Hyperion
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Dohnányi: Piano Quintets & String Quartet No. 2
RecommendedMarc-André Hamelin (piano)
Takács Quartet
The Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin capture the freshness and vitality of this youthful work to perfection, its outer movements and Scherzo projected here with all the necessary exhilaration... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Chamber Choice
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Diapason d’Or, February 2020, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Chamber
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Schumann - Dichterliebe & other Heine settings
RecommendedGerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano)
Isserlis's mobile, feeling but never gushing legato lines… Hough's winged, crystalline partnership. —
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Building a Library, June 2010, Featured
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2008, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Winner - Early Music
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These singers are always nicely in tune and effectively blended, especially in the slower movements of the Mass where they strongly project the chordal colouring in the ‘Qui tollis’ and perfectly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, Editor's Choice
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The three works here demonstrate that Pixi’s neglect is somewhat unfair. [The Leonores] give an infectious account of the opening movement of the First Trio, which is infectious stuff…The Third... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Bostridge is in the royal line of Britten's tenor interpreters. Indeed his imaginative response to words and music may come closer than any to Pears himself. He's heard here in a veritable cornucopia... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 76 - Rheinberger & Scholz
Simon Callaghan (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ben Gernon
The only piano concerto by Josef Rheinberger dates from 1877 and is a vast, rich work, owing as much to Brahms as to Schumann. And if Bernhard Scholz’s concerto (1883) is somewhat looser in... —
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Shelley makes the most of Benda’s ear-catching and surprisingly volatile piano figuration in the fast movements and brings a soulful quality to the melodies in the slow movements...the London... —
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Stanford: Requiem
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson (soprano), Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo-soprano), James Way (tenor), Ross Ramgobin (baritone), University of Birmingham Voices, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Brabbins, who truly understands the language of this music, judges the tempos and balance of the ensemble with instinctive sensitivity...For anyone interested in British choral music of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Choral
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This is likely to become one of your most cherished discs. It's notable for its spacious depth of sound, volatile unpredictability of interpretation, and above all the soaring sostenuto of the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Winner - Early Music (Medieval and Renaissance)
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Building a Library, June 2016, Also Recommended
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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