Laks
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Almost every track in this extensively annotated and superbly performed two-disc set demonstrates Laks’s special gift for capturing the emotional essence of the poetry to which he felt the closest... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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First up is the famous Chopin, which in Wallfisch's hands flows like a river of silk, pulsing with a burnished warmth, spontaneity and vigour. His long partnership with York is shown at its... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrumental
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Editorial Achievement
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Ecoles de Paris – Paris Pour Ecole
Adele Bitter (cello), Holger Groschopp (piano), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Johannes Zurl
the star of the album, Stravinsky apart, is undoubtedly the Pole Szymon Laks, who ended the war conducting the prisoners’ orchestra in Auschwitz...The playing in all these pieces, and in Ibert... —
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Simon Laks, Mieczyslaw Weinberg & Ewelina Nowicka: Works for Violin & Chamber Orchestra
Ewelina Nowicka, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio, Anna Duczmal-Mróz, Agnieszka Duczmal
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The ARC Ensemble brings out [the Passacaille’s] depths, just as the players are on scintillating form elsewhere…a highlight is the post-Ravelian piano Sonatina, played with a light touch by... —
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Silent Night – A Fine Christmas Selection
Adriana von Franqué, Caroline Fischer, Anna Christiane Neumann, Ramón Ortega Quero, Mark Schumann, Martin Klett, Annette Unternährer-Gfeller, Antje Moldenhauer-Schrell, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Musica Lingua, L'arpa festante, Quintessenz - Leipziger Querflötenensemble, Sächsische Bläserphilharmonie,...
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Poland’s young Messages Quartet play with warmth and bring out the true qualities of Lak’s quartet writing, including the transparency of No. 5…the slow movement of No. 3 is wistfully haunting.... —
