Harmonia Mundi
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Beethoven: Violin Sonatas & Piano Trios
RecommendedDaniel Sepec (violin) & Andreas Staier (fortepiano), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Underpinned by the musicianship of Andreas Staier, these recordings are real classics. Sepec is using Beethoven's own violin. —
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Building a Library, December 2014, First Choice
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one of the top pianists of our time…[Melnikov’s interpretations] are in a class of their own…given perfect clarity of inner lines and a refusal to lose intellectual grip even on the most tornado-like... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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J. S. Bach: The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 11
Clavier-Übungen I & II
Benjamin Alard (harpsichord)
Unlike his previous accounts for Alpha in 2010, characterisation is now refocused with eloquent intimacy and with less reliance on acoustical resonance, applying a subtler and more personal... —
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Set alongside a Radu Lupu or Maria João Pires, Lewis’s colours are generally more circumscribed, at times ruggedly clangorous...But his intellectual rigour and dramatic fearlessness counterbalance... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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JS Bach: The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 10
Trio Sonatas, BWV 525-530 - Notebook For Anna Magdalena
Benjamin Alard (harpsichord, clavichord), Gerlinde Sämann (soprano)
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...in Andreas Staier's own words, 'this programme is a declaration of love to Georg Philipp Telemann, perhaps the wittiest, most charming and most cheerful composer Germany has ever produced'.... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Instrumental Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, Instrumental Choice
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Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata & other works for cello and piano
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
a masterstroke of programme planning —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2006, Editor's Choice
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the sheer range of Petersen's soprano and her interests enables her to compel and convince as much in 1821 Schubert as in German composer Manfred Trojahn's settings from 2008...Most fascinating... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Vocal Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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Andreas Staier: Pour passer la mélancolie
RecommendedAndreas Staier (anon. French harpsichord, late 17th century, Joseph Collesse, 1749, restored by Laurent Soumagnac 2000-4)
a satisfying issue on a fine-sounding and sympathetically recorded mid-18th-century harpsichord. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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