Chamber, Duos, Cello & Piano Duos, Prokofiev (composer)
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Shostakovich & Kabalevsky: Cello Sonatas
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello) & Olli Mustonen (piano)
Isserlis and his long-term colleague Olli Mustonen make a compelling case for Kabalevsky’s Cello Sonata, finding such expressive drama that for once I was not distracted by the Sonata’s obvious... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2019, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 2nd February 2019, Disc of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st February 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Winner - Chamber
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[Gerhardt] matches [Rostropovich] note-for-note, with a degree of eye-watering finesse that would have surely made his hero smile. The same can be said for the mercurial moto perpetuo of Christian... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Rachmaninov & Prokofiev: Works for Cello and Piano
Johannes Moser (cello) & Andrei Korobeinikov (piano)
Johannes Moser and Andrei Korobeinikov bring both muscle and imagination to these two epic Russian sonatas —
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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As these heartfelt performances demonstrate, these are not cowed and dutifully conservative works…Van der Heijden plays with attractively songful tone throughout, rich yet grainy in her instrument’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Newcomer of the Year
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Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2012
RecommendedMaria João Pires (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Lily Maisky (piano), Sascha Maisky (violin), Lyda Chen (viola), Mischa Maisky (cello), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Polina Leschenko (piano), Ilya Gringolts (violin), Nathan Braude (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Nelson Goerner...
Several of the ensembles could have benefited from more sustained period of rehearsal, yet they still communicate vibrancy and the sheer enjoyment possible when fine musicians get together to... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th May 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Russian Cello Sonatas
RecommendedLynn Harrell (cello), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Fitzwilliam Quartet
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Building a Library, January 2007, Budget Choice
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Special offer. Russian Cello Sonatas
RecommendedTruls Mørk (cello) & Jean-Yves Thibaudet & Lars Vogt (piano)
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Building a Library, April 2017, First Choice
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Isserlis finds wonderful, darkly smouldering tone and line for Ravel's Two Melodies (originally for soprano voice) and the three Ernest Bloch pieces. He excels, too, in the busier idiom of Prokofiev's... —
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Ophélie Gaillard: Exiles
Ophélie Gaillard (cello)
Sirba Octet Members, Orchestre Philharmonique Monte-Carlo, James Judd
Gaillard’s glorious cello playing keeps the emotion raw and immediate throughout the programme, grabbing us by the scruff of the neck with a red-hot interpretation of Schelomo. Her tone is vivid,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2017
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Russian Ballads
Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Kissin
Gabriel Schwabe (cello), Roland Pöntinen (piano)
Schwabe's big, brawny tone and evident rapport with Pöntinen certainly pack a punch in the opening movements of the Prokofiev and Shostakovich sonatas in particular, but he's just as compelling... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
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