Orchid Classics
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Special offer. Hans Christian Aavik Plays Max Bruch & Erkki-Sven Tüür
Hans Christian Aavik (violin), Odense Symphony Orchestra, Gemma New
Aavik’s playing is technically superb, making light of this work's often considerable technical demands. Octaves and double-stopped passagework, for example, are razor-honed, and intonation... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2025, Concerto Choice
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Special offer. The Music of Malcolm Arnold
James Orford, Edward Picton-Turbervill (piano), Cameron Richardson-Eames, Jack Liebeck (violin), Alexander Sitkovetsky, London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron
There’s an appealing directness to Arnold’s music, aided in the choral selections here by crystal-clear diction and hearty performances. The non-choral items are a knockout, too, most notably... —
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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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Pellucid, fluent accounts of all five works from the classy Canadian pianist...Gaspard is a particular delight (Ondine shimmers and ripples, Le gibet is properly uncanny, and the notorious technical... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2017
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Special offer. Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music
Claire Booth (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano)
Adopting this approach [curation around Schoenberg's paintings] enables Booth and Glynn to maximise the variety of musical expression explored in each of the themes with performances that respond... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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The passages of melancholy introspection bathe in a gentle air, and the climaxes...never disappoint, though Giltburg's is not an obvious bravura...There's no denying the fullness and resonant... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Editor's Choice
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All too often, recording projects proclaim their 'diverse' programming but are tokenistic in practice. It is refreshing to encounter a disc put together with integrity and care, and performed... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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