Chamber, Sonatas, Cello Sonatas, Franck, C (composer)
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Special offer. Cello Sonatas by Franck, Debussy & Poulenc
Anne Gastinel (cello) & Claire Désert (piano)
[Gastinel] and Claire Desert have a wonderfully intuitive partnership and both draw on subtle, inimitable soundworlds....Gastinel brings the right note of nonchalant simplicity to Debussy's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2012, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2012, Editor's Choice
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Both play [the Franck] with poetry and warmth but can turn solid where coolly patrician tone is needed, and the air only really clears in time for the floating, sweet lyricism of the finale.... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year (Capuçon)
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Special offer. Franck, Boulanger, Debussy & Vermeulen: Works for Cello and Piano
Lidy Blijdorp (cello), Tobias Borsboom (piano)
By turns dramatic and ethereal, Blijdorp insists you listen...The cello arrangement of Franck's Violin Sonata is tender, passionate and reflective. Adorned with consummate virtuosity, this performance... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2026, Chamber Choice
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Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 - Franck, Fauré & Poulenc
Bruno Philippe (cello), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, Tanguy de Williencourt (piano)
Philippe possesses a lovely tone in lyrical items such as Fauré’s Romance and Après un rêve, and technically is well up to all the challenges. His best interpretation is of the Poulenc Cello... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2024, Recording of the Month
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Musique de Chambre
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Young Talent
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Zimmermann & Gerstein: Sonatas for Viola & Piano Vol. 2
Tabea Zimmermann (viola) & Kirill Gerstein (piano)
These first-rate chamber musicians play these three late works with a rare sensitivity of understanding and delicacy of nuance. —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2013, Winner - Musique de chambre
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Fervent and passionate, [the Strohl] proves tremendously listenable; and here Moreau and Kadouch give it all they’ve got…[In the Franck] they seem at times too get up…The Poulenc, however, flowers... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2018, Editor's Choice
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