Presto CD, ASV (label)
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These are among the finest Haydn quartet recordings heard in years, performances which will quickly establish themselves as classics. They are consistently a degree more refined in texture and... —
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Building a Library, February 2000, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The sheer zest, colour and sensitivity of The Lindsays make it for me the outstanding ensemble in this repertoire —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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...the vitality and intelligence that these four players bring to Haydn's music are exceptional —
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Building a Library, January 2012, First Choice
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...The Lindsays are always compelling...inventive, exhilarating performances... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2001, Editor's Choice
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The Lindsays eclipse all comers in range of colour, vital, creative phrasing and emotional penetration.
They respond gleefully to the subversive comedy that pervades each of the three works... —Awards:
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Building a Library, January 2012, First Choice
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Mozart: String Quintet No. 4 in G minor & 'Spring' Quartet
RecommendedPatrick Ireland (viola)
The Lindsays
... this is a performance which goes on living in the mind, as well as the heart... A distinguished release —
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Building a Library, February 2005, Also Recommended
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Frank Martin: Complete Music for Piano & Orchestra
RecommendedSebastian Benda, Paul Badura-Skoda (pianos)
Svizzera Italiana Orchestra, Christian Benda
What Martin's music needs is performances of understanding but also affection, and ASV deserves congratulation for the shrewd casting of this disc. Sebastian Benda was a composition pupil of... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Crusell: Clarinet Concerto No. 2
Recommendedand works by Rossini, Weber and Baermann
Emma Johnson (clarinet)
English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves
It was this Crusell Grand Concerto which Emma Johnson played when she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 1984. That occasion was the first time she had played a concerto with... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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