Winter & Winter
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Abrahamsen: Let me tell you
RecommendedBarbara Hannigan (soprano)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Andris Nelsons
Abrahamsen expresses both the fragility and force of Griffiths's imagined Ophelia through glinting, gauze-like textures and moments of clattering tumult…Barbara Hannigan's agile, luminous voice... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2016, Winner - Musique Contemporaine
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Contemporary
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Hannigan and De Leeuw perfectly capture the elusive, emotionally detached nature of Socrate —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2016, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2016, Editor's Choice
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In different ways, each quartet is at once uncanny yet familiar, restrained yet deeply emotionally engaged. The Ardittis play these with brilliant lucidity, tone colours ranging from grainy... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017
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The virtuosic intensity of Finnissy’s writing is on display throughout, and each work demands utter conviction from its performers as well as rock-solid technique. Weeks’s EXAUDI have complete... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Sciarrino - Storie di altre storie
Sonia Turchetta (voice], Teodoro Anzellotti (accordion)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Kazushi Ono, Lucas Vis
Il gionale della necropoli (2000) for accordion and orchestra is fully matured Sciarrino… The WDR SO play this testing music precisely and tell its story well… —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Recommendation
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Exaudi’s one-to-a-part approach stands comparison with the finest continental specialists in this repertory…The unanimity of purpose and the sense of engagement with Gesualdo’s rigorous caprice... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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Wiener Klassik: The Unusual Instrumentation
Mozart and Beethoven: Quintets for Piano and Winds
Die Freitags Akademie
These performances by the Swiss period-instrument ensemble Die Freitagsakademie are so full of character and incident that one can almost overlook the disc’s short playing time…[this recording]... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Musique de Chambre
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Exaudi really are one of the best-situated ensembles to sing this repertoire. They're known for combining madrigalian mood swings with eye-wateringly accurate tuning. —
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2025
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My Choice
Aarón Zapico, Daniel Zapico (theorbo), Pablo Zapico (baroque guitar), David Mayoral (percussion), Aitor Hevia (violin), Eugenia Boix (soprano), Carlos Mena (countertenor), Ruth Verona (cello), Forma Antiqva, Kettwiger Bach Ensemble
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