SACD, Audite (label)
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The Quartetto di Cremona’s ongoing Beethoven cycle has particularly impressed me for its visceral excitement and pulsating energy…[they demonstrate] consummate mastery of soft mysterious playing,... —
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, 2018
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Romain Descharmes is a 29-year-old French pianist admirably attuned to the more subtle and elusive sides of Ravel's genius. In Gaspard Ondine's watery entreaty spurts and bubbles seductively... —
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Special offer. Paradisi Gloria
Sacred music by Emperor Leopold I
Ulrike Hofbauer, Lisandro Abadie, Alex Potter, Hans-Jörg Mammel, Monika Mauch
Emperor Leopold I
Cappella Murensis, Les Cornets Noirs
A four-part Stabat mater in B minor (1678) is an episodic setting that offers plangent consummate skill by the fine company of soloists…the assorted instrumentalists and the choir demonstrate... —
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Suave New York sophistication … In terms of piano playing, the aura of shimmering beauty created by means of a seemingly infinite variety of touch is the disc’s summit achievement … Murtfield... —
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Beethoven's most experimental in the medium. The playing, as ever, is blisteringly detailed and right in your face: you can feel the grain of the music and actually hear the fierce tension of... —
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Aadland has the advantage of truly first-class orchestral playing: the Cologne WDR Sinfonieorchester is a fine orchestra indeed, and its account of the Lyric Suite is notable for its excellence... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2013, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Stamitz: Quartets for Clarinet
Arthur Campbell (clarinet), Gregory Maytan (violin), Paul Swantek (viola) & Pablo Mahave-Veglia (cello)
Campbell’s fluid playing has a lovely warm tone and the supporting strings are not over-vibrant. This is music which certainly deserves to be much better known. —
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Special offer. Beethoven: Complete String Quartets Volume 5
Lawrence Dutton (viola)
Quartetto di Cremona
This is the most exciting new disc of string quartet playing that I have come across for a long time —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, Chamber Choice
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A long and fascinating journey comes to an end. These interpretations are powerful, vibrating, excitingly intense and inspiring from the very first to the very last note, providing decisive... —
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, 2018
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Special offer. Rathgeber: Messe von Muri & Concertos
Maria Schmid (soprano), Alex Potter (alto), Hans-Jörg Mammel (tenor), Marcus Niedermeyr (bass), Christian Leitherer (clarinet), Péter Barczi (violin), Henry Moderlak (trumpet), Éva Borhi (violin), Thilo Hirsch (tromba marina)
Ensemble Arciboldo, Cappella Murensis, Johannes Strobl
