Chamber, Duos, Kurtág (composer)
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Steven Isserlis (cello), with Thomas Adès (piano)
Match [Ades's playing] with the mellow sound and manner of Steven Isserlis's cello, and you have something very special. Their choice of repertory here - devised as an extended upbeat to Ades's... —
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Building a Library, January 2013, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Disc of the Month
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Zwiegespräche: Holliger & Kurtág
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A lot of concentration is required to take in this programme of spartan, potent oboe works by Holliger and Kurtág. But there are real musical rewards, and it’s beautifully produced. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Contemporary Music
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist (Holliger)
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Special offer. Kopatchinskaja: Rapsodia
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[in the Enescu] both Kopatchinskaya and her partner Mihaela Ursuleasa [project] an instinctive feeling for the almost improvisatory musical line. Finally Ravel's Tzigane is presented not as... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2011, Editor's Choice
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György Kurtág: scenes
Viktoriia Vitrenko (soprano), David Grimal (vioiln), Luigi Gaggero (cimbalom), Niek de Groot (double bass)
Vitrenko responds to Scenes from a Novel with a jaw-dropping range of otherworldly sounds, from cabaret-like expression to dazzling dissolutions of tone…Fantasy seems uppermost for Vitrenko... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Contemporary Music
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Secret Memories
Dan Styffe (double bass) & Peter Herresthal (violin)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste
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FERNE STIMMEN – LIGETI Sonata for Viola Solo; KURTÁG, SCHUMANN, BRAHMS Chamber Works
Péter Bársony, Izabella Simon, Gabor Varga
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Un Brin de Bruyère
Luigi Gaggero (cimbalom), Andrea Moretti & Freyia Gunnlaugsdóttir (clarinets) & Michela La Fauci (harp)
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Hearing top-grade quartet violinists tackle these flavoured educational duos is a delight, though not an original one. (The Emerson's co-leaders Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer have already... —
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