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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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Lise de la Salle is fully in command of the technical difficulties and much of her playing is exciting —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th September 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2004, Disc of the Month
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Building a Library, March 2002, Period Instrument Choice
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Building a Library, November 2018, Also Recommended
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…Piau's radiant tone, renowned clarity of diction and range of sensuous emotion make this a heavenly experience. —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2008, Editor's 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. Stravinsky & Prokofiev: Violin Concertos
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Kopatchinskaja brings [virtuosity] to the [Stravinsky] in spades, but she also shatters the image of the work as a neo-classical homage to Bach...Her whole approach to Stravinsky...brings his... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Special offer. Kopatchinskaja: Rapsodia
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Emilia Kopatchinskaja (violin & viola), Viktor Kopatchinsky (cimbalom), Martin Gjakonovski (double bass) & Mihaela Ursuleasa (piano)
[in the Enescu] both Kopatchinskaya and her partner Mihaela Ursuleasa [project] an instinctive feeling for the almost improvisatory musical line. Finally Ravel's Tzigane is presented not as... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2011, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Il sesto libro de madrigali, 1614
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
Three things stand out about Alessandrini's version. First, his extraordinary feel for the words… Second, his revised edition which gives him access to newly revealed dissonances… And third,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2006, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Douce France
RecommendedAnne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano), Bengt Forsberg (piano), Antoine Tamestit (viola)
A pair of discs to warm any Francophile's heart...Disc one is devoted to an alluring collection of melodies...However, this goes beyond a usual traversal of the genre...[for the second disc]... —
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Grammy Awards, 57th Awards (2014), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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