Quartz
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Beethoven Nine Symphonies
National Symphony Orchestra, Rimma Sushanskaya, Jennifer Davis (soprano), Bethany Horak-Hallet (contralto), Sam Furness (tenor), Stephen Loges (baritone)
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There’s something wonderfully unshowy about Medvedev’s performance here, despite the glittering quality of such works as Tchaikovsky’s Grand Sonata in Gmajor. Other pianists might be tempted... —
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By far the best performance on the programme...is of Herzogenberg’s First Sonata (1886)...Maslennikov and Weyer reveal it to be richly inventive, finely wrought and emotionally engaging. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Tong’s playing reveals Schumann as a thrilling new love rather than a familiar old friend. —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2019, November 2019
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It takes remarkable powers of concentration for a performer to sustain nearly an hour of solo cello music without any support from an accompanying instrument. In this formidable sequence of... —
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Kobrin's beauty of tone is apparent throughout, seemingly incapable of an ugly forced sonority even amidst the densest of writing. There are passages of cantabile which I have rarely heard rendered... —
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The intrinsic qualities of the music featured here are self-evident. A wonderfully affectionate and strongly characterised performance of Korngold's Much Ado about Nothing suite sets the ball... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, June 2024
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The barnstorming theme is set out with pointed determination, only to immediately fall away in a shadow of itself. Kholodenko’s carefully contoured opener is followed by five variations that... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023, Editor's Choice
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