Chamber, Quartets, Schnittke (composer)
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A revelatory connected soundscape in which Beethoven’s introspection feels more unsettling than usual. —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2019, Chamber Choice
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Chamber
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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Special offer. Schnittke & Kancheli: Light Over Darkness
Erato Alakiozidou (piano)
Lutoslawski Quartet
[Alakiozidou] captures perfectly [the Quintet’s] feeling of vulnerability with her beautifully veiled control of timbre and intelligent manipulation of silence…[in the Piano Quartet after Mahler]... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2018, Editor's Choice
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Cantante e tranquillo
András Keller, Zsófia Környei (violin), Zoltán Gál (viola), Judit Szabó (cello), János Pilz (violin - 3, 5, 6, 7, 8), Ottó Kertész (cello - 3, 7), Alexei Lubimov (piano - track 5)
Keller Quartett
it's all expertly played, even if the Bach is more Romantic in its use of vibrato than might be expected nowadays. —
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Shostakovich's last three Quartet can seem bleak and uncomprising, yet the Pacifica Quartet manages to extract a much wider range of colours from this music than do many other interpreters.... —
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A trio of characterful and accomplished 20th-century string quartets make a satisfyingly substantial programme of a kind now rare on the contemporary recording scene...the Signum Quartet respond... —
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That any group could play this music better than the Montreal-based Quatuor Molinari is inconceivable. They take a line, have an angle. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, Editor's Choice
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The Molinaris avoid the Kronos's tendency to overdramatise the material, and their account of the Fourth's persistently fragmenting structure also lets the material do the work. Schnittke embeds... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2012, Editor's Choice
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Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2010
Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Sergei Edelmann (piano), Lily Maisky (piano), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Daniel Rivera (piano), Alissa Margulis (violin), Lucia Hall (violin), Mark Dobrinskji (cello), Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg (viola),...
The sustained quality of music-making on display here ensures that the collective result is something much more than a high-powered musical love-in...her approach [to the Chopin] is as fresh... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, Editor's Choice
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