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Hamelin again achieves the almost physically impossible with seeming ease. Albéniz's multiple layers are finely balanced, and apparently awkward textures come to life in a lucid acoustic with... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2005, Editor's Choice
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The Songs of Robert Schumann - Volume 5
RecommendedDichterliebe and other Heine settings
Christopher Maltman (baritone) & Graham Johnson (piano)
With this superbly executed recital Maltman leaps in a single bound into the front rank of Lieder interpreters today. Seemingly inspired by the wonderful programme, he executes it with bitingly... —
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Building a Library, June 2010, Featured
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2001, Editor's Choice
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Every bit as intellectually lucid, technically secure and focussed, as her Bach … this exhilarating clarity of thought is matched by her clean incisive sound (well caught by the recording),... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2006, Editor's Choice
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Philippe Graffin is the violinist in this impassioned performance of the two Violin Sonatas, ably accompanied by pianist Pascal Devoyon. The disc includes a few shorter works such as two Elégies,... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Once ranked with Beethoven's, Weber's sonatas are now little known. Ohlsson's masterful playing, ranging from the scintillatingly soloistic, engrossingly exposes a miscarriage of justice. —
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The Nash Ensemble’s performances are first-rate, but a bit more space around the recorded sound wouldn’t have gone amiss. —
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There's plenty in this nicely-planned recital that's on a par with the celebrated Rhapsody and undeserving of present neglect —
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Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D667 'The Trout', etc.
Paul Lewis (piano) & Graham Mitchell (double bass)
Leopold String Trio
Following their splendid collaboration in the Mozart quartets… Paul Lewis and the Leopold Trio (with Graham Mitchell) are equally impressive in the Trout. High spirits and poetry are given... —
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The one to knock Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore from the pedestal … Johnson and Goerne plumb the emotional depths of one of the most heart-wrenchingly sublime masterpieces in the genre —
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & 4 Klavierstücke
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
