive as ever in The Gaudier Ensemble’s new recording — More…
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A spacious performance, enthralling and poetic: it leaves behind the world of happy Viennese music-making. Instead, we have a view of the Octet as one of Schubert's major achievments, sharing... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2006, Editor's Choice
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