Chamber, Duos, Cello & Piano Duos, Bloch, E (composer)
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Schwartz’s warm, silky playing matches Fedorova’s rounded piano touch. The top of the bass range lacks the penetrating quality of its smaller relatives, but Schwartz compensates with gravitas... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Bloch/Bruch: Schelomo, Kol Nidrei & other works
Natalie Clein (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov
As one might expect, Clein delivers a powerfully committed performance, but also manages to avoid over-indulgence, negotiating the peaks and troughs of the music's volatile emotional language... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2012, Editor's Choice
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An ideal background to sipping a café crème and nibbling a croissant. —
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He delivers Bloch’s epic Schelomo with magnificent command, tracing its ark from lamentation to shrill anger back to resignation. Michael Sanderling and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra bring... —
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Record Review, 22nd January 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Elgar: Cello Concerto
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Ben Davies (cello), Hannah Roberts (cello), Josephine Knight (cello), Caroline Dearnley (cello), Ashok Klouda (cello), Toby Hughes (double bass), The Heath Quartet, Gary Pomeroy (viola), Oliver Heath (violin), Sara Wolstenholme (violin), Chris Murray (cello), Plinio Fernandes...
He takes the view that a noble reticence suits Elgar’s emotional world just as well as the huge intensity of Jacqueline du Pré, whose early recording he cites as an inspiration. Often this approach... —
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Diapason d’Or, March 2020, Nouveauté
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Warum toben die Völker - Psalm in Dialogue with Music by Ernest Bloch
Julius Berger, Andrei Pushkarev, Pavel Beliaev, Annette Schavan
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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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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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