Naxos
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1st Chopin Festival Hamburg 2018
Live Recording
Ewa Pobłocka, Alexei Lubimov, Tobias Koch, Elisabeth Brauß, François-Xavier Poizat, Hubert Rutkowski
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Descharmes has good fingers, which one certainly needs for Saint-Saëns, and at time he employs them to produce that sparkling style known to the French as jeu perlé. In the three shorter pieces... —
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The playing is everything one could wish for, the recording is excellent and the liner notes, by the quartet’s Sarita Kwok, give valuable information on the works. Even well-stocked quartet... —
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Most successful are the Poulenc items, especially the early cycle Le Bestiaire – heard in the composer’s own arrangement of the original for voice and ensemble – to which d’Or brings the appropriate... —
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 8 amd 23 (arr. Lachner) & Die Zauberflöte (arr. for string quintet)
Didier Castell-Jacomin (piano)
Vienna Chamber Symphony Quintet