Download, Tartini (composer)
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the most striking aspects of Podger’s playing throughout this recital (compared to most 20th-century ‘golden-agers’), is her enhanced range of tone and articulation, her vastly more flexible... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Recording of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Instrumental
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Instrumental
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Special offer. Grandissima Gravita
RecommendedMusic by Pisenel, Tartini, Veracini & Vivaldi
Rachel Podger (violin)
Brecon Baroque
Her playing is intoxicated and intoxicating in equal measure, buoyed up by the wonderful improvisatory camaraderie of a continuo battery…Podger, inevitably, is the star, but ultimately the disc’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Sparks (and rosin) really do fly on this high-octane album of violin concertos by what Siranossian calls the 'four musketeers' of Venice - Veracini, Locatelli, Tartini and Vivaldi. It's perhaps... —
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Record Review, 27th May 2023, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto Recording of the Year
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The Italian Job
RecommendedBaroque Instrumental Music from the Italian States
Gail Hennessy, Rachel Chaplin (oboes) & Peter Whelan (bassoon)
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
The highlight of the disc for me is Chandler’s performance of a seldom-played E major Violin Concerto by Tartini: he explores fully the rich poetic content of its slow movement while projecting... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Guardian Angel: Rachel Podger
RecommendedMusic by Bach, Matteis, Tartini, Pisendel, Biber
Rachel Podger (violin)
Characteristically unforced and natural, the playing manages to sound endlessly considered yet spontaneous. There's a sureness to the placing of every note, whether poised or bristling with... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Instrumental Award Winner
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Lootens's expansive, mature take on Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Paganini homage, the multifaceted Capriccio diabolico, is not so much the programme's apotheosis as the casting of a musical eye back... —
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Tartini - Violin Concertos
Ariadne Daskalakis (violin)
Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Helmut Müller-Brühl
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Joshua Bell plays Vivaldi's Four Seasons
RecommendedJoshua Bell (violin and conductor) & John Constable (harpsichord continuo)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
If you like your Baroque music with a Romantic gloss, this will be for you. —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The romantic connotations of Tartini's Violin Sonata in G minor, the Devil's Trill, deriving from the composer's account of an appearance by the devil in a dream, have contributed towards making... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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He breezes through the salvo of technical challenges…Yet he also brings a refined musicality and a sense of period style to these concertos, so alongside the fireworks there’s playing of exquisite... —
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Nouveauté
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Concerto Choice
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