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Kovacevich brings penetrating insight and a thrilling physical involvement. From the outset there is a driving momentum and crispness of articulation, and the bristling energy of so many variations... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Instrumental Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2009, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Editor's Choice
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Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Andrew Manze’s approach, at once equable and gently intense, produces fine results in the first movement [of the Third]…[he] keeps a tight rein on all the eruptive orchestral happenings [of the... — More…
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Building A Library, May 2022, Also Recommended
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Debussy, Elgar, Respighi & Sibelius: Violin Sonatas
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano)
This is a radiantly engineered album of music composed around the time of the Great War, played with beguiling elegance by James Ehnes and regular playing partner Andrew Armstrong. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Dumay and Lortie bring fresh insights to such well-loved music. Their approach to the G major Sonata is particularly mesmerising...Needless to say, the rest of this beautifully engineered disc... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, Chamber Choice
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Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra make a convincing case for this sometimes disorientating piece [Suite No. 1], with plenty of drive and contrast, plus consistently well-defined... — More…
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[Petrenko’s love for Elgar] can be felt throughout this performance too: in the sumptuous but textured orchestral sound (beautifully recorded), in the attentive phrasing and in the power of the... — More…
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Record Review, 8th April 2017, Recording of the Week
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sometimes it's like listening to two people excitedly bouncing ideas off each other; at others it's like a love duet, or even the kind of intense parting conversation in which every word counts... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Chamber Choice
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Vadim Repin, Daniel Hope (violins)
Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Sascha Goetzel
Vadim Repin and Daniel Hope are, not surprisingly, ideally fluent, and the excellent Turkish players recreate Turnage’s enigmatic soundworld with aplomb. This is an uncompromising score, but... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Though these are modern instrument performances they have a clarified quality that shows that Ehnes has been listening to, and has to an extent absorbed, the priorities of period instrument performance…an... — More…
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Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite No. 2 & Hungarian Peasant Songs
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard
Dausgaard exhorts the BBCSSO to milk the music for its intensity, conjuring a suitably claustrophobic and lurid setting...In general the transition moments are well handled and Dausgaard carries... — More…
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