Chamber, Webern (composer)
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All the pieces on this final instalment of the ‘Prism’ series stand on a threshold, and in this Op 135 Beethoven does so with the vitality and humour of the Diabelli Variations. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Ensemble of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music Recording of the Year
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Special offer. The Mathilde Album - Webern, Schoenberg & Zemlinsky
Elsa Dreisig (soprano)
Quatuor Arod
On this occasion the limelight is stolen from Schoenberg by Zemlinsky...This music requires little excuse to become overheated, and it is much to the Arod’s credit that they resist the temptation... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Schoenberg, Berg & Webern: Complete Works for String Quartet
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Quatuor Diotima
The extreme refinement and minutely focused intensity, in recordings to match, make the Webern a singularly beautiful, if somewhat unsettling experience. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Their reading of Webern's Five Pieces here bears comparison with the finest on record...Throughout, the performance left me admiring anew the originality and concentration of Webern's score. —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2026, Editor's Choice
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Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata & other works for cello and piano
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
a masterstroke of programme planning —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2006, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2001, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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their new account under Heinz Holliger unfolds at relatively steady tempos, with more compositional logic than late Romantic passion...[Holliger's] deployment of a relatively small string line-up... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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The Second Viennese School
RecommendedSchoenberg, Berg & Webern
Karita Mattila (Tove), Anne Sofie von Otter (Waldtaube), Thomas Moser (Waldemar), Philip Langridge (Klaus-Narr), Thomas Quasthoff (Bauer/Sprecher), Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Gidon Kremer (violin), Franz Mazura (narrator)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig,...
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Orchestral
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Building a Library, March 2017, First Choice
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If IKEA were to make a cello, this would be it…Sow how does it sound? In Steven Isserlis’s hands, remarkably fine – though he only uses it for a handful of evocative miniatures…On Isserlis’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, Chamber Choice
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