Adrian Brendel
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Musical lines pass in a single, continuous breath from one instrument to the next, and the sensual, dreamlike soundscapes are tinged with immaculately drawn moments of both despair and joy.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2025, Chamber Choice
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Bruch: Piano Trio & Other Chamber Music
Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Stephanie Gonley (violin), Adrian Brendel (cello), Lawrence Power (viola), Jonathan Stone (violin), The Nash Ensemble
Taking their cue from Stephanie Gonley’s first-violin leadership, the Trio and Quartet performances have a classy verve that convinces strongly, although the lower strings feel rather too hectoring... —
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Musical lines pass in a single, continuous breath from one instrument to the next, and the sensual, dreamlike soundscapes are tinged with immaculately drawn moments of both despair and joy.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2025, Chamber Choice
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It's good to hear his music brilliantly performed by musicians of the Nash Ensemble...The Grand Sextet is a splendidly heroic work, with its virtuoso pianism enthusiastically delivered here... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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The Nash Ensemble’s performances are first-rate, but a bit more space around the recorded sound wouldn’t have gone amiss. —
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Special offer. John Pickard: The Gardener of Aleppo
and other Chamber Works
Susan Bickley (mezzo), Nash Ensemble, Martyn Brabbins
Pickard has a compositional voice that is truly sui generis. Each work sounds different from any of the others (the composer’s stated goal) and all are expertly performed by members of the Nash... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Winner - Contemporary
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Special offer. Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber Music
Amy Freston (soprano), Adrian Brendel (cello), Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Till Fellner (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone)
All one can do with music as esoteric as this is to remember the greatness of what Birtwistle has written before and go on listening...The singer of what sounds like an extraordinary difficult... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Contemporary
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Beethoven: Trios for piano, clarinet and cello, Ops. 11 & 38
Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro (soloist), Pascal Moraguès (soloist), Adrian Brendel (soloist)
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Special offer. Verbier Festival – Best of 2014
Evgeny Kissin (piano), Daniil Trifonov (piano), Jan Lisiecki (piano), Sergei Babayan (piano), Adrian Brendel, Gautier Capuçon, Lionel Cottet, Amanda Forsyth, Clemens Hagen, Mischa Maisky, Istvan Várdai, Kyril Zlotnikov (cellos), Martha Argerich (piano), Ingela Brimberg (Leonore), Charles Castronovo...
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Beethoven, Armstrong, Haydn & Liszt: Piano Trios
Kit Armstrong (piano), Andrej Bielow (violin) & Adrian Brendel (cello)
