Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
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Judging by their passionate performances, this British team clearly feel utterly at home in this repertoire...The hit, undoubtedly, is the premiere recording of Price’s structurally lopsided... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th May 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet; Piano Quartet; Piano Trio
RecommendedKaleidoscope Chamber Collective
The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective continue to go from strength to strength. Their explorations of neglected repertoire from marginalised groups are not merely a much-needed contribution to... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th July 2022
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective (chamber ensemble)
All of them are promising rather than full-blown masterpieces (Coleridge-Taylor acknowledged the Nonet’s status in his progress by subtitling it ‘Gradus ad Parnassum’); yet they are substantial,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective are renowned for their eagerness when it comes to expanding the repertoire… moments of striking beauty and its high-spirited virtuosity, along with its canny... —
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Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 2
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 & Héritte-Viardot: Piano Quartet No. 1 'Im Sommer'
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
If you like your Brahms Third Quartet rich, dark and wide, then you might not make immediate friends with this one, but I’ve appreciated its lighter, lucid, nervily choppy angst...So an instantly... —
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Francesca Chiejina’s lustrous soprano brings serious class to Zemlinsky's Dehmel setting, and also to Alma Mahler’s songs. —
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Reynaldo Hahn: Piano Quintet; Songs; Piano Quartet
Karim Sulayman (tenor), Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
The performances are polished and luxurious. The silky string quartet sound in the opening pseudo-Baroque ‘À Chloris’ is matched by the restrained tenderness of Karim Sulayman’s tenor. —
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Most of these pieces work really well, though it occasionally feels as though the music is concentrated on sound effects, rather than coherent phrases that could be developed into something... —
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[Le Beau's Piano Quartet] provides ample evidence of her gifts, demonstrating both a skilful handling of the medium and some instantly memorable ideas…I need hardly add that the Kaleidoscope... —
