Chamber, Quintets, Piano Quintets, Elgar (composer)
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The ensemble brings an extraordinary range and depth of sound to Beach’s closely-worked score…Ohlsson and the Takács Quartet are vividly alert to the [Elgar]’s sense of story…This is a performance... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, Chamber Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2020
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Winner - Chamber
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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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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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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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Elgar: Cello Concerto & Piano Quintet
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello), Carolin Widmann (violin), David McCarroll (violin), Pauline Sachse (viola) & Martin Helmchen (piano)
Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Edo De Waart
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this warm, earthy performance has all the raw excitement you’d expect from a concert recording. The string voices aren’t always perfectly blended – but that ’s no bad thing as they scale the... —
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Schumann & Elgar - Piano Quintets
Lars Vogt (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), with Radoslav Szulc, Tatjana & Claudio Bohorquez
Lars Vogt is equally subtle and acutely penetrating in Schumann and Elgar… Teztlaff and his fellow strings have almost ideal tone and expressive touch in the first-movement second theme of... —
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the Maggini Quartet impress with the luminous refinement and beguiling tonal beauty of their music-making —
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Elgar: Piano Quintet, Spanish Lady Suite, La Capricieuse, Elegy & Serenade Op.20
Academy of St.Martin in-the-Fields & Royal Ballet Sinfonia, The Schubert Ensemble, Neville Marriner & Gavin Sutherland
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