Avie
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His avowed aim in playing Mozart is to avoid the elegance and gracefulness of traditional performance-practice, and to bring out instead the music's nervous energy. —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, February 2025, Recommended Recording (Piano Sonata No. 15)
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Songs of Orpheus
RecommendedMonteverdi, Caccini, Merula, Brunelli, Castello, Cima, Landi
Karim Sulayman (tenor)
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Sulayman’s approach tends more towards the lyrical than the rhetorical – his lucid, velvety tenor and pop-star charisma best suited to melodious arias rather than the text-driven stile recitativo…Under... —
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Schubert: Trout Quintet, Waltzes, Lndler
Yann Dubost, Thymos Quartet, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (piano), Christoph Eschenbach
In this delightful recording, the limelight is shared between Christoph Eschenbach’s crystalline piano playing and the creamy string sound, underpinned by the rumbling, bouncing bass. The tempo... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2020, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Thirty years ago, 'chamber orchestra' Beethoven was considered to be a mildly interesting eccentricity; nowadays it is practically de rigueur. The Chamber Orchestra of Europe blazed the trail.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2008, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Beethoven the Conquering Hero - Complete Works For Cello & Piano
Jennifer Kloetzel (cello), Robert Koenig (piano)
If only more cellists played like this – and at this level of ceaseless musicianship...And there is a true musical team at work here. Robert Koenig’s choice of a mellow-voiced Blüthner piano... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Haydn: Cello Concertos, Vivaldi Concerto for Violin and Cello
Christoph Croisé (cello), Sherniyaz Mussakhan (violin)
Eurasian Soloists Chamber Orchestra
This conductor-less release from Avie manages to capture something too often lost in recordings of the early cello concerto repertoire: fun…Croisé plays with the benevolence of an 18th-century... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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Hadelich's refinement and excitement carry one through these very diverse works. —
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Cooper is alert to every dimension, transcending technique in a synthesis of human emotion, psychological acumen and dramaturgical insight. Her sense of balance is unerring, be it in solo work... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Orchestral Choice
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The players strongly empathise with the frequent moments of darkness and despair in Shostakovich's music...The performance of the Beethoven has many virtues, not least in its purposeful drive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, Editor's Choice
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Imogen Cooper's strongly projected, stylistically sensitive performance stands up even alongside such distinguished modern versions as Uchida, Brendel and Schiff. With crystalline articulation... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2006, Editor's Choice
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