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The Mosaïques, at a rather slower tempo than usual, find in the themeand- variation finale of the G major Quartet, No 5, an unsuspected reflective tenderness.
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Gramophone Awards, 1996, Winner - Chamber
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The shifts from unsettling ellis island Kurtág to the comforting, tonal minimalism of Monk and Mingus effectively illustrate a profound journey but it's in the Bartók that Hamos really flies,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, October 2001, First Choice
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Special offer. Schubert: String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, D87, etc.
RecommendedQuatuor Mosaïques
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Lootens's expansive, mature take on Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Paganini homage, the multifaceted Capriccio diabolico, is not so much the programme's apotheosis as the casting of a musical eye back... —
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Special offer. Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 77 No. 1 in G major, etc.
RecommendedQuatuor Mosaïques (on period instruments)
Anyone who thinks that period-instrument performance means austerity and coolness should listen to this disc. Here's playing full of expressive warmth and vigour. The opening of Op 77 No 1 is... —
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Building a Library, May 2016, First Choice
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Piau negotiates with true French panache both the vocal and emotional highs and lows. Her voice is as sensual as Piaf, poetic as Greco, and with a chameleon-like sensitivity to the dramatic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2012, Editor's Choice
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Opera, October 2012, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Beethoven - Violin Concerto, Romances & Fragment Concerto
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Patricia Kopatchinskaja's warmly recorded account of the Beethoven Violin Concerto must be one of the most stimulating and provocative that has ever been committed to disc. She opts… to interpret... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Orchestral Award Winner
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They certainly play with precision and verve, with a nod towards period practice in their approach to Mozart, but also with an implication that ‘Mozart’s music must be completely alive and continue... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2018
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Special offer. Ne me refuse pas: French Opera Arias
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Orchestre National de France, Fabien Gabel
This procession of femmes fatales, schemers and innocents has a point to make, and it's not just the singer's ability to get under their skin...it shows them as part of a larger movement: the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Recital
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Opera, June 2011, Recording of the Month
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