Chamber, Rossini (composer)
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Il Cannone - Francesca Dego plays Paganini's violin
Francesca Dego (violin), Francesca Leonardi (piano)
Dego has an expressive touch, skittering over the strings, yet finding plenty of attack in Szymanowski’s Trois Caprices. Corigliano’s Red Violin Caprices are at times spellbinding, descending... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2021
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Rossini: String Sonatas
and works by Bellini, Donizetti and Cherubini
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
We have a very soft spot for the sparkle, elegance and wit of these ASMF performances of the Rossini String Sonatas, amazingly accomplished products for a 12-year-old. Marriner offers them on... —
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To encounter a programme featuring some of the core works in the horn repertoire played on historically appropriate instruments with such effortless musicianship and technical ease really takes... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Chamber
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Special offer. Rossini: String Sonatas
and works by Mendelssohn, Wolf and Bottesini
Luciano Vicari (violin), Lucio Buccarella (double bass)
I Musici
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Rossini & Hoffmeister: Quartets with Double Bass, Vol. 2
Minna Pensola (violin I), Antti Tikkanen (violin II/ viola), Tuomas Lehto (cello) & Niek de Groot (double bass)
In later life Rossini dismissed the quartets as ‘terrible’, but the truth – as made plain by the excellent performances on this recording – is that this music is much more than a mere prentice... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, Chamber Choice
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Pratt's soprano has a very lively, glittering surface...pinpoint flickers of brilliance in Eva Dell'Acqua's 'Villanelle', a confident high E flat in Rossini's 'La fioraia fiorentina'. —
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Juan Diego Flórez: Italia
RecommendedJuan Diego Flórez (tenor), Avi Avital (mandolin), Ksenija Sidorova (accordion), Craig Ogden (guitar)
Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini, Carlo Tenan
The sun shines brightly out of Flórez’s open-hearted singing, capturing the carefree élan of Neapolitan songs...Mandolin, guitar and accordion add a piquant flavour to some bubbly orchestrations.... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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The Clarinotts
RecommendedThe Clarinotts: Ernst Ottensamer, Daniel Ottensamer and Andreas Ottensamer (clarinets), František Jánoška (piano)
Wiener Virtuosen Streichensemble
an engaging and joyous experience...As well as the natural rapport that comes from a lifetime of music-making together, the Ottensamers are also old hands at arranging and extemporising existing... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st January 2016
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1824 - Works For Cello & Guitar
Christoph Dangel (cello), Els Biesemans (fortepiano), Katya Polin (viola), Stefan Preyer (double bass), Stephan Schmidt (guitar)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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