Hyperion
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There's no need for analogies about a surfeit of Viennese cream-cakes with this excellent CD: the musical inventions is so brilliant and varied, and the performance so coruscating, that one's... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th July 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2008, Editor's Choice
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Walton: Violin Concerto, Partita & Hindemith Variations
RecommendedAnthony Marwood (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Anthony Marwood’s un-flashy individualism seems to be operating at an opposite pole to the Heifetz way, and generates memorable results of its own. While Marwood has all the virtuosity that... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2017
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Record Review, 1st July 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2002, Editor's Choice
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The opening Allegretto ma non troppo of Sonata No. 28 in A, Op. 101 finds her in suitably reflective mood...It's in the Finale, however, where this performance takes off...Here, her long-term... —
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Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony
RecommendedSteven Osborne (piano) & Cynthia Millar (ondes Martenot)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena
Any performance must keep sight of the romantic, sometimes disturbing, core of the work. This is clearly understood in this performance from Juanjo Mena and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra...the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2012, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, February 2023, Also Recommended
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Isserlis here achieves a beauty, finesse and attack with the cello less evident from his playing 20 years ago: his technique is phenomenal, his bowing at once wildly abandoned and absolutely... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2006, Editor's Choice
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Poulenc - Gloria and Motets
RecommendedSusan Gritton
Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Stephen Layton
Stephen Layton's tight control of his forces, both choral and orchestral, lends impeccable ensemble and heart-thumping excitement - has the opening tutti ever had such punch? Soprano Susan... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2008, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, February 2020, Also Recommended
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Their approach is alert, texturally clear and passionate … these are admriable performances which I recommend to any prospective buyer … this new Takács reading weighs in at the top end of the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Chamber
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The cycle’s nine songs form an irrepressible exclamation of love bursting through the composer’s customary nonchalance. […] This is Fauré for the concert hall rather than the drawing room, big-hearted,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Song
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…Stephen Hough has technically and spiritually digested the first book of Années de pèlerinage to the extent that he can risk personalising certain pieces without sounding the least bit mannered.... —
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Building a Library, March 2011, First Choice
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