Chamber, Quintets, Wind Quintets
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Les Vents Français: French Music for Winds & 20th Century Wind Quintets
RecommendedLes Vents Français (Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Francois Leleux (oboe), Gilbert Audin (bassoon), Radovan Vlatkovic (horn)
individually, they play with attractive timbre and immaculate intonation and articulation. Collectively, they blend their colours with great finesse, within dynamics ranging from cushioned pianissimo... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th January 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Hindemith's series of Kammermusik ('Chamber Music') began in 1921 as an iconoclastic response to the hyperintense emotionalism of German Expressionist music over the previous 15 years. It continued... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Orchestral
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Ligeti - Clear or Cloudy
RecommendedMatt Haimovitz, Jacques Zoon, Douglas Boyd, Richard Hosford, James Sommerville, Matthew Wilkie, Claudio Abbado, Helmut Franz, Gerd Zacher, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Håkan Hardenberger, Roland Pöntinen, Jacques Zoon & Douglas Boyd, Aloys Kontarsky, Alfons Kontarsky, Gianluca Cascioli, Pierre-Laurent...
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Orchestral Choice
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Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
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An enjoyable jaunt through 30 years of rarely heard Holst chamber music, from the affable Quintet in A minor to the sinewy Terzetto for flute, oboe and clarinet. —
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Special offer. Hindemith: Kammermusik I-II-III; Kleine Kammermusik
Xi Zhai, Christopher Park, Bruno Philippe, Kronberg Academy Soloists, Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
Eschenbach’s focus is very fixedly on the earlier, wilder Hindemith in this first disc of a two-volume set...Tempos are swift and lively, the touch light not heavyhanded, relishing the fervid... —
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Ligeti: Six Bagatelles, Kammerkonzert & Dix pièces pour quintette à vent
François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Marion Ralincourt, Christian Laborie, Michaël Rolland, Pierre Rougerie and Hélène Mourot, Pierre Rougerie, Michaël Rolland and Hélène Mourot, Hélène Mourot and Christian Laborie, Hélène Mourot, Michaël Rolland and Pierre Rougerie,...
This new recording is comparable with the best…perhaps its most characteristic movement is the third which shows Ligeti’s fascination with mechanical objects, its out-of-phase repeated notes... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, Chamber Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Chamber
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The crisp recorded sound offers superb clarity across all lines, as the five instruments deftly pass themes from one to another. It's clear the ensemble have considered the original piano version... —
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Ferenc Farkas: Complete Wind Quintets
Dieter Lange (double-bass), Daniel Dodds (violin), Ulrike Schneider (mezzo)
Phoebus Quintet
In volume of output, Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000) is something of a Hungarian Villa-Lobos, and his Serenade from 1951 has a touch of the Brazilian composer's fluid fecundity of invention. The... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, Chamber Choice
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