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András Schiff's Beethoven Sonata cycle… continues to be stimulating and provocative, always forcing one to hear such familiar music in a new light. As he approaches the final sonatas of the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2007, Instrumental Choice
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Trio Mediaeval defend the corner for beautiful simplicity in this album —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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A Worcester Ladymass
Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth & Torunn Østrem Ossum (voice)
Trio Mediaeval
The whole programme flows together beautifully and the Trio's diction and tone perfectly combines celestial purity and perfection with human warmth and vulnerability. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Symmetry, the cyclic evolution of a musical germ and the idea of birth in the midst of death: all are fundamental to this disc. Webern's motivically determined orchestration of the Ricercar... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2003, Editor's Choice
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Zimmermann - Canto di Speranza
Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Thomas Demenga (cello), Andreas Schmidt (bass), Gerd Böckmann, Robert Hunger-Bühler (speakers)
WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Heinz Holliger
The synthesis of Bartók, Schoenberg and Stravinsky in the sparky Violin Concerto of 1950, played with expressive intelligence by Thomas Zehetmair, seems light years away from the deep pessimism... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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Konstantia Gourzi: Anajikon
Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), William Youn (piano), Minguet Quartett (string quartet), Ulrich Isfort (violin), Annette Reisinger (violin), Aroa Sorin (viola), Matthias Diener (cello), Lucerne Academy Orchestra, Konstantia Gourzi
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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The first movement of the big C major Sonata is conceived very much on orchestral lines with a dramatic variety of colouring and characterisation, as well as an unexpected use of the sustaining... —
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Building a Library, December 2010, First Choice
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This is a landmark recording and a courageous venture. It's probably the first devoted to Machaut's motets, containing no fewer than 18 of the 23 that survive. It's certainly the first to present... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2004, Editor's Choice
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Secret History - Music by Josquin and Victoria
John Potter (vocals), Anna Maria Friman (vocals), Ariel Abramovich (vihuela), Jacob Heringman (vihuela), Lee Santana (vihuela), Hille Perl (viola da gamba)
[Potter’s] approach is varied…In the Gloria of the Mass and elsewhere [he[] artfully switches between parts as he goes along so as to produce an appealing continuous vocal line. The instrumentalists... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2017
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