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Imagine Cyprien Katsaris fuelled by extra caffeine, or Joh Cleese’s wild comedic brain welded to Benjamin Grosvenor’s staggering, utterly inborn keyboard gifts, and you’ll understand what Andrew... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Solo Music
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Mozart: Concertos
RecommendedJos Van Immerseel (fortepiano) & Yoko Kaneko (fortepiano), Frank Theuns (flute), Marjan de Haer (harp), Ulrich Hubner (horn)
Anima Eterna
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Building a Library, September 2018, Recommended Recording
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Fuelled by a trip to Tunis, the two inner movements are imbued with ‘all the strangeness of Africa’ according to Antheil, and Kopatchinskaja is in thrall to their mercurial fantasy. She’s also... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Messiaen comes at the center of the program, and what a tender, clear-headed, and ultimately rapturous performance this is, most sensitively colored by the pianist. For me, the biggest surprise... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Weird but distinctly wonderful, this programme exploring the connections between the emerging early music and cabaret scenes in early twentieth-century Paris finds d'Oustrac not so much chewing... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2023
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Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Sally Matthews (Governess), Julian Hubbard (Peter Quint), Giselle Allen (Miss Jessel), Carole Wilson (Mrs Grose), Katharina Bierweiler (Flora), Thomas Heinen (Miles), Ed Lyon (Prologue)
La Monnaie Chamber Orchestra, Ben Glassberg
Ben Glassberg contributes a thoughtful essay to the booklet; with a few exceptions, his tempos are marginally broader than Britten’s, but the astonishing variety of invention, texture and atmosphere... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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Much of it is beautifully done. Charvet has a warm, appealing mezzo, with a tangy lower register and fine dynamic control at the top. She’s at her best in jazz-inflected or declamatory numbers...Manoff,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2019
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There’s a wonderfully spontaneous, almost rough-and-ready quality to these performances: resin flies and rhythms swing in the stomping gigas, whilst the mesmerising siciliana of the first concerto... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2020
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The Elias Quartet, whose penetration of Beethoven’s works is second to none, take Schumann’s anxiety fully into account, without in any way trying to make these later works comparable. A pity... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2018, Editor's Choice
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