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Special offer. Paganini and Rolla: Chamber Music For Strings and Bassoon
Andrea Bressan, Gabrielle Shek, Dana Zemtsov, Pau Codina, Giovanni Guzzo
It’s an intriguing selection, and here it’s been beautifully brought off…It perhaps sounds – unintentionally – like a back-handed compliment, but I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed a bassoon chamber... —
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Fischer… offers a sparkling performance of the popular overture to Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers, and his account of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is impressive, with the major-mode episodes... —
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Special offer. Schubert: Works for Cello and Piano
RecommendedPieter Wispelwey (cello) and Paolo Giacometti (piano)
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Building a Library, October 2012, First Choice
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Special offer. Mozart - Complete Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin, Volume 1
Rachel Podger (baroque violin) & Gary Cooper (fortepiano)
This is Volume 1 of a complete set, and the series certainly gets off to a cracking start. The recording gives the fortepiano (an Adlam copy of a 1795 Anton Walther instrument) a full, rich,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2005, Editor's Choice
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Using period instruments, the Amsterdam are particularly illuminating in the early Op. 20/4, pinpointing the bold rhythmic ambiguity of the Menuetto alla zingarese and the strongly driven energy... —
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D795
Jochen Kupfer (baritone) and Susanne Giesa (piano)
This reading of Schubert's cycle is confirmation, as if that were needed, of Jochen Kupfer's beautiful singing, and even more of his gifts as a Lieder interpreter. Kupfer's voice and style is... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2003, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Virtuosismo - Paganini & Vieuxtemps
Ning Feng (violin)
Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, Rossen Milanov
If you had never heard these works before you would gasp in amazement at such fearless, sure-fingered playing from the soloist…he executes all difficulties without apparently breaking sweat…And... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
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Fischer finds more mystery in the slow introduction to the first movement of the Fourth Symphony than many other conductors...And it gets better and better: there's a beautiful, singing quality... —
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So well matched are Rachel Podger and Jane Rogers that they sound musically inseparable. Remarkably fresh and spontaneous-sounding performances, meticulously voiced and balanced, that are models... —
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