Chamber, Schubert (composer)
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Schubert: Complete works for violin and piano
RecommendedAlina Ibragimova (violin) & Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Here we get all of Schubert's works written for violin and piano, in performances which it is hard to imagine ever being bettered...Alina Ibragimova and Cedric Tiberghien don't attempt to make... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th August 2013
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted
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Building a Library, January 2017, Also Recommended
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Chopin: Cello Sonata & Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello) & Dénes Várjon (piano)
The solemn Arpeggione is prefigured here by Isserlis’s arrangement of Chopin’s achingly beautiful ‘Nie ma czego trzeba’. Again in this Sonata, the duo offer graceful transparency, lithe refinement... —
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Record Review, 29th September 2018, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st December 2018
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Chamber
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The Chiaroscuro Quartet are particularly good at capturing the more forward-looking moments…Their use of gut strings and a historically-informed approach produces focused tone throughout; the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018
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Record Review, 17th November 2018, Disc of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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Smetana & Schubert: Piano Trios
RecommendedTrio Bohémo: Jan Vojtek - Piano, Matouš Peruška – Violin, Kristina Vocetková – Cello
Written during a very turbulent period in the composer’s life, Smetana’s 1855 Piano Trio is a work of considerable mood swings and unexpected twists and turns. At times, it is also heartbreakingly... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd August 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024, Debut Album
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Special offer. Schubert: Works for Piano Trio & Arpeggione Sonata
RecommendedChristian Tetzlaff (violin), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Lars Vogt (piano)
In all, a deeply personal survey of this wonderful music and a beautiful way to remember a great pianist. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Chamber Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Winner - Chamber Music
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Chamber
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The Takács have recorded it before. Back in 1997 for Decca its tensile urgency was to the fore...But the experience of nearly three decades has intervened, as has changes of personnel. The result... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Chamber
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The Lewis-Osborne duo establishes a slyly (or should that be shyly?) wistful mood in the Andante varie in B minor, revels in the bravura writing of the Variations in A flat...and transforms... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th November 2010
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2010, Editor's Choice
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Schubert: Octet
Isabelle Faust (violin), Anne Katharina Schreiber (violin), Danusha Waskiewicz (viola), Kristin von der Goltz (cello), Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet), Javier Zafra (bassoon), Teunis van der Zwart (horn), James Munro (double bass)
There is much to admire here: some exquisitely wistful clarinet phrasing from Coppola, and a frightening fierceness in the sudden outburst that heralds the finale, where Schubert seems momentarily... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Schubert: Death And The Maiden & String Quintet In C Major
Recommendedwith Danjulo Ishizaka (cello)
Pavel Haas Quartet
The Pavel Haas Quartet, with the superb extra cellist Danjulo Ishizaka, even succeed where most other ensembles fail, making the last movement of the String Quintet into something that seems... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Chamber
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The Hollywood String Quartet play Schoenberg and Schubert
RecommendedAlvin Dinkin, Kurt Reher
The Hollywood String Quartet
This 1951 mono recording set the benchmark for many years, and so it probably did much to establish the current, questionable norms of tempo. But it's superb performance, played with skill... —
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Building a Library, February 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, October 2007, Historic Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Historic non-vocal
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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