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Young & Foolish: Mozart & CPE Bach
Céline Frisch (harpsichord/piano), Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Café Zimmermann, Pablo Valetti
Alexander Melnikov and Céline Frisch live up to the latter ’s name: their touches produce a suave velocity that bubbles through this bright and humorous music like a mountain stream. —
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JS Bach: Sonata à Cembalo è Viola da gamba
Lucile Boulanger (viola da gamba) & Arnaud de Pasquale (harpsichord)
There is no lack of recordings of the sonatas for harpsichord and viola da gamba. I haven't heard that many which really satisfy me, and that often has to do with the balance between the two... —
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Goerner successfully points out the various landmarks – such as the Spanish jota motif that is woven across all four books – without distracting from the overall free-form shape of the music.... —
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The French flautist and conductor François Lazarevitch has approached the inherent problems here by leaving everything unaccompanied but playing on no fewer than eight different instruments. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrumental
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A Dies Irae is an apt place for Prohaska to begin her musically wide-ranging exploration of ‘life in death’, and the gloom is leavened by lightness elsewhere. There are early musical delights,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2022
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It almost goes without saying that the performances are magnificent...Warmly supported by the Orchestre Victor Hugo under Jean-François Verdier and captured in glowing sound, Piau has created... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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The singers of Vox Luminis are clear, warm and unfussy in these beautifully shaped performances of works by two Baroque masters. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Mozart: Requiem - Paisiello: Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Chantal Santon Jeffery (soprano), Éléonore Pancrazi (mezzo), Mathias Vidal (tenor), Thomas Dolié (baritone), Le Concert de la Loge, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Julien Chauvin
Le Concert de la Loge treat it all with power and premiere energy, the Dies Irae driven along, never allowed to touch the ground, the ‘Rex Tremendae’ attentively articulated by orchestra and... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral
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Vinnitskaya and Kremerata Baltica collaborate in a particularly alert and responsive performance [of the Second Concerto]: the outer movements are perky and playful, and the well-loved slow... —
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[Järvi’s] super-group is not huge but its bright clarity, with violins antiphonally placed, does not preclude the plumbing of depths both physical and emotional…This must be one of the finer... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th January 2018
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