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Configured as a string quartet with double bass and two guitars, the Barokksolistene enter into Guthrie’s reworking with predictably infectious gusto. —
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The opening to Schubert’s Nocturne in E f lat major is whisperingly exquisite, a remarkable synthesis between the strings, tender, beautifully shaped, before the more abrasively intense middle... —
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 'Death & the Maiden'
Kuss Quartett, Maurice Steger (recorder)
This is altogether an enterprising and stimulating album, however, and it is impeccably played throughout. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Mozart: Piano Concertos 10 & 24
Elizabeth Sombart, (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Mihaela Cesa-Goje, Nicolas Comi
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Special offer. Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Kakadu Variations & Vořišek: Grand Rondo Concertante
Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Petr Popelka, Lobkowicz Trio
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Special offer. Mozart: Piano Concertos: Nos. 20, 21, 23, 27
Elizabeth Sombart (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Vallet
Her Mozart is alternately convincingly lyrical and delightfully energized. One can only admire her solo statement of the second movement of K 488. The whole movement is sublime. The brisk tempo... —
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Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver make an exceptionally good duo. The sense of intimate responsiveness to each other runs through all four sonatas…Everything sounds as though it’s minutely calculated... —
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