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…one of the most enjoyable discs I've listened to in a long time… Litton, for my money, gets it right every time. He… makes clear distinctions between fast and slow: in the Italian Symphony,... —
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Building a Library, June 2019, Also Recommended
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Fröst Plays Weber
Clarinet Concertos
Martin Fröst (clarinet)
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
The Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst plays with admirable virtuosity and smoothness of tone, and it’s hard to imagine the music better performed. —
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Lawrence Renes and the Royal Swedish Orchestra revel in the music’s extravagance, delivering strongly committed and full-blooded performances supported by a crystal clear recording that allows... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Orchestral Choice
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Plowright’s Brahms could easily be described as rugged: thunderclouds often loom and there are few moments of brighter outlook along the way…dark Brahms, then, but Plowright’s powerful, uncompromising... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2017, Editor's Choice
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Brahms: Violin Concerto & Violin Sonata No. 1
Vadim Gluzman (violin), Angela Yoffe (piano)
Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, James Gaffigan
Gluzman [plays with] heartfelt eloquence and unbridled passion [in the Violin Concerto]…Gaffigan’s unfailingly attentive Lucerne players sound almost chamber-like in their textural detailing…in... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, Editor's Choice
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The Rauwolf highlights the variegated colours of the music (far more than a modern lute could), and its lower courses have a plangent resonance…Given pride of place at the end of this parade... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2018, Editor's Choice
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Maxim Rysanov plays Schubert, Tchaikovsky & Bruch
RecommendedMaxim Rysanov (viola)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Muhai Tang
Rysanov makes the best possible case for hearing this version [of the Arpeggione], delivering a wonderfully poetic account of the solo part with subtle and sensitive accompaniment from the Swedish... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th August 2011
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Vänskä’s tempos are relatively laid back; as so often, he seems to aim more for long-term continuity than for the sensational detail – though he is quite capable of clinching a dramatic moment…By... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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If IKEA were to make a cello, this would be it…Sow how does it sound? In Steven Isserlis’s hands, remarkably fine – though he only uses it for a handful of evocative miniatures…On Isserlis’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, Chamber Choice
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Neschling admirably sustains the fever pitch throughout – nothing becomes overblown or unduly hysterical – and the playing is first-rate in its dark intensity and force. The filler is the Belfagor... —
