Chamber, Quartets, Mozart (composer)
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Mozart Momentum - 1785
RecommendedLeif Ove Andsnes (piano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Truscott (violin), Joel Hunter (viola), Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello)
highlights include a finely attentive account of the G minor Piano Quartet, showing vivid collegiality between the performers; Andsnes’s C minor Fantasy, perfectly balanced and full of dramatic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Special Achievement Award
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These are unusually expansive works, their first movements each close on 15 minutes' music, prolific in their thematic matter and richly developed. They demand playing that shows a grasp of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2003, Editor's Choice
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A triumph, both musically and technically. Encapsulating the best of all worlds, the Armida play with the exquisite nuancing of the finest old-school outfits, yet with a take-nothing-for-granted... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, Instrumental Choice
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Their underlying musicianship is so superb that you find yourself absorbed in the mesmerising mastery of these works without any issues of style getting in the way. The group’s collective tone... —
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Record Review, 12th November 2022, Record of the Week
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Mozart Momentum - 1786
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano/director), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Christiane Karg (soprano), Matthew Truscott (violin), Joel Hunter (viola), Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello)
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Special Achievement Award
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Mozart: Piano Quartets
RecommendedDaniel Barenboim (piano), Michael Barenboim (violin), Yiulia Deyneka (viola) & Kian Soltani (cello)
There is no question from the start of the guiding force here: Daniel Barenboim, a great Mozart player early in his career, and once more now, manages to hold things together while being free... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Chamber Choice
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Building a Library, June 2019, Also Recommended (Modern Recording)
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Building a Library, October 2001, First Choice
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The Doric Quartet emphasises [the works'] unpredictability with their vivid and insightful interpretations that bristle with life and character. Although employing a wide palette of timbres...they... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Editor's Choice
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these players bring an astonishing variety of vibrato, nuance and colour. These are, indeed, distinctly Romanic readings that could have more doctrinaire authenticists tut-tutting. —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, Chamber Choice
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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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