Chamber, Duos, Ligeti (composer)
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Bleuse draws playing of greater spontaneity if only slightly less precision than Pierre Boulez in that previous EIC recording of the Chamber Concerto...this is a persuasive means for getting... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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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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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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Special offer. Kopatchinskaja: Rapsodia
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Emilia Kopatchinskaja (violin & viola), Viktor Kopatchinsky (cimbalom), Martin Gjakonovski (double bass) & Mihaela Ursuleasa (piano)
[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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On paper this may look like an unlikely musical partnership...yet put them together and the result is musical dynamite...this captivating recital really goes into overdrive with Ravel’s Sonata...More... —
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What can a cellist achieve alone? A polyphonic, technicolour panorama in Christian-Pierre La Marca’s idiosyncratic tour through the distant and immediate musical past...Stand-out among the performances... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Concept Album of the Year
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Ligeti: Keyboard Works
RecommendedPierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Irina Kataeva (piano), Elisabeth Chojnacka (harpsichord), Zsigmond Szathmáry (organ)
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Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
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The German-born cellist keeps the big picture more or less in focus; it’s just some of the details that are fuzzy...Schwabe is at his most impressive in the Adagio, where his pacing and concise... —
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This uncommonly well-planned and well-recorded recital may have arisen from a competition winner (of the 2005
Deutscher Musikwettbewerb) wishing to display the range of his abilities, but it... —
