Orchid Classics
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Special offer. Simpson: Geysir and Mozart: Gran Partita
RecommendedMark Simpson, Fraser Langton (clarinet), Nicholas Daniel, Emma Fielding (oboe), Amy Harman, Dom Tyler (bassoon), Oliver Pashley, Ausias Garrigos Morant (basset horns), Ben Goldscheider, Angela Barnes, James Pillai, Fabian van de Geest (horn), David Stark (double bass)
In a teeming catalogue, this new Gran Partita more than holds its own. But the clinching factor for many will be Mark Simpson’s companion piece: a tour de force of wind colour and carefully... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th December 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Special offer. Beethoven/5 Vol. 5
Jonathan Biss (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Malin Broman
[Shaw] has an assured control of expectation, and even when the music dissolves into something surprising, it seems, in retrospect, as if we have been expecting it all along. Overall, a memorable... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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The duo's opulent, quasi-orchestral conception of the B flat Theme and Variations markedly differs from the crisper fortepiano-like transparency and faster tempos in the Decca recording by Roberto... —
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Special offer. Beethoven 5, Vol. 4
Jonathan Biss (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Malin Broman
This is a fresh, original interpretation, built from the ground up with humility, love and integrity, borne of a richly cultivated musical imagination and a technique so complete that its exercise... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2025, Editor's Choice
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Throughout, Liu’s fingerwork is unfailing...and her balances are breathtaking, especially in passages featuring superimposed rhythms. Overall, a major appearance by a pianist who has remained... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Editor's Choice
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The Schubert requires different interpretative skills [from the Weinberg], such as grace and elegance as well as a subtlety and variety of tonal colouring in balancing the three instruments... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Chamber Choice
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Special offer. Mozart & Jacob: Quintets For Clarinet & Strings
Richard Hosford (clarinet), The Gaudier Ensemble
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Special offer. Beethoven/5, Vol. 1
Jonathan Biss (piano), David Afkham, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Biss’ assured command of the demanding keyboard-writing and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s bracing proficiency are well captured… I find much of Biss’ pearly, intimately scaled phrasing... —
