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Rennert and Middleton are an unassailable team...Consummate storytellers both, they inhabit the narrative and psychological aspects of each song with unerring insight, intimacy and an innate... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2026, Vocal Choice
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First, you can take his peerless technical ability for granted. Next, he is blessed with a remarkable personal sound: it has the quality of a dark, warm roar from deep within the instrument,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2025, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Piano
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Spruce, cleansounding, finely articulated with sparing use of vibrato – this is definitely modern Beethoven. It’s hard to imagine anything less like the plush, expressively orotund Amadeus Quartet... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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It’s that combination of crisp, earthy clarity and lively, virtuoso sparkle that marks these readings out – in drink terms, think tannin-rich reds against fine, biscuity champagne – along with... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Record Review, 17th June 2023, Record of the Week
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Johann Wilhelm Wilms: The Piano Concertos, Vol. 2
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano), Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
The Cologne-based period instrument ensemble responds to Michael Alexander Willens’s insightful direction with affectionate warmth and incisive attentiveness. Roland Brautigam, meanwhile, deploys... —
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Record Review, 17th December 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas Vol. 3
Sonatas 8-10
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Martin Helmchen (piano)
Frank Peter Zimmermann and Martin Helmchen are an outstanding team, whose latest release brings their three-disc survey to an uplifting conclusion...Finest of all is the reading of the elusive... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Chamber Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Chamber Music
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Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos
Haochen Zhang (piano), The Philadelphia Orchestra, Nathalie Stutzmann
Zhang offers some breathtakingly beautiful moments...The Philadelphia Orchestra, here conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann, is one of those rare musical juggernauts that has its musical juggernauts... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023, Editor's Choice
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Wee conjures the compelling illusion of being both Mozart’s soloist and his orchestra... it ’s not every pianist who can lift those notes off the page – and Wee does a wonderful job of honouring... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2022, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Piano
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The Polish period-instrument group Arte dei Suonatori are on top of all Bach's sleights of hand...as fine a survey of CPE Bach's symphonic art as you're likely to come across. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2026, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
RecommendedLive at Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Germany, 7/29/1951
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Elisabeth Höngen (alto), Hans Hopf (tenor), Otto Edelmann (bass), Festspielorchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wilhelm Furtwängler
Nothing else in the realms of recorded music is quite like it and I would urge you to share the experience...I’m not claiming that this performance will suit every mood or even every taste,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Historical
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Building a Library, December 2022, Historic Recording
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