Chamber, Quartets, String Quartets, Elgar (composer)
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This is one of those rare discs that give pleasure and food for thought in equal measure...when [Elgar's chamber music] is played with the kind of understanding shown by these five musicians... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, Disc of the month
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Special offer. Elgar & Tchaikovsky: Cello Works
Johannes Moser (cello)
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Andrew Manze
Moser is an unfailingly elegant soloist…the Tchaikovsky Variations have a suitably Rococo grace and spirit —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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exceptionally searching readings...These are dedicated performances which understandingly bring out the contrast between the expansive Quintet, bold in rhetoric, and the more intimate Quartet,... —
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Building a Library, April 2003, First Choice
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Elgar: From the Archives, Vol. 1
Marjorie Hayward (violin), Una Bourne (piano)
Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, The London String Quartet, New Queen's Hall Orchestra, Sir Edward Elgar, Henry Wood
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The Quartet’s first movement is Elgar at his most elliptical, and the Brodskys catch its unpredictable oscillations expertly…The fiery finale invites bombast, but the Brodskys combine bite and... —
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The ‘floating on air’ quality that suffuses the music of Fauré’s quartet is diff icult to catch, but it’s sustained across all three movements of this constantly stimulating interpretation. —
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Eloquent and sensitive performances of some of the finest British chamber works of our century —
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Ripely captured by the microphones, the Villiers Quartet are on dedicated form and their reading of the work as we know it today is likewise a laudable one…for Delius diehards the disc will... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2017
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Special offer. In Memoriam Françoise Groben
Françoise Groben, Ivan Gajan (piano), Alfredo Perl (piano), Ira Maria Witoschynskyi (piano), Mourja Gras (violin), Peter Laul, Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Matthias Metzger (violin), Ruth Kilius (viola), Christiane Meininger (flute), Rainer Gepp (piano), RTL Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de chambre...
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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the Maggini Quartet impress with the luminous refinement and beguiling tonal beauty of their music-making —
