Chamber, Duos, Liszt (composer)
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Lieux retrouvés
RecommendedMusic for cello & piano
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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Childhood memories are summoned, plus people and places…Indeed, there’s so much playfulness and charm here that the listener might well pant for some extra ballast from meatier things. It comes... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
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A bold and dramatic account of Mozart's K475C minor Fantasia opens this memorable and imaginatively devised recital. —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, Instrumental Choice
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Authenticity is present in an Érard piano, date unspecified, and a Stradivarius violin, the ‘Davidoff’, which has been held in the Paris Conservatoire museum since 1887, when one of the first... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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though Piau takes few risks with colour and time, her sound is always brilliant. Kadouch, too, is strict with tempo but superb with colour. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Song
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Throughout, her sure technical control, phrasing judiciously moulded, and varied tone colour enliven her choices. —
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The songs are chosen, for the most part, with Véronique Gens’s voice in mind – no longer the bright soprano of 20 years ago, but now a warm and expressive mezzo, ideal in the more soulful melodies... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th April 2020
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Diapason d’Or, May 2020, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Unplayed Stories ... in 40 Fingers
Alon Kariv (piano), Tomer Lev (piano), Berenika Glixman (piano), Nimrod Meiry-Haftel (piano), MultiPiano Ensemble, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ivor Bolton
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The major discovery here is Hans Sitt's Op. 39 Albumblatter, six Schumannesque miniatures that Zimmermann nurtures and caresses with a bewitching range of tonal colours, further enhanced by... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, Chamber Choice
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I constantly admired his near orchestral range of sonority - his strength in grandiloquence and his hypnotic sustaining power in intimacy. Everything is played with total conviction —
