Harmonia Mundi
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Perianes' playing discovers Scarlatti's expressive diversity with intimacy and communicative warmth. —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Telemann: Violin Concertos. Overture. Suite. Fantasie
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (early music ensemble), Ute Hartwich, Edi Kotlyar, Clemens-Maria Nuszbaumer, Katharina Litschig, Bernhard Forck
Faust's playing, as ever is alluring and she is affectionately complemented by the Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin directed by violinist Bernhard Forck. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-10
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin) & Alexander Melnikov (piano)
…the most stimulating and fascinating accounts of the Beethoven violin sonatas I have heard in many years. Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov bring out the full quirkiness of the earlier... —
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Building a Library, October 2010, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Chamber
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Brahms: Violin Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin) and Alexander Melnikov (piano)
[a] beautifully balanced performance, and the warmth and intimacy of the recording is an excellent match. —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2015, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Chamber
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This superb recording further confirms, if it were necessary, that performing such music with contemporary instruments, but strings and no vibrato anywhere is far more than an exercise in scholarship.... —
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Record Review, 2nd November 2019, Disc of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Orchestral
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard Vol. 4
Alla Veneziana
Benjamin Alard (harpsichord, organ)
With more than three hours of music, this three-disc set is not be consumed at one or even two sittings: it’s like a vast ornamental garden with many side-avenues which the listener is encouraged... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
RecommendedSophie Karthäuser (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor, Johannes Weisser (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Choir members are the virtuosos here. Their flexibility enables them to enrich or bleach vocal colour, and flood or dry up volume levels, to the subtlest degree. Jacobs plays the choir like... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd November 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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New. Haydn: Harmoniemesse
Mélissa Petit (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo-soprano), Bastien Rimondi (tenor), Andreas Wolf (bass-baritone), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
What impresses in this recording is the restrained playfulness with which Haydn - and Christie - utilise these forces. The sprightly joy of the Gloria is especially infectious, set against the... —
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 8: Köthen, 1717-1723 - For Maria Barbara
Benjamin Alard (early keyboard instruments)
It’s the sort of music-making that, its intellectual grasp notwithstanding, clearly emanates from the heart. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Instrumental
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New. Lutosławski: Concertos For Cello / For Orchestra, Bloch: Schelomo
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Luxembourg Philharmonic, Gustavo Gimeno
Already at the first hearing I was very intrigued by Jean-Guihen Queyras's new interpretation, as I could hear no traces of political history or power struggles in his playing. In fact, he makes... —
