Orchid Classics
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Special offer. Porgy & Bess Revisited
Nicolas Dautricourt (violin), Pascal Schumacher (vibraphone), Knut Erik Sundquist (double bass)
Gershwin’s opera is not so much as Revisited as reimagined and refracted on this rather weird and wonderful sequence of improvisations and composed responses to some of its best-known themes,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2019
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What in other recordings is somewhat predictable here becomes an exciting journey. Where we were once content simply to marvel at the pyrotechnics, now, because of Gringolts's acute sense of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Through the Lens of Time
Francisco Fullana (violin), David Fung (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Carlos Izcaray
By turns terse and explosive, Fullana’s compelling performance counters any criticisms that his playing sometimes lacks weight and muscularity. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Fullana includes the E major Partita, employing gut strings, Baroque bow and authentic ornamentation. In so doing, he finds a compelling middle-way between Romantic and period-instrument rhetoric,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, Instrumental Choice
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Finally, Imprimatur by Agócs, the strongest work on the album, if also the most conventional in sonority and harmony, with an arresting chordal opening, immediately set against a more dissonant... —
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Somehow, Booth pivots effortlessly from one character and style to another while inhabiting each one with its own presence and conviction. Coleman's razor-sharp responses on piano (in addition... —
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