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the 100-minute score creates a space in which recorded voices that Goebbels has sourced from wax cylinders, news reports and ethnographic sources can be given a political or historical context... —
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Composer of the Year
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Erkki-Sven Tüür: Symphony No. 7 & Piano Concerto
Laura Mikkola (piano)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Choir, Paavo Järvi
Dense, complex, mysterious, passionate, spellbinding, sometimes strage and always original, Tüür's Piano Concerto and choral Symphony receive stunning performances enhanced by superb sound quality. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Veracini - Sonatas
John Holloway (violin), Jaap ter Linden (cello) & Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)
Veracini was part of a European constellation of virtuoso violinist composers which included Vivaldi, Leclair, Locatelli and Pisendel during the first half of the 18th century. John Holloway... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2006, Editor's Choice
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How can one ensemble be so good at so many things?...There’s no trace of kitsch. They bring to this music the same virtues as their more canonical pursuits: unified and natural phrasing, and... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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The Liszt is immaculately controlled, each of the nine pieces vividly characterised. His use of pedal is surprising, and his sound is wonderfully clean and precise. His effects are fastidiously... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
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Each piece is beautifully crafted but collectively may be too much of a good thing, even in such a superb rendition. A disc for specialists, perhaps, but a special one. —
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Arvo Pärt: Symphony No. 4
Los Angeles Philharmonic & Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Esa-Pekka Salonen & Tõnu Kaljuste
Like much of Pärt's other works, it weaves the effect of musical suspension in time, helped by motivic and stylistic similarities across its three movements...The Estonian Philharmonic Choir... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Editor's Choice
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Trio Mediaeval & Arve Henriksen - Rímur
Trio Mediaeval: Anna Maria Friman (voice, hardangar fiddle), Linn Andrea Fuglseth (voice, shruti box), Berit Opheim (voice) & Arve Henriksen (trumpet)
The trio sing with their usual combination of precision, imagination and deep care with text and ornamentation. Arve Henriksen’s trumpet sounds like a flute, a seabird, a human voice, a distant... —
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as Poppen plays one of the greatest movements for violin ever composed, the Hilliards sing the chorale quotations, showing how they fit alongside the solo line. It must have been extremely difficult... —
