Laura van der Heijden
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Earth, Sea, Air: British Music For Cello and Orchestra
RecommendedLaura van der Heijden (cello), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth
Van der Heijden is mesmerising, her intense, focused tone powerfully articulating its pained rhetoric, her keening lyricism punctuated with grittier, muscular anger. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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As these heartfelt performances demonstrate, these are not cowed and dutifully conservative works…Van der Heijden plays with attractively songful tone throughout, rich yet grainy in her instrument’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Newcomer of the Year
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Schubert: String Quintet, Quartettsatz
Brodsky Quartet (string quartet), Laura van der Heijden (cello)
In this exceptional interpretation of Schubert’s C major Quintet, there are plenty of moments where the players individually or collectively make something happen – a tiny inflection in the... —
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Record Review, 1st October 2022
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The starting point for this delicious and distinctive Bohemian programme was Janácek’s Pohádka...Laura van der Heijden and Jâms Coleman unleash its power in this big-boned reading, with its... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2022
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A Tale Of Two Cellos
Arrangements by Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber (cellos), John Lenehan (piano), Catrin Finch (harp), Guy Johnston (cello) & Laura van der Heijden (cello)
The most worthwhile tracks surround the cellists' effusions with space, air and Catrin Finch's harp...Throughout, John Lenehan's piano gives helpful support. —
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Mozart: The Piano Quartets
Francesca Dego (violin), Timothy Ridout (viola), Laura van der Heijden (cello), Federico Colli (piano)
All four musicians here are star soloists in their own rights, but there's no sense of jostling egos in these warmly collegiate performances - just the sense of ideas being exchanged in the... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2023
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Golden Oldies – More Favourite Encores
Brodsky Quartet (string quartet), Laura van der Heijden (cello), Julian Jacobsen
The result – lovingly presented and played with consummate finesse – is like a selection box of handmade musical confectionery. What strikes you first is the seriousness and craft with which... —
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Unabashedly tonal, this is music firmly rooted in the vocabulary of Brahms and Beethoven. Yet the works featured here were composed in the last four years and Ruiz himself is a spritely 32 years... —
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Transcendant Trios: A Classical Collection
Kerenza Peacock, Huw Watkins (piano), Laura van der Heijden (cello), Sting, Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (leadvocalist), Ambache Chamber Ensemble, Subito Piano Trio, Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
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It’s a special treat to have two of the younger generation’s most interesting artists championing the Walker as its existing discography is so very limited. —
