Harmonia Mundi
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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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Widmann: Viola Concerto
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Signum Quartett
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Daniel Harding
This is a wonderfully rich and rewarding concerto, packed with inventive orchestral detail. Widmann seems to move between different worlds ion the five interlinked movements, and the slower... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Concerto Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Premiere
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Martin, F: Golgotha
Judith Gauthier (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (alto), Adrian Thompson (tenor), Mattijs van de Woerd (baritone) & Konstantin Wolff (bass)
Cappella Amsterdam, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Reuss
A restrained, haunting chromaticism suffuses the music...The choral contributions throughout are engaged and responsive...this is a strong performance of a work where this is limited competition... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Choral
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 'Lobgesang'
RecommendedChristiane Karg, Christina Landshamer (sopranos) & Michael Schade (tenor)
Chorus & Orchestra of Bavarian Radio, Pablo Heras-Casado
Its quasi-devotional, cross-genre status demands special advocacy, and gets it ...Michael Schade, Christiane Karg and Christina Landshammer are the persuasive soloists, while the chorus radiates... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th March 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Although there are moments when the angst within Schubert's responses to Mayrhofer and the vanished gods could be more biting, Goerne has the measure of the noble declamation of these unique... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
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Birds on Fire… is by Orlando Gough (b1953), a British composer… The music is hauntingly coloured by reference to klezmer tunes, while the second movement grows over a hypnotic ostinato. A... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2008, Editor's Choice
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From Roger Vignoles's first light-filled notes in 'Bei mir sind meine Gedanken', with Bernada Fink's smiling, wide-eyed voice, these performers make it sound as though the ink is still wet on... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Solo
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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Schumann: Cello Concerto & Piano Concerto
RecommendedChristophe Coin (cello), Andreas Staier (piano)
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
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Building a Library, June 2010, First Choice
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Building a Library, April 2019, Also Recommended
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Pärt - Da Pacem
RecommendedChristopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier
The Estonian Chamber Choir under Paul Hillier sings everything with near miraculous precision and delicate dedication… an aural delight. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 49th Awards (2006), Best Choral Performance
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