Chamber, Trios, Bartók (composer)
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[The playing] can affectionately embrace the whimsical to the manner born, but equally bristles with spellbinding virtuosity, compelling insight and crests a lifeforce carrying all before it. —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Radu Lupu: The Unreleased Recordings
Decca Masters and Radio Tapes 1970-2002
Radu Lupu (piano), Tel Aviv String Quartet, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Kazimierz Kord
The very qualities that limited his discography - doubt, self-criticism, an acute fear of exposure - are precisely those that give these recordings their emotional charge. Heard now, they do... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Archive Issue of the Month
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Special offer. Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Martinu: Memorial to Lidice & Klein: Partita
Philadelphia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
Eschenbach opens with Martinů's Memorial to Lidice… this performance serves to intensify an overriding feeling of despair, the Philadelphians responding with a chilling incisiveness particularly... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2006, Editor's Choice
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All in all, this is an intelligently devised, brilliantly executed and warmly recorded disc, raising hopes that the Notos Quarttett can come up trumps again with further worthwhile discoveries. —
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Benny Goodman - Collector's Edition
RecommendedBenny Goodman (clarinet), Joseph Szigeti (violin), Béla Bartók (piano)
Columbia Jazz Combo, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky, Morton Gould
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Gramophone Awards, 1980, Winner - Historic non-vocal
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Itzhak Perlman & Pinchas Zukerman play music for two violins
RecommendedItzhak Perlman Vol. 20
Itzhak Perlman (violin), Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Samuel Sanders (piano)
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Grammy Awards, 23rd Awards (1980), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Bartók & Ligeti: Ensemble Intercontemporain
Jérôme Comte (clarinet), Diego Tosi (violin) & Sébastien Vichard (piano), Gilles Durot, Samuel Favre (percussions) & Dimitri Vassilakis, Sébastien Vichard (pianos), Hidéki Nagano (piano), Pierre Strauch (cello), Jeanne-Marie Conquer (violin)
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher
Others may have taken the opening Vivace of Ligeti's Piano Concerto at more of a lick, but the precision here packs a punch, and there's a sheer sense of fun as the final two movements develop... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Martha Argerich: Carte blanche
RecommendedJulian Rachlin (violin), Mischa Maisky (violoncello) & Martha Argerich (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Lang Lang & Martha Argerich (piano), Yuri Bashmet (viola) & Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin) & Martha Argerich (piano), Gabriela Montero & Martha Argerich (pianos),...
As soloist, Argerich’s tender reading of Kinderszenen is almost beyond compare, displaying an astonishing ability to turn the piano into a singing instrument in every bar. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th July 2015
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100 Violin Masterworks
Isaac Stern (violin), Itzhak Perlman (violin), Nathan Milstein (violin), Georges Pludermacher (piano), David Garrett (violin), Daniel Hope (violin), Jacques Ammon (piano), Gidon Kremer (violin), Leslie Pearson (organ & harpsichord), Radoslaw Szulc (concertmaster), Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Kammerorchester...
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