Harmonia Mundi
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Nowadays, Fretwork takes a brisker view of the music though not perhaps a crisper one where matters of articulation are concerned. The playing in its new recording, with partly different personnel... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2009, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Che puro ciel
The Rise of Classical Opera
Bejun Mehta (counter-tenor)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
Jacobs and Bejun Mehta unleash the primal energies buried in magnificent yet largely forgotten operas...Jacobs's abrupt tempo twists, the instrumentalists' boldness and the chorus's power make... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Recital
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Some listeners may regard it as a chance to confront their prejudices against the fortepiano. Those listeners may relax: the instrument which this South African player has chosen is an unusually... —
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Record Review, 23rd February 2019, Disc of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Solo Music
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Löffler is one of the most accomplished baroque oboists around and her performances never disappoints my ears. Her easy virtuosity in outer movements and expressive delicacy in the centrally-placed... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Schütz: Italian Madrigals
Les Arts Florissants (early music ensemble), Paul Agnew (tenor), Miriam Allan (soprano), Hannah Morrison, Mathilde Ortscheidt, Sean Clayton, Jonathan Sells
Les Arts Florissants’ elasticity of expression brings out a particularly lucid evocation of rolling waves and ‘sweet harmony’ in the concluding eight-voice ‘Vasto mar, nel cui seno fan soave... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Early Music
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C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos
RecommendedJean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi
Queyras relishes this craggy landscape, his phrasing beautifully articulated, his sound mellow. The Hamburg-based Resonanz, who offer a performance both scintillating and elegant of a brief... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Concerto
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
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Rachmaninov & Myaskovsky: Sonatas for Cello and Piano
RecommendedBruno Philippe (cello) & Jérôme Ducros (piano)
'It’s difficult to understand why Nikolai Myaskovsky’s First Cello Sonata remains so neglected…Philippe inflects the music with great fervour, strongly supported by Jérôme Ducros’s impressive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Antonín Kraft - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cello Concertos
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi
The partnership proves to be exceptional, Minasi eliciting both honed and dynamically varied timbre from the ensemble...Queyras is equally compelling, adopting a beautifully sculpted melodic... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2024, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Concertos
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Junghänel's initiative is all the more welcome for presenting a superbly polished performance while maintaining an equilibrium between the energy and colour of Schütz's Italian models and the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2006, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, December 2021, Recommended Recording
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I enjoyed every moment of these two superbly recorded discs...These are model accounts, in which Lewis, clearly a modest man, is intent on keeping himself out of the picture...I would like to... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st October 2011
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2012, Disc of the Month
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