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whether gut strings and period bows are generally your bag or not, you need to add this to your listening pile forthwith. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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a real winner on all counts - the individual players are hugely impressive when required to step into the spotlight, and the intensity of the collective sound in tutti passages is overwhelming... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 'Lobgesang'
Jone Martínez, Benjamin Bruns (tenor), Eri Sawae, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
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These are seriously demanding pieces, yet Hammond delivers them with a smooth and mellif luous touch, capturing the music’s twilit subtleties and silken textures as if it ’s second nature. While... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2022, Editor's Choice
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Israeli violinist Nurit Stark brings together works by four composers of the same pedagogical lineage. Her violin tone is pure, but never pale, admirably capturing the otherworldly eeriness... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Instrumental
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hugely impressive in that you simply can't tell Sudbin's playing apart from that of his 12-year-old daughter Bella...I’d have been happy for a complete sequence of original Tchaikovsky pianism,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Tchaikovsky & Babajanian: Piano Trios
RecommendedVadim Gluzman (violin), Johannes Moser (cello), Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
Tchaikovsky disliked the trio as a genre but choosing it for his memorial to Nikolay Rubinstein solved his need for a work of major heft yet intimate reflection. What I like about this beautifully... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Diapason d’Or, March 2020, Nouveauté
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The four canonical pieces need no puffs from me and, like everything else on the disc, are played superbly...Ogawa is both self-effacing when required, and unfailingly prompt and sympathetic... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Editor's Choice
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Oceano
Chamber Music by Sebastian Fagerlund
Minna Pensola (violin), Atte Kilpeläinen (viola), Tomas Djupsjöbacka (cello), Christoffer Sundqvist (clarinet), Paavali Jumppanen (piano), Hervé Joulain (horn), Meta4
The Finn’s natural outlet for his tautly robust, driving energy has been in opera and orchestral works. Yet his chamber music is no less compelling…By turns ferociously rhythmic, playful and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, Chamber Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Premiere
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They are performed with apposite aplomb and necessary bravura by Ilya Gringolts who also directs the Finnish Baroque Orchestra...While to my ears the music lacks the invention and poetic allure... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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