Rihm
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Mendelssohn’s Variations Concertantes packs a lot of variety into its nine minutes...The players here capture its changing moods, and the plangent song-like quality of the Assai Tranquillo,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Chamber Music Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Special offer. Renaud Capuçon plays Three Modern Concertos
World Premiere performances & recordings
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris, Philippe Jordan, Myung-Whun Chung
The more exciting music is often in the orchestra, but it’s a tribute to Capuçon’s skills that, like both of the other works it is completely under his skin —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Contemporary
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Musique Contemporaine
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The voice – a distinctive instrument offering a hint of Christian Gerhaher’s refined artlessness and some of the pleasingly acidic tang of Wolfgang Holzmair – changes according to the accompaniment:... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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Bookended by Bach arrangements, this album of solo piano works explores musical connections through history. The overwhelming echo in the recording creates a shimmering effect, overriding some... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Solo Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Vocal
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... as if the mesh of words were broken ...
Lieder in the late 20th century and beyond
Clare Lesser (soprano), David Lesser (piano) & Gerhard Gall (speaker)
…this is a great CD. I insist that this album of modern(istic) lieder is irresistible. A large part of its success must fall to the remarkable vocal talent of soprano Clare Lesser. Goodly credit... —
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The trio admirably presenting itself here is the unusual combination of piano (Nicolas Hodges), sax (Marcus Weiss) and percussion (Christian Dierstein), and the stylistic orientation is European... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Rihm/Bartok: Schrift-Um-Schrift
Graumacher Piano Duo, Franz Schindlbeck & Jan Schlichte (percussion)
This performance is a model of sustained alertness, the recording admirably spacious and sonorous. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2011, Editor's Choice
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it’s one of Rihm’s greatest achievements, an unstoppable, ever-renewing stream of invention that seems to follow its own satisfying logic. It’s also phenomenally difficult to play, though you’d... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year & Composer of the Year
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