Naxos
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Even by the high standards of previous Maggini/ Naxos offerings, this is an exceptionally fine disc.
If you don't know Frank Bridge's First Quartet of 1906, its ardour and melodic fecundity... —Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2003, Editor's Choice
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Bax composed the last of his three mature string quartets between May and September 1936, inscribing it to the Griller Quartet who gave the first performance on the BBC National Programme the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2003, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Sheng: Orchestral Works
Juliana Gondek (soprano) & Zhang Qiang (pipa)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Samuel Wong
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2003, Editor's Choice
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The centrepiece here is Ockeghem's L'homme armé Mass. It may be one of his earliest Masses, dating perhaps from the early 1450s. It's also one of his most curious. For the most part it lies... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The Oxford Camerata provides a representative selection of choral works by Gibbons, together with three of his organ pieces. The programme is introduced by a bright and busy performance of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 1996, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, October 2018, Recommended Recording
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Despres: Missa L'homme armé, Ave Maria, Absalon Fili Mi
RecommendedOxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 5 'Emperor' & 0
Boris Giltburg (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Playing a bright-toned Fazioli grand with grand with steely authority, Giltburg gives a fine account of the ‘Emperor’ Concerto...In short, a reliable, inexpensive, straight-down-the-middle modern... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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These three Russian virtuosos present the two trios with equal conviction, summoning up different palettes of colours for some truly high-level music-making. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Barbara Kubiak - Soprano I (Magna Peccatrix), Izabela Klosinska - Soprano II (Una Poenitentium), Marta Boberska - Soprano III (Mater Gloriosa), Jadwiga Rappé - Alto I (Mulier Samaritana), Ewa Marciniec - Alto II (Maria Aegyptica), Timothy Bentch - Tenor (Doctor Marianus), Wojtek Drabowicz - Baritone...
