Harmonia Mundi
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Murray is the latest in a long line of soloists who have managed to conquer most of [the Sonatas'] technical difficulties and focus on the music. I say most: the opening of his First Sonata... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2012, Editor's Choice
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Surprisingly crisp and spry these readings may be, but the result sounds and feels authentically Mozartian, Jacobs coaxing alert and alive playing from a band on the very top of their form. —
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Building a Library, February 2020, Recommended Recording
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Ranging from plainchant and motets to 17th Century dialogues and contemporary carol settings, it sounds like it may come across as a bit of a hotchpotch. But it doesn’t at all and with singing... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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Superbly recorded, it is a masterclass in outstanding breadth of interpretation, balance and total teamwork … the group’s ‘worker’s co-operative’ ethos continues to reap dividends with, on this... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Mozart - The Last Concertos
Lorenzo Coppola (basset clarinet), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Kreutzer Sonata
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Prague Philharmonia, Jirí Belohlávek
Beethoven described his Kreutzer Sonata as being written 'in a very concertante style, more like that of a concerto', so it makes an apt companion-piece for his actual Violin Concerto. Isabelle... —
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Queyras is master of his instrument. Intonation is well-nigh impeccable, including meeting Bach's demands of a five-string cello on a normal four-strong instrument… He's an exciting player.... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2008
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Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo
RecommendedMaria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Rosa Dominguez (soprano), Bernarda Fink (alto), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Ulrich Messthaler (bass), Gerd Türk (tenor)
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, René Jacobs
Caldara was the most prolific and famous oratorio composer of his day and this one, written around 1700, is wonderfully rich in fresh and attractive invention.
Practically devoid of external... —Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Schoenberg: Die Jakobsleiter, etc.
Dietrich Henschel, Jonas Kaufmann, Stephan Rügamer, Michael Volle
Rundfunkchor Berlin, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano
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Bach: Cantatas for Alto Solo
RecommendedAndreas Scholl (alto)
Orchestre du Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe
Above all, I was captivated by the crystalline purity and effortless grace of Scholl’s voice. This reading of Bach’s alto cantatas transports the listener to the realms of the sublime. —
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