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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5
RecommendedBudapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
Of the two performances, the Fifth Symphony is particularly successful, Its first movement, taken at a real lick, has a tremendous atmosphere of excitement and coiled tension…There’s much to... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Special offer. Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No. 2
RecommendedPieter Wispelwey (cello)
Sinfonietta Cracovia, Jurjen Hempel
Whereas Müller-Schott and Kreizberg view the Concerto as a darkly contemplative monologue that is almost suffocating in its brooding introspection, Wispelwey manages to find more light and shade... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Award for Technical Excellence in Recording
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Special offer. Mozart - Complete Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin, Volumes 7 & 8
Gary Cooper (piano) & Rachel Podger (violin), with Alison McGillivray (cello)
Cooper and Podger perform the variations with typical verve… it’s impossible to ignore the individuality, vitality and commitment of their performances. —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2009, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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Special offer. Bach, J S: The Art of Fugue, BWV1080
RecommendedRachel Podger (violin)
Brecon Baroque
This is not an interpretation that wants to grab you by the lapels…but rather one which by its natural ebb and flow aims to draw you stealthily into the music and have you breathe with it, so... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Special offer. Shostakovich & Prokofiev: Violin Concertos No. 1
Ning Feng (violin), Bochum Symphony Orchestra, Tung-Chieh Chuang
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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' & Coriolan Overture
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
this is generally a fine and well-recorded performance, with a welcome degree of expressive flexibility in such moments as the opening movement’s gentle second subject. —
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Special offer. Yellow Butterfly - Latin American Favourites
Dana Zemtsov, Claudio Constantini, Anna Fedorova (piano), Nicholas Schwartz, Angelo Verploegen, André Groen
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The modern Steinway grand seems a bit of a blunt instrument to convey the full range of Bach's individuality, but Lazic's fastidiously articulated fingerwork and his feel for CPE's cultivated... —
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Special offer. Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri
Anne Grimm (soprano 1), Johannette Zomer (soprano 2), Peter de Groot (alto), Andrew Tortise (tenor) & Bas Ramselaar (bass)
The Netherlands Bach Society
They dally deliciously on any expressive dissonances and suspensions, while the players add warmth and colour with intelligent use of vibrato and ornamentation, becoming more overtly dramatic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2006, Editor's Choice
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Printed in Paris by Le Clerc without Telemann's permission in 1736 but composed in Hamburg in 1730, the first six of these quartets called 'Quadri' were such a success that the composer himself... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2004, Editor's Choice
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