Onyx
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The Ehnes Quartet favour rhythmic buoyancy, athletic grace and crisp, clear lines for Schubert’s Death and the Maiden Quartet. Speeds are lithe, but not especially fast, and while it may be... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Mythes is all heightened sensuality and warmth, its heady atmosphere evoked through playing of extraordinary colour, detail and dexterity. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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With some discs, you can just tell that everything’s going to go like a dream… The freshness and spontaneity of these interpretations is unfaltering, as is the instantaneous rapport and subtle,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Chamber
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[No. 10] seems especially apt to the contained luminosity of James Ehnes’s violin playing, the pristine pianism of Andrew Armstrong and their remarkable rapport, playing as if one…Recorded in... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Roberto Sierra: Orchestral Works
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Domingo Hindoyan
Vibrant and warmly expansive, while not divorced from their musical heritage, each seems to surge perpetually forwards in sheer delight at the possibilities of rhythm and colour, embracing a... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Stimme der Sehnsucht
Lieder by Pfitzner, Strauss & Mahler
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo soprano) & Joseph Breinl (piano)
Stotijn's latest well-earned recital disc takes the imaginative high ground right at the start...In the booklet-notes, Stotijn eloquently explains why they travelled to Schiermonnikoog (or 'Grey... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Editor's Choice
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Karabits, supported by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's outstandingly responsive playing, gives an utterly compelling account of the Third...Karabits's performance of No. 7, with both its... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Make no mistake, this is artistry of the highest order. In their hands, Strauss's melodic fluency somehow manages to combine rich luxuriance with deftness of gesture. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Chamber Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2013, Editor's Choice
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Stravinsky: The Firebird & Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d'Or
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Petrenko’s preference for slow tempos over flexible drama might make for fidgety audiences in the concert hall…It just about works on CD, and then all hell’s let loose in perfectly-balanced... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th December 2018
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Fanny Hensel & Felix Mendelssohn: Arias, Lieder, Overtures
RecommendedChen Reiss (soprano), Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich, Daniel Großmann, Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
Reiss has a bright, warm and open tone which enhances both composers with sincerity and spontaneity...The orchestrations by Tal-Haim Samnon are reasonably satisfying, though do occasionally... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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