Haas, P
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…what is immediately striking about the present performance is its boldness and originality in terms of tempo contrasts, rhythmic emphasis and textural variety. Not only the playing beyond... —
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Building a Library, September 2012, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Best Newcomer
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…totally compelling and warmly recorded performances… —
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Building a Library, September 2012, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2008, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
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Terezín / Theresienstadt
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Bengt Forsberg (piano), Christian Gerhaher (baritone) & Gerold Huber (piano)
…despite all their suffering, the music that was written and performed there expresses a strong will to live and attests to the power of the creative spirit… Such feelings are omnipresent in... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Vocal Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2007, Disc of the month
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2007, Editor's Choice
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Fata Morgana: Songs by Pavel Haas
Anita Watson (soprano), Anna Starushkevych (mezzo soprano), Nicky Spence (tenor), James Platt (bass), Navarra Quartet, Lada Valesova (piano)
[Fata Morgana] receives an impassioned premiere recording by Nicky Spence and the Navarra Quartet alongside Valesova…from joy to despair, every emotion is here in subtle colours; a legacy of... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Vocal
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The Bennewitz Quartet are a wonderfully balanced ensemble with superb intonation and internal harmony. Their accounts of all o these works are exemplary and they need fear no comparison with... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2019
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Gesänge Des Orients
Songs of the Orient
Simon Wallfisch & Edward Rushton, Edward Rushton, Simon Wallfisch
This fascinating programme of early twentieth-century songs (many of them by composers condemned as purveyors of ‘degenerate’ music by the Nazis) struck me as a sort of alternative Das Lied... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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Both [the Ullmann and the Klein] are powerfully emotional works and they are performed here by the Nash Ensemble with passionate conviction and great attention to detail...The Nash Ensemble... —
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their success at dramatising the storieswithout-words of both quartets is much aided by exceptionally vivid studio engineering, achieved by Thore Brinkmann at Potton Hall. —
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