Chamber, Sonatas, 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 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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Zimmermann & Gerstein: Sonatas for Viola & Piano Vol. 1
RecommendedTabea Zimmermann (viola) & Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Tabea Zimmermann achieves these whirling arabesques effortlessly, and she and Kirill Gerstein transform the atmosphere with deft economy as Debussy’s ghost materialises in a mournful second... —
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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Rebecca Clarke: Works For Viola
Vinciane Béranger, Dana Ciocarlie (piano), David Louwerse, Helene Collerette
All of the works on this recording are beautifully crafted, and played in exemplary fashion by violist Vinciane Béranger and her colleagues. In recent years, Clarke’s music has received well-deserved... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2022
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These are passionate, focused, full-blooded readings without a hint of reticence or apology. Alexander Baillie and John Thwaites invest each work with the power of utter belief, and as a result... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, Chamber Choice
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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. Silhouettes
Music by Debussy, Milhaud, Clarke & Werkman
Dana Zemtsov (viola), Anna Fedorova (piano)
[Fedorova] specially captivating in the veiled quality to her tone with which she launches Clair de lune and the sensitive longing of Beau soir. Her rhythmic sense is best displayed in the Werkman... —
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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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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 –... —
