Chamber, Quintets, Schnittke (composer)
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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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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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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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Schnittke: Violin Sonata No. 2 & Piano Quintet
Lydia Kovalenko (violin), Yuri Serov (piano), Alexey Baev (violin), Alexey Popov (viola), Kirill Timofeev (cello)
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Special offer. Classical Dreams
Berlin Barock Solisten (early music ensemble), Dora Deliyska (piano), Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Gabriel Adorján (violin), Lena Neudauer (violin), Amihai Grosz (viola), David Adorján, Rahel Rilling, Isabel Charisius, Guy Ben-Ziony, Martin Menking, Martin Funda, Sara Rilling, Stefan Heinemeyer, Jacques...
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Anybody disinclined to take the accordion seriously as a classical instrument should listen to the opening track here...[the Nordheim and Berio] are advertisements for the accordion's expressive... —
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The Many Musics of Gidon Kremer
Gidon Kremer (violin), Kim Kashkashian, Martha Argerich, Tatjana Grindenko & Yuri Smirnov, Isabelle van Keulen, Tabea Zimmermann, David Geringas, Alois Posch, Eduard Brunner, Radovan Vlatkovic & Klaus Thunemann, Oleg Maisenberg, Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky & Martha Argerich, Andrei Pushkarev
Wiener...
Assuming you don't object to single movement excerpts, this is as fine a cross-section of Gidon Kremer's unique artistry as one could wish for. Exclusive bonuses by Desyatnikov and Piazzolla... —
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there are flashes of extraordinary playing...Indeed, there is much to recommend it - the perfect tuning, poise and control that glide through the multitude of styles that Schnittke uses to evoke... —
