Avi Music
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Display[s] the many fine points to which listeners were alerted in Vol 2: natural, conversational performances in a clear, realistic sound picture, with keen attention paid to dynamic and expressive... —
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Special offer. Smetana, Ravel and Watkins: Piano Trios
Antje Weithaas (violin), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello), Huw Watkins (piano), Florian Donderer (violin), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Lars Vogt (piano), Sebastian Manz (clarinet), Florian Donderer (viola)
these performances from the 2011 [Spannungen] festival feature a mixing and matching of personnel, with inspiration generally running high in these three trios captured on three successive days....It... —
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Special offer. Schumann & Elgar - Piano Quintets
Lars Vogt (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), with Radoslav Szulc, Tatjana & Claudio Bohorquez
Lars Vogt is equally subtle and acutely penetrating in Schumann and Elgar… Teztlaff and his fellow strings have almost ideal tone and expressive touch in the first-movement second theme of... —
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Special offer. Schubert & Shostakovich: Viola & Piano
Andreas Willwohl (viola), Daniel Heide (piano)
The Schubert is granted its full measure of charm, and once adjusted to the viola’s lighter baritone, all you hear is beautiful music sensitively performed. —
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Anna Larsson (contralto)
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Ádám Fischer
Magisterial power in sombre and radiant marches, the subtlest rubato in the old-new minuet which follows, establish Ádám Fischer as one of the greatest living Mahler conductors…Engineering render... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Orchestral (19th-century music)
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Special offer. Prokofiev & Shostakovich: Violin Sonatas
Natalia Prishepenko (violin), Dina Ugorskaja (piano)
Given Ugorskaja’s tendency to rapt introspection at leisurely tempos I was initially taken aback by the duo’s focused take on these David Oistrakh-inspired works. The Prokofiev comes first in... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (soprano)
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Adam Fischer
As Fischer explains in his liner notes, he’s paid special attention to how Mahler has notated [glissandi] and the fingerings he’s marked – taking a little detour below the starting note before... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2018, Editor's Choice
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