Atma Classique
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There is a new and unmistakable joie de vivre, an almost improvisatory abandon and, frequently, a sense of sheer unbuttoned fun not normally associated with either Fialkowska of Chopin...every... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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That any group could play this music better than the Montreal-based Quatuor Molinari is inconceivable. They take a line, have an angle. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, Editor's Choice
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The Molinaris avoid the Kronos's tendency to overdramatise the material, and their account of the Fourth's persistently fragmenting structure also lets the material do the work. Schnittke embeds... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2012, Editor's Choice
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Bach: Psaume 51 & Cantate 82
Karina Gauvin (soprano), Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor)
Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie
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Fialkowska's canny combination of rhetorical splendour and individual exuberance is beguiling - this is not delicate, decorative Mozart...Fialkowska is at her invigorating best in the highly... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, Chamber Choice
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Chopin: Piano Concertos
RecommendedJanina Fialkowska (piano)
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey
She exaggerates nothing. Her playing is notable for its balance, its sense of proportion and naturalness...The approach is robustly classical, and effortlessly demonstrates that size in music... —
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Building a Library, September 2016, Also Recommended
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Monteverdi Vespers
RecommendedSuzie LeBlanc, Barbara Borden (soprano), Alexander Schneider (countertenor), Rodrigo del Pozo (high tenor), Julian Podger, John Potter (tenor), Bertrand Chuberre, Jelle Draijer, Stephan MacLeod (bass-baritone), Leo van Doeselaar (organ)
Tragicomedia, Concerto Palatino, Stephen Stubbs
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Building a Library, April 2007, Mid-Price Choice
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Britten: Les Illuminations
RecommendedKarina Gauvin (soprano)
Les Violons du Roy, Jean-Marie Zeitouni
Gauvin is a seductive interpreter of [Les Illuminations]. Her glinting sound gives a diamantine shimmer to the heroic passages, yet she never sacrifices the essential warmth and sensuousness... —
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Building a Library, June 2015, First Choice
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Coming soon. Project 8
André Moisan (double bass), Olivier Thouin (violin), Lizann Gervais (violin), Charles Pilon (viola), Sylvain Murray (cello), John Roney (piano), Corey Rae (drums), Andrew Goodlett (double bass)
