Chamber, Sonatas, Vaughan Williams (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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Special offer. Elgar & Vaughan Williams: Works for Violin & Piano
Jennifer Pike (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano)
Rare and well-known repertoire with a twist combine in an irresistible release. —
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Special offer. Ralph Vaughan Williams: the Grinke Legacy
Frederick Grinke, Arthur Benjamin, Michael Mullinar, Boyd Neel Orchestra, Louis Boyd Neel
Grinke, a seasoned chamber player, turns in a perfect performance [of The Lark Ascending], his tone warmly attractive but his approach suitably laid back...With excellent transfers and comprehensive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Subito! Julia Hwang
Music for violin and piano by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Lutosławski & Wieniawski
Julia Hwang (violin) & Charles Matthews (piano)
The appeal here, quite aside from some excellent playing, is in the way the programme has been planned…Julia Hwang is a model of expressive purity in the solo part [of The Lark Ascending] while... —
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Seventy-seven minutes of British music for flute and piano might at first glance seem like 40 minutes too much. But that ’s without taking on board the nimble and dazzling skills of flautist... —
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Written in 1952 when Vaughan Williams turned 80, the Violin Sonata was his last completed piece of chamber music . Its opening ‘Fantasia’ movement is tricky to pin down temperamentally, but... —
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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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Je n'aime toujours pas le classique, mais ça j'aime bien!
Nigel Woodhouse (mandolin), Salvatore Accardo (violin), Orchestra da Camera Italiana, John Alldis (chorus master), Alicia de Larrocha (piano), Collegium Aureum (early music ensemble), Steven Isserlis (cello), Michael Tilson Thomas (piano), Dudley Moore (piano), Clyde Holloway (organ), Jean-Marc Luisada...
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Nisbeth’s tone isn’t especially lush or velvety but it’s endlessly nuanced, and Forsberg, too, commands an enormously subtle tonal palette…Fresh, thoughtful perspectives on some ravishing –... —
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