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Here’s an archetypal recital programme which every emerging violin virtuoso would dream of recording, though few recent contenders have done so with such unerring assurance and mastery as Johan... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2024, Chamber Choice
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Vagn Holmboe - Concertos
Noriko Ogawa (piano), Martin Fröst (clarinet), Gordon Hunt (oboe)
Danish National Opera Choir, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes
A word about nomenclature. Holmboe composed 13 chamber concertos between 1939 and 1956 as a series with small-orchestral accompaniment, similar but not so homogeneous a set as Hindemith's Kammermusiken.... —
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J.S. Bach: Concertos for Harpsichord & Strings, Vol. 2
Masato Suzuki (harpsichord), Bach Collegium Japan
Masato Suzuki proves an ideal keyboard soloist, balancing moments of zestful virtuosity with some elegant inequality in the passagework. Willem Kroesbergen’s copy of a contemporary Couchet harpsichord... —
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Kalevi Aho: Trombone Concerto & Trumpet Concerto
Jörgen van Rijen (trombone), Alain de Rudder (trumpet)
Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Written in near proximity, the four movements of each piece follow a similar formal though subtly carried expressive trajectory…Performances, by soloist who gave the premieres, could not be... —
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Vasks: Distant Light
and Piano Quartet & Summer Dances
Vadim Gluzman (violin), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
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Fredrik Ullén’s accomplishment in recording these works cannot be overestimated. It is a marathon achievement, and he conveys the Studies on this installment with absolute aplomb and with a... —
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Debussy: Orchestrated
Petite Suite; La Boîte à Joujoux; Children’s Corner
Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Pascal Rophé
Both La boîte à joujoux and the similarly enchanting Children’s Corner are performed with deft panache by this quality orchestra, whose subtly shaded tone and style sound much more like those... —
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This is a magnificent performance of a notoriously controversial work…Dausgaard is shaping up, on the strength of this and his previous Bruckner recording of the Fifth, as a much-needed fresh... —
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Mozart & Birchall: Clarinet Concertos
Michael Collins (basset clarinet), Philharmonia Orchestra, Wigmore Soloists, Robin O'Neill
In the Quintet, Collins is joined by newly formed ensemble Wigmore Soloists, the crème de la crème of chamber players who in this beautifully produced interpretation take the much-loved piece... —
