Chamber, Duos, Cello & Piano Duos, Clarke, Rebecca (composer)
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A Lionel Tertis Celebration
RecommendedTimothy Ridout (viola), Frank Dupree (piano), James Baillieu (piano)
From imposing sonatas to salon bonbons, these recordings constitute a deft salute not just to Tertis the man and multifaceted musician, but also to an enduring legacy which lives on in distinguished... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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This is one of those rare programmes in which the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. —
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Record Review, 4th February 2023, Record of the Week
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This recital is worth investigating as much for the repertoire as for Thibeault’s big-boned, visceral playing: Schumann’s Romances for Violin and Piano transfer quite beautifully to the viola,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2019
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Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata, Dumka, Chinese Puzzle & other chamber works
Philip Dukes (viola), Sophia Rahman (piano), Daniel Hope (violin) & Robert Plane (clarinet)
…Dukes and his colleagues… present an attractive, rounded (and clearly recorded) portrait of a composer whose music is well worth getting to know. —
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Special offer. A Cello Galaxy of British Women Composers
Catherine Wilmers (cello), Jill Morton (piano)
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Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata & Bridge: Cello Sonata
Natalie Clein (cello), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
Bridge’s Cello Sonata incline more to rhapsody than rhetoric, and draws particularly heartfelt playing from Clein and Hadland in the lingeringly regretful opening of the second movement…[The... —
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Special offer. British Cello Works
Smyth - Lutyens - Maconchy - Clarke
Lionel Handy (cello), Jennifer Hughes (piano)
This is a fascinating quartet of cello-piano duos spanning a period of seismic shifts in music…[Smyth’s] debt to Mendelssohn and Brahms is palpable, but this is highly intuitive writing for... —
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There’s a visionary grandeur to [the Rhapsody], a sonata in all but name. In comparison to the restless modality of her Viola Sonata. It’s not only case on a bigger canvas but is also harmonically... —
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Rebecca Clarke: Chamber Music
Lorraine McAslan (violin), Michael Ponder (viola), Justin Pearson (cello), Justin Farrell (clarinet, Ian Jones (piano)
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This beautifully played sequence of viola works, all but one with piano, is an English Delight of instant appeal, but delves deep into tradition. The French La Marca reveals acute feeling for... —
