Harmonia Mundi
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In this recording the Schubert works emerge as absolutely magical. The Divertissement elicits a sumptuous softness, while the Fantasie creates the impression of vast and intensely dramatic landscapes. —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2024, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Piano
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis, Op. 123
Polina Pasztircsák (soprano), Sophie Harmsen (mezzo), Steve Davislim (tenor), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Jacobs penetrates to the heart of the music with his customary insight and intelligence, though not without adding an enigma or two of his own…Jacobs is superb not only at communicating the... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2021
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Record Review, 13th February 2021, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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In advance, I wondered whether there was anything new to be said about these two incessantly recorded works. Happily the answer is 'yes'. Nor is it due to anything imposed - the novelty comes... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th May 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2018, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Marin Marais: Folies d'Espagne, La Rêveuse & Other Works
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexandre Tharaud are on their customary vir tuosic form, and their take on this music is full of vitality but, as Dr Charles Burney once remarked upon the music of CPE... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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The instruments gathered by Les Siècles bring a delicious transparency, so that there is both greater distinctiveness in the instrumental colours and a more satisfying blend than tends to be... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th April 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Nouveauté
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…an absolute triumph. Miraculously honed intonation and perfect ensemble is matched throughout by an innate understanding of Haydn's mercurial and immensely varied musical language. Recorded... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Chamber Award Winner
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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Song, piano piece, theatre interlude and duo enter one grammar: Hurel's rounded line speaks; Moretti's harp turns pedal, guitar, balafon and orchestral shimmer into touch. —
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These are exceptionally exciting interpretations for the most part. —
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Schubert: String Quintet - Arpeggione Sonata - Lieder
Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel, Quatuor Parisii (chamber ensemble)
her affection for and understanding of [the Arpeggione] are clear from her performance, enhanced by an obvious rapport with pianist Pascal Amoyel...A potentially fine set of performances that... —
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The orchestral original of La mer would seem to defy translation to solo piano. Yet Piboule's deft evocation of this Impressionist masterpiece, her grasp of its musical substance and rendering... —
