Chamber, Smyth (composer)
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Tasmin Little plays Clara Schumann, Dame Ethel Smyth & Amy Beach
RecommendedTasmin Little (violin) & John Lenehan (piano)
This delightful, beautifully performed album makes an emphatic, seemingly effortless case for these composers’ music. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, Chamber Choice
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
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The Neave’s way with [the Smyth] is expansive, with an attractive warmth of tone in the interlocking string phrases of the outer movements and playing at once weighty and admirably restrained... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Smyth: String Quartet & String Quintet
Joachim Griesheimer (cello)
Mannheim String Quartet
The Mannheimers respond devotedly and with the freshness of a new discovery. —
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First Ladies
Three Romantic Violin Sonatas by Elfrida Andrée, Mel Bonis and Ethel Smyth
Annette-Barbara Vogel (violin), Durval Cesetti (piano)
All three of these composers lived well into the 20th century, yet these sonatas exude a thoroughly Romantic glow. All three women had to overcome considerable difficulties in getting their... —
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This enterprising programme of British cello sonatas encompasses a mixed bag of styles from the tonal writing of Armstrong Gibbs, which hints at Fauré, to the ethereal, impressionistic style... —
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Building a Library, March 2017, Recommended
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Special offer. British Cello Works
Smyth - Lutyens - Maconchy - Clarke
Lionel Handy (cello), Jennifer Hughes (piano)
This is a fascinating quartet of cello-piano duos spanning a period of seismic shifts in music…[Smyth’s] debt to Mendelssohn and Brahms is palpable, but this is highly intuitive writing for... —
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They Persisted
Joanna Goldstein (piano), Steven Moeckel (violin), Nicholas Finch (cello), Bruce Heim (horn)
The performances of all three works on the disc are superb. The musicians are not only technically masterful, they play with an unbounded energy, joy, and intensity that is absolutely riveting.... —
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