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a typically stimulating and warmly engineered collection of works. They open with a probing account of Beethoven's last String Quartet...the Scherzo and Finale are projected with great exuberance...The... —
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Special offer. Keith Jarrett: Bridge of Light
Michelle Makarski (violin), Marcia Butler (oboe), Patricia McCarty (viola). Keith Jarrett (piano)
Fairfield Orchestra, Thomas Crawford
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Godár: Mater
Iva Bittová (voice) & Miloš Valent (violin, viola)
Solamente Naturali & Bratislava Conservatory Choir, Marek Štryncl
To say that Vladímir Godár is a typical ECM discovery is certainly not to diminish either him or ECM. This Slovak composer uses a vocabulary in the works recorded here that will inevitably recall... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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Várjon moves swiftly between numbers, joining the puzzle-pieces without ever giving us the complete picture…but there’s no doubt that [his] connecting intelligence makes each set as a whole... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Recording of the Month
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The chain of musical events always seems to follow some sort of purpose, be it for contrast or for continuity, the catchy opening solo, which ends on pizzicato harmonics, stopping short before... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2006, Editor's Choice
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If we think we hear Bach at one moment, then Mahler at the next, and then Widmann himself, then we’d be right: it’s a bit like being presented with the entire range of German art music in one... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Composer of the Year
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Juliane Banse brings to all of them her intense voice, focused and lovely...and makes them as memorable as anyone I've ever heard...whatever the merits of this neglected music turn out in the... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Vocal Finalist
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