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Special offer. Biber: The Mystery Sonatas
RecommendedChristina Day Martinson
Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
Martinson even prefaces each sonata by sounding the open strings – well intentioned no doubt, though perhaps ultimately a little intrusive…A pity because didacticism couldn’t be further from... —
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Instrumental Solo
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Special offer. Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Don Juan, Sechs Lieder Op. 68
RecommendedLouise Alder (soprano), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati
When orchestral sonorities and engineering coincide like this, the result in Strauss is thrilling...Ticciati’s winged uplift gilds the afterlife beautifully, while there’s dynamic restraint... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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These performances by Phantasm find conversation, play and dance in the unlikeliest of contrapuntal moments. What, essentially, is most fantastic about this disc is that we are listening to... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Chamber Choice
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Special offer. John Ward - Consort music for five and six viols
Emilia Benjamin (tenor viol) & Mikko Perkola (bass viol)
Phantasm
Phantasm's playing is impeccable, alternately exposing motifs and coalescing in sonorities all the richer for being so perfectly in tune. Their performance is supported by surround-sound recording,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Early Music
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Special offer. Katherine Bryan plays Flute Concertos by Christopher Rouse and Jacques Ibert
Katherine Bryan (flute)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jac van Steen
Bryan certainly has complete mastery of the [Rouse's] technical and expressive demands, as she does in Ibert's Concerto of 1933...Her playing of Debussy's Syrinx, the ne plus ultra of the solo... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2013, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. La Guitarra Espanola
The Music of Santiago de Murcia
William Carter (baroque guitar) & Susanne Heinrich (bass viol)
Carter has given us de Murcia’s full stylistic and international range on this wonderful CD...De Murcia’s music, by turns sultry and playful, is brought to life by Carter’s light, dextrous,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2007, Editor's Choice
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The music on these two discs ranges from austere to luxuriant, urgent to serene. Magnificat’s director Philip Cave shapes poised, subtly expressive and finely balanced readings from the vocal... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Early Music
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Special offer. Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
RecommendedLorenzo Soulès (piano), Máté Szücs (viola), Richard Watkins (horn), Allan Clayton (tenor)
Aldeburgh Strings, Markus Däunert
In Britten’s buoyant Young Apollo Aldeburgh Strings field a greater weight and range of colour that Rattle’s CBSO, making the work sound more expressive and substantial, and Lorenzo Soulès is... —
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Building A Library, March 2022, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Fleur de mon âme
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Simon Lepper (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra Soloists
The intimacy and tenderness which she and Lepper bring to Hahn's evergreen À Chloris is worth the price of the disc alone, but everything here is utterly beguiling, with the strings of the RSNO... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Special offer. Britten & Elgar: Sea Interludes, Violin Concerto
Michael Barenboim (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, Alessandro Crudele
While Michael Barenboim’s approach is untypical of what might be thought of as wistful English tradition, it nonetheless has impressive strengths of its own…Besides superb technical command,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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