Wigmore Hall Live
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…the players capture beautifully the mix of grace and jokiness in the Mozart Minuet, and in the Mendelssohn they apply just enough rubato to give colour and meaning, without ever interrupting... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Newcomer of the Year
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Wolfgang Holzmair & Imogen Cooper: Songs by Schumann & Reimann
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, on 14 December 2010
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) & Imogen Cooper (piano)
Holzmair's way with Schumann has always been special: his light, soft-grained baritone senses out the half-tones, the shadows, the emotional fragility of the composer's Lieder...Cooper responds... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Roger Vignoles
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) & Roger Vignoles (piano)
The unique warmth of tone is sounded in the first notes even of the lighter Mahler songs. But there's also a spiritual grace in her approach. Key tracks such as Mahler's 'Ich bin de Welt abhanden... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Solo
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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The superbly modulated range of expression, the grasp of the work as a whole organism and the sense of lively musical partnership gives this performance [of Op. 96] a special authority —
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…a really superb recital by this accomplished Canadian bass-baritone and his celebrated accompanist, Julius Drake. In recent years Gerald Finley's voice has developed more character and cutting... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Vocal Finalist
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Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets Volume 4
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, on 1 November 2014
Elias String Quartet
This review could be very brief: buy these two discs! [The Elias Quartet] are simply astounding, in the freshness, intensity, assurance and seeming spontaneity of their playing…[Bitlloch] cultivates... —
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Record Review, 30th December 2017, Recording of the Week
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These musicians are different. Not radically different but enough to notice that their style of playing, though highly disciplined, isn't cuttingly concentrated. Then there is Haydn the musical... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson & Julius Drake
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) & Julius Drake (piano)
…Hunt Lieberson brings a rare translucency of tone to Brahms at his most impassioned and his most intimate. When it comes to Schumann's Mignon songs… we hear a pure, pearly line of longing,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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This is an extraordinarily subtle performance of Schubert's first great cycle. Wonderfully recorded, with an ideal balance between soloist and pianist, it leaves you wondering, at times, who... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, Editor's Choice
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The equilibrium he achieves between formality (polonaise) and extemporisation (fantasy) is exemplary. So are the breadth, refinement and deployment of his impeccably Chopinesque tonal palette.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Instrumental Choice
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