Instrumental, Keyboard Solos, Purcell (composer)
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He uses the capabilities of the modern Steinway judiciously, maintaining some of the qualities of the spinet and harpsichord of Purcell’s time whilst using but not over-using the vast tonal... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th August 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Special offer. Henry Purcell: The Complete Suites and Other Music For Keyboard
RecommendedCristian Sandrin (piano)
In the first complete recording of Purcell’s eight keyboard suites on the modern piano, Romanian pianist Cristian Sandrin sets the bar impressively high. His accounts blend an instinctive grasp... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2025, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Nowadays, Fretwork takes a brisker view of the music though not perhaps a crisper one where matters of articulation are concerned. The playing in its new recording, with partly different personnel... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2009, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Chamber
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Pavans and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland
RecommendedJohn Holloway (violin, viola), Monika Baer (violin, Renate Steinmann (violin), Susanna Hefti (viola), Martin Zeller (bass violin)
Dowland himself was prepared to countenance performances with violin consort. This is the less familiar route Holloway and his colleagues have chosen, deploying four violas atop a bass violin...The... —
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Building a Library, October 2017, Also Recommended
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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In his selection of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, Freire, like Gilels before him, explores a whole world of intimate feeling and a melancholy at the heart of Grieg’s indelibly northern nature (‘At your... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Purcell - Complete Chamber Music
Musica Amphion
Rémy Baudet (violin), Sayuri Yamagata (violin), Elisabeth Ingenhousz (violin) Rainer Zipperling (viola da gamba), Johannes Boer (viola da gamba), Nanneke Schaap (viola da gamba), Ricardo Rodriguez (viola da gamba), Nicholas Milne (viola da gamba), Frank Wakelkamp (viola da gamba)
Pieter-Jan...
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Special offer. Purcell: The Cares of Lovers
Rowan Pierce (soprano), William Carter (theorbo)
Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
Pierce’s voice is delicious: clear, strong, supple, with sparkling top notes and a warm, textured middle and low register. She’s mistress of her words, bending vowels and clipping consonants... —
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Can be recommended without reservation … the wonderful By beauteous softness, from Queen Mary’s Birthday Ode of 1689, given this performance, I could quite easily listen to for ever … there’s... —
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