Harmonia Mundi
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Lawes’s music is in general jolly and introspective by turns. Boothby plays in a charmingly gentle, often elegant yet spare way that suggests he is enjoying a private pleasure which we are nonetheless... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2016, Editor's Choice
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Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384
RecommendedMari Eriksmoen (Blondchen), Robin Johannsen (Konstanze), Maximilian Schmitt (Belmonte), Julian Prégardien (Pedrillo), Dimitry Ivashchenko (Osmin), Cornelius Obonya (Bassa Selim)
RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
Here’s another Mozart Singspiel recreated as an audio-drama, with both René Jacobs’s intensely musical direction, orchestral playing tingling with character and detail...Dimitry Ivashchenko‘s... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Emmanuelle Bertrand plays Dutilleux & Debussy
Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (piano)
Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, James Gaffigan
I can't do better than quote the testimony of Henri Dutilleux himself, praising 'the transparency of Emmanuelle Bertrand's sound, her rhythmic strictness, her technical perfection, the brio... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, Concerto Choice
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Pachelbel: Un orage d’avril / April Storm
RecommendedSuites from Musikalische Ergötzung, Canon & Gigue, Arias
Hans-Jörg Mammel (tenor)
Gli incogniti, Amandine Beyer
Fine music…[and] in Gli Incogniti it finds itself in expert hands. There is depth and sweetness to their sound, clarity and busyness to their counterpoint, and buoyancy to their expression of... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Lalande: Grands Motets, Dies Irae, Miserere & Veni Creator
Ensemble Correspondances (early music ensemble), Sébastien Daucé
Barring one or two vocal moments, Ensemble Correspondances are perfect advocates for this music that at last receives the interpretation it deserves. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Choral
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The vivaciously spirited performances pack a visceral punch. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 - Franck, Fauré & Poulenc
Bruno Philippe (cello), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, Tanguy de Williencourt (piano)
Philippe possesses a lovely tone in lyrical items such as Fauré’s Romance and Après un rêve, and technically is well up to all the challenges. His best interpretation is of the Poulenc Cello... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2024, Recording of the Month
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With Bertrand, tiny embellishments and a kaleidoscopic range of colours make listening a particular pleasure…You get the impression that she’s recalling the music from memory rather than reading... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Editor's Choice
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Complices
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello, piano), Alexandre Tharaud (piano, cello), Raphaël Imbert (soloist), Stéphanie-Marie Degand, La Diane française
Queyras and Tharaud clearly enjoy the process as well as the freedom of interpretation and presentation that the encore gives. But there is a niggling feeling here of something missing, and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
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He brings a thoughtfulness to the dramatic opening of the B flat minor Second Sonata and palpably enjoys the lyricism of the second theme. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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