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Special offer. Leducq-Barôme conducts Shostakovich & Strauss
Baltic Chamber Orchestra, Emmanuel Leducq-Barôme
Played here with sensitivity and intent, these elegiac works have a haunting quality. The recorded sound is slightly foggy —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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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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Brocal is a musician of distinction whose imaginative, intelligent and cultivated piano-playing is at once seductive and authoritative. In fact, the perfection and maturity of his Ravel is little... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2018, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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The Dudoks deliver a rhythmically dynamic and wonderfully nuanced account of the Bacewicz. Their Shostakovich is also impressive, projecting tremendous power, ferocity and forward momentum in... —
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Lucy Humphris’s debut album is a fascinating showpiece of her not inconsiderable technical abilities...Good, clear sound and a fascinating listen overall. —
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Special offer. Bartók & Schumann: Works for Violin and Piano
Stephen Waarts (violin), Gabriele Carcano. (piano)
Stephen Waarts and Gabriele Carcano find musical affinities between the composers. Bartók’s style is not just earth and fire, but poise, lyricism and elegance as well. Perhaps his works receive... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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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. Arwel Hughes: Oratorio Dewi Sant
Susan Bullock (soprano), Rhodri Prys Jones (tenor), Paul Casey Jones (bass-baritone), BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales, Owain Arwel Hughes
Some bars indeed suggest watered-down Handel. Yet none of that stops the oratorio being craf tsmanlike and immediately expressive, and most of Owain Arwel Hughes’s forces attack it with vim...It... —
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Even if you think Tchaikovsky's string quartets are staple fare - in fact only the First is a regular visitor to concert halls - you'll find them transfigured by the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam…I... —
