Harmonia Mundi
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Mozart: Idomeneo, K366
RecommendedRichard Croft (Idomeneo), Bernarda Fink (Idamante), Sunhae Im (Ilia), Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Elettra), Kenneth Tarver (Arbace), Nicolas Rivenq (Gran Sacerdote) & Luca Tittoto (La Voce)
RIAS Kammerchor & Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
Jacob's strongest players are the superb Idamante of Bernarda Fink: tender, ardent and in touch with every nerve-ending of every beautifully shaped phrase. Alexandrina Pendatchanska, from her... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th May 2009
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2009, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5
RecommendedPaul Lewis (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlávek
This new set of the Beethoven concertos is interestingly different in emphasis, in that whereas I had previously thought of Lewis as primarily a thoughtful, searching player...these accounts... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th July 2010
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Disc of the Month
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Paul Lewis is a serious artist, and the quality of his playing, beautifully captured by Harmonia Mundi's engineers, is of a very high standard throughout. Particularly fine is the Waldstein... —
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Building a Library, March 2016, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2006, Disc of the Month
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The piece's vitality and brilliance of invention shine forth in the strongest and most appealing orchestral colours…the quality of playing is extraordinary…the period instruments register superbly... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, Disc of the month
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Tragic Overture
Alexander Melnikov (piano), Sinfonieorchester Basel, Ivor Bolton
The final track is an unexpected joy: the overture to Éliza by Cherubini, a composer Brahms greatly admired. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Punto’s favoured instrument was the cor basse, and Van der Zwart adopts a wide mouthpiece to create what he describes as a more velvety sound in the low register. In the Ries, that’s echoed... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Editor's Choice
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If you like your Mozart taut and urgent, with no concessions to Mozartian ‘charm’, you should find these brilliantly executed performances as riveting as I do. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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Richard Strauss: Don Quixote & Till Eulenspiegel
RecommendedTabea Zimmermann (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, François-Xavier Roth
Queyras's subtlety is peerless in Quixote’s melancholy nocturnal vigil…Roth’s Till Eulenspiegel is among the very liveliest…there’s wonderful woodwind character as Till skips alongside the pedants,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Quatuor Hanson embrace this music as if in a romantic fairy tale...a wholly excellent performance, pleasing and competitive. —
