Bruno Philippe
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All four soloists dig into the virtuosic writing with glee – Peter Whelan’s pyrotechnics in the Bassoon Concerto are little short of astonishing, and Franco-Italian mezzo Lea Desandre rivals... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Winner - Assorted Program
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Rachmaninov & Myaskovsky: Sonatas for Cello and Piano
RecommendedBruno Philippe (cello) & Jérôme Ducros (piano)
'It’s difficult to understand why Nikolai Myaskovsky’s First Cello Sonata remains so neglected…Philippe inflects the music with great fervour, strongly supported by Jérôme Ducros’s impressive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Widmann: Viola Concerto
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Signum Quartett
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Daniel Harding
This is a wonderfully rich and rewarding concerto, packed with inventive orchestral detail. Widmann seems to move between different worlds ion the five interlinked movements, and the slower... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Concerto Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Premiere
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Special offer. Hindemith: Kammermusik I-II-III; Kleine Kammermusik
Xi Zhai, Christopher Park, Bruno Philippe, Kronberg Academy Soloists, Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
Eschenbach’s focus is very fixedly on the earlier, wilder Hindemith in this first disc of a two-volume set...Tempos are swift and lively, the touch light not heavyhanded, relishing the fervid... —
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Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 - Franck, Fauré & Poulenc
Bruno Philippe (cello), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, Tanguy de Williencourt (piano)
Philippe possesses a lovely tone in lyrical items such as Fauré’s Romance and Après un rêve, and technically is well up to all the challenges. His best interpretation is of the Poulenc Cello... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2024, Recording of the Month
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Prokofiev: Sinfonia concertante, Sonata
Bruno Philippe (cello), Tanguy de Williencourt (piano), Hessischer Rundfunks Sinfonieorchester, Christoph Eschenbach
These exceptionally beautiful reappraisals are likely to divide listeners. Bruno Philippe’s command of the instrument can scarcely be gainsaid – his tone is simply glorious – but prizing lyricism... —
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Each of the three discs functions as a standalone programme (or, as Libeer cryptically likes to call it, a 'sublimated contradiction'), with a chamber work featured on each... In fact, despite... —
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Aldo Ciccolini: Archives du Festival de Nohant
Aldo Ciccolini (piano), Nariya Nogi, Bruno Philippe (cello), Tanguy de Williencourt (piano), Jean-Paul Gasparian, Jérémie Moreau
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Here is a highly likeable set, crackling with character...From the moment Philippe injects a flourish into the G major Prelude you know this will be fun: here is an artist unafraid of artful... —
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Two young French musicians offer promising and subtly interpreted performances of these central works of the Romantic cello repertoire for their début disc. —
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