SACD, Ysaÿe (composer)
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Trio Boccherini's title promises conversation but the album's achievement goes beyond social chatter: three exposed string lines generate atmosphere without thickening into quartet imitation. —
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Park is adept at guiding us through the complex solo line with lucidity, contouring phrases and providing a wide dynamic and timbral range to enthral. —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2025, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2025, Editor's Choice
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This is sensational!...at no point in the programme do you feel that the technical and intellectual demands are in any way compromising her interpretations, which are wholly excellent. —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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At its centre [the Bacewicz] is a searing slow movement, rich and haunting, but the rest of the work crackles with energy, and the Sinfonia of London (at times divided into 17 parts) under John... —
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it's good to hear even a little sense of struggle as he conquers Ysaye's demanding writing. The ten short movements of Auerbach's par.ti.ta refract Bach through a contemporary prism and Gluzman... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2012, Editor's Choice
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He comes into his own in the passionate, rhapsodic style of the Third Sonata, dedicated to Georges Enescu, and the assumption of Fritz Kreisler's vibrato-laden personality in the Fourth, where... —
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On this disc [Ysaÿe's Violin Sonatas] are revealed in all their creative ingenuity, force and vibrant virtuosity by one of the great talents of the new generation...All six sonatas make phenomenal... —
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Saeijs's is a memorable interpretation. She smoothly negotiates the works' fiendish challenges without once compromising her lustrous tone. At the same time she is faithful to the spirit of... —
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There is a terrific presence to this SACD recording, perfectly complementing Tarara’s confidence in the opening gestures of the first sonata. Tarara’s way with stopping, so vital in this music,... —
