Chamber, Mozart (composer)
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Special offer. Mozart: String Quintets K515 & K516
RecommendedQuatuor Ebène, Antoine Tamestit (viola)
The performances on this new release are as accomplished as we would expect from players of this calibre. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Building A Library, January 2024, Recommended Recording (String Quintet No. 3)
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Chamber
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It is difficult to imagine [these sonatas] better played —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th April 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2017, Winner - Jahrespreis
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Special offer. Mozart 'The Weber Sisters'
RecommendedSabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
the concert-aria and operatic readings themselves are gems, each one thrown off with a splendid combination of technical brilliance, musicianly assurance and tonal sweetness, and impeccably... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th November 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Recital
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On the evidence here, there’s no mistaking the level of musicianship that inspires such near-reverence among Rados’s admirers. Gerstein admirably reins in his own powerhouse virtuoso skills... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Piano
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These are unusually expansive works, their first movements each close on 15 minutes' music, prolific in their thematic matter and richly developed. They demand playing that shows a grasp of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2003, Editor's Choice
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‘time and again [they] demonstrate that a more intimate approach works wonders in capturing the essence of these exquisitely melodious and immaculately structured scores…By the time he composed... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Record Review, 9th September 2017, Recording of the Week
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Their combined musical imagination feels so intertwined that it emerges seemingly as the natural extension of a single interpretative personality…so keenly attuned are Tiberghien and Ibragimova... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Clarinet Quintet
RecommendedThea King (basset clarinet)
English Chamber Orchestra, Gabreili String Quartet, Jeffrey Tate
The two works on this disc represent Mozart's clarinet writing at its most inspired; however, the instrument for which they were written differed in several respects from the modern clarinet,... —
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Building a Library, September 2006, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2019, Also Recommended
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Wonderful performances: delicacy in the Mozart as well as a feel for the Sonata's near-orchestral scale. A magisterial reading of Schubert's Fantasie. —
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Instrumental
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Mozart: Sonatas For Fortepiano & Violin, Vol. 4
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano)
As early reviews pointed out, these sonatas are true democratic duos. One of the many delights here is the instinctive ease with which the players slip from protagonist to accompanist, and back... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
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