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At once, I became a captive audience, scarcely comprehending the wit and originality of ideas and the composer’s colourful instrumentation. —
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Building A Library, February 2022, Also Recommended
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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There’s a lovely vernal bloom to this Jardin des Voix alumna’s high-lying mezzo, and she’s fully alive to the taut drama of these concise French baroque cantatas, the majority of which receive... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
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This new arrangement by Simone Menezes – here conducting the Philharmonia Zürich – preserves the epic scale of Vi l l a-Lobos ’s revised work, renosing it into a more practical 45-minute symphonic... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Van Mechelen carefully chose the repertoire, not merely for the most suitable vocal writing but also to illustrate some of Clérambault’s preoccupations…From the opening track, the musicians... —
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Diapason d’Or, March 2018, Nouveauté
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Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin/sprechgesang), Meesun Hong (violin), Julia Gallego (flute), Reto Bieri (clarinet), Thomas Kaufmann (cello), Joonas Ahonen (piano), Marko Milenkovic (viola)
Kopatchinskaja’s approach – sharp-focus, hyper-detailed and searching out over-the-top extremes of vocal delivery – is remarkable in its way...The upside is the superlatively precise and stylish... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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JS Bach: Concertos for Pianos
Evgeni Koroliov (piano), Ljupka Hadzi-Georgieva (piano), Anna Vinnitskaya (piano)
Kammerakademie Potsdam
Those who want all of Bach’s multiple keyboard concertos on the piano cannot do better. Highly recommended. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Instrumental
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Ensemble Calliopée do the works proud… displaying a refinement of tone that this repertoire all too rarely receives. With exemplary sound from Alpha, this is a self-recommending issue and a... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th May 2009
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Sibelius & Rautavaara: Violin Concertos
Tobias Feldmann (violin), Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
I love the parallels between these two Finnish concertos which Feldman and Kantarow draw out, from the especially ethereal treatment of the opening of the Sibelius (which anticipates the disembodied... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
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