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It's the combination of poignancy and ardour that sets his playing apart...a valuable addition to this great artist's discography. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2026, Archive Issue of the Month
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Lucas’s three dozen singers are on impressive form, combining tonal beauty with sheer stamina...This splendid new release will take some supplanting. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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It’s all wonderfully lucid playing, which hasn’t dated in the slightest. —
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[Golka] writes that he is 'yet to record a single note' of Chopin. This collection demonstrates he is more than ready to face that fear. —
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His account of Chopin’s F minor Fantaisie reflects his ability to generate small surprises by stressing a phrase or presenting a bar in an unexpected colour. His treatment of Chopin’s Nocturne... —
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Gundula Janowitz - The Last Recital (In Memoriam Maria Callas)
Recorded Live at the Herodes Atticus Odeon, Athens, Greece, 16 September, 1999
Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)
[Janowitz] is in remarkably fresh voice throughout. There’s a certain loss of bloom, inevitably, and an occasional brittleness of intonation, but the unique sound is unmistakable, the delivery... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Re-issue of the Month
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The Stradgrass Sessions
Tessa Lark, Sierra Hull, Edgar Meyer (double bass), Michael Cleveland, Jon Batiste (piano & bandleader)
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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The 1956 Nixa-Westminster stereo recordings Volume 1
Sir Adrian Boult (narration)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Walton Symphony...comes up more brightly than previously: it's an intensely rhythmic performance...the slow movement builds surely and passionately, and the finale comes as the culmination... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Re-issue of the Month
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Having commissioned the piece, Sandra Porter and Graeme McNaught have lived with Clara for a quarter of a century. It shows in their intuitively ‘settled’ rapprochement, abetted by Porter’s... —
