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Special offer. Guardian Angel: Rachel Podger
RecommendedMusic by Bach, Matteis, Tartini, Pisendel, Biber
Rachel Podger (violin)
Characteristically unforced and natural, the playing manages to sound endlessly considered yet spontaneous. There's a sureness to the placing of every note, whether poised or bristling with... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Instrumental Award Winner
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Special offer. Franck, Boulanger, Debussy & Vermeulen: Works for Cello and Piano
Lidy Blijdorp (cello), Tobias Borsboom (piano)
By turns dramatic and ethereal, Blijdorp insists you listen...The cello arrangement of Franck's Violin Sonata is tender, passionate and reflective. Adorned with consummate virtuosity, this performance... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2026, Chamber Choice
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Special offer. The Complete Sonatas for Violin and Obbligato Harpsichord
RecommendedRachel Podger (violin), Jonathan Manson (viola da gamba) and Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
A recording of Bach's violin sonatas that really hits the spot. Rachel Podger has already attracted much praise for her recordings of the solo violin music, but is heard here to even better... —
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Building a Library, October 2002, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2001, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Telemann: Ino Cantata and Double Concertos
Rachel Podger (violin), Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Hannah Parry, Florilegium, Ashley Solomon
Concise dances of Tritons are played gracefully and Watts's valorous characterisation is shared emphatically by Florilegium's full-tilt verve in an ecstatic tour de force in praise of Neptune. —
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Fischer contrasts gracious, chamber-textured dances with brilliant fanfares and toppling masses to absolute perfection. Throughout there’s a transparency to the recorded sound, even in the heftiest... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2019, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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More than half a century separates the earliest and the latest of the works here. The C major Trio Sonata was one of Bach's earliest compositions, written at the age of 17 more or less under... —
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Building a Library, September 2005, Highly Recommended
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Schwartz’s warm, silky playing matches Fedorova’s rounded piano touch. The top of the bass range lacks the penetrating quality of its smaller relatives, but Schwartz compensates with gravitas... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Through a diversity of genres – aria, concerto, fugue, overture and trio sonata – Bach’s music is imbued with timbral and textural elegance and profundity. Kelly ’s varied instrumental juxtapositions... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2023
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Special offer. Rimsky & Co Originals
Russian Music for Military Band
Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy & Soloists of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Arjan Tien
The Dutch brass are on dazzling form throughout, with some superb cameo appearances from the principals of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Rimsky Korsakov’s concertos for trombone, clarinet... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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