Harmonia Mundi
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Hindemith: Sonatas for piano and….
Alexander Melnikov (piano), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jeroen Berwaerts (trumpet), Teunis van der Zwart (althorn), Gérard Costes (trombone), Alexander Rudin (cello)
These three brass sonatas generally come across with more subtlety than on the well-known recordings by Glenn Gould and friends. Anchoring this new project, Alexander Melnikov is a superbly... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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The most striking feature of these performances is how wonderfully varied they are. In some pieces… the presentational style almost enters the realm of musical theatre, while in Tallis's God... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Bach, J S: English Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV806-811
Richard Egarr [harpsichord, by Joel Katzman, Amsterdam, 1991, after Ruckers, Antwerp, 1638]. Pitch: a’ = 409 • Temperament: Egarr, based on 18th-century models
Egarr opens No. 1 like a lutenist improvising, flexing his fingers and checking his tuning, before embarking on a thoughtful stream of deliberate quavers...The dances are full of imaginative... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Instrumental Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, Instrumental Choice
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Le Concert Royal de la Nuit
Louis XIV 1715-2015 Celebration, Special Edition
Violaine le Chenadec (soprano), Marie-Frédérique Girod (soprano), Caroline Bardot (soprano), Caroline Weynants (soprano), Amandine Trenc (soprano), Caroline Meng (soprano), Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano), Dagmar Sasková (mezzo-soprano), Stephanie Leclerc (contralto), Stephen Collardelle (countertenor),...
Some of the music for ‘La Nuit’ is genuinely atmospheric and is sung with sustained tone and exquisite ornamentation by Lucile Richardot … The instrumental accompaniment is unfailingly funny... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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The sheer inquisitive delight that these singers bring to Gesualdo’s extraordinary world indicates a very exciting series ahead. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Early Music
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Conspirare’s reading of these pieces is passionate without being perfumed. A lovely recording, in immaculate sound. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 57th Awards (2014), Best Choral Performance
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Méhul: Les Amazones Overture
RecommendedLes Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Roth and his period-instrument orchestra give a fine account of the Eroica with a beautifully balanced sound, and with the detail brilliantly brought out. With its measured tread the funeral... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd April 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Playing [the Rachmaninov] on a modern Steinway, Melnikov’s masterful fluency in the tumultuous piano writing is beautifully balanced in relation to the cello part; and Queyras’s delivery of... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Bernarda Fink proves conclusively here that she can be just as compelling in German song as she is in Baroque works. For a start few accounts of any of these pieces have been quite so beautifully... —
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Building a Library, June 2003, Modern Studio Recording Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2002, Editor's Choice
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D’Oustrac is dazzling across these various personae, to which she brings not only luscious vocalism but also a blistering intensity. No less impressive is the Ensemble Amarillis…for zest and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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