Orfeo
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New. Echoes of My Childhood
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Irina Zahharenkova (piano), Anderson Fiorelli
Childhood revisited with flair, playfulness and abiding affection. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2026, Editor's Choice
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Fritsch’s Mozart is a sheer delight. This is no bland essay of the usual suspects painted in anonymous colours but a vivid portrait gallery of characters that Fritsch has actually played on... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Recital
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Margaret Price (Fiordiligi), Brigitte Fassbaender (Dorabella), Peter Schreier (Ferrando), Wolfgang Brendel (Guglielmo), Reri Grist (Despina), Theo Adam (Don Alfonso)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Staatsoper, Wolfgang Sawallisch
The cast is stellar. Margaret Price's studio Cosi, made seven years earlier, finds her in wonderful form but greatly handicapped by Klemperer's marmoreal tempos. Here, however, she sounds interpretatively... —
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Brahms: Haydn-Variations, Symphony No. 3
Géza Anda (piano)
Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch
Wonderfully characteristic late Hans Knappertsbusch performances: broad, flexible, the fruits of a lifetime’s devotion to the Viennese classics. The Beethoven concerto with Géza Anda is especially... —
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Irmgard Seefried
Vienna 1943-1952
Irmgard Seefried (soprano) with Leopold Ludwig, Viktor Graef & Erik Werba (piano)
A lovely collection: if you had to choose a single disc to represent Seefried in song you could not do better than this...Her personal warmth permeates the voice, and in these recordings one... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Grace Bumbry (mezzo), Jess Thomas (tenor), George London (bass)
Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Karl Bohm
In the firm momentum, sleek moulding and Classically wind-heavy balancing of the inner movements may be detected the ghostly hand of Richard Strauss upon his friend’s shoulder. In the second... —
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Collectionneur
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Angela Hewitt joins the equally period-sensitive Daniel Müller-Schott in performances which lead the field for performances on cello and piano. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2007, Editor's Choice
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…possibly the most compelling recorded performance of Max Reger's only surviving piano concerto… The performance marries drama with poetry in an ideal proportions: Erdmann's timing is just... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2007, Editor's Choice
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