Candida Thompson
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Special offer. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 & Walton: Serenade for Strings
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
Arrangements for string orchestra of works originally written for string quartet are not uncommon, especially in the cases of Beethoven and Schubert… But in the amazing scherzo, with its huge... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2006, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Mendelssohn: Piano Trios Opus 49 & 66
Hamlet Piano Trio: Paolo Giacometti (piano), Candida Thompson (violin) & Xenia Jankovic (cello)
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Special offer. Bottesini: Capriccio di Bravura
Rick Stotijn (double bass), Liza Ferschtman (violin), Monika Leskovar (cello), Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano) & Hans Eijsackers (piano)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
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Special offer. Tides of Life
RecommendedArrangements for string ensemble and baritone by David Matthews
Candida Thompson (violin) & Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Netherlands Female Youth Choir
In his orchestrations Matthews makes inspired and sensitive use of string colour and intimate solos…and in Schubert's Ständchen for vocal ensemble, the demure-sounding girls' choir, supported... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th February 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence & Verdi: String Quartet
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2004, Editor's Choice
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Vasks: Presence
RecommendedSol Gabetta (cello), Irène Timacheff-Gabetta (organ)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
There's a simplicity and immediacy to Vasks's musical languge, not that far removed in character and spirituality to the sound world explored in John Taverner's The Protecting Veil, which makes... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th November 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, Concerto Choice
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Special offer. The Argentinian Album
Candida Thompson (artistic director, violin)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Thompson lends a wild voluptuousness to this feel-good Argentinian collection. One of the best performances of Piazzolla's spicy Four Seasons on disc; Ginastera's string Concerto boasts a scherzo... —
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Special offer. Spiegel Im Spiegel
Tim Posner, Hülya Keser, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Netherlands Chamber Choir, Candida Thompson, Martina Batič
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Candida Thompson (violin 1), Henk Rubingh (Violin 2), Julian Rachlin (Viola), Maarten Jansen (Cello), Stacey Watton (Double Bass), Elizabeth Kenny (Theorbo), Jan Jansen (organ & harpsichord)
Jansen and friends offer this ever-popular work in a cut-down, chamber version that grows on you with each listening. The playing is full of vigour and imagination, and the sound merely adds... —
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Special offer. Lento Religioso: Works by Berg, Korngold, Bruckner
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
It’s something of a gamble to build an entire release around a programme showcasing a sequence of intense rather slow late-Romantic works. Yet the danger of emotional overkill is triumphantly... —
