Orchid Classics - up to 25% off selected titles
Until 2nd September, we are offering up to 25% off selected Orchid Classics titles on CD, Vinyl, & Downloads.
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Special offer. The Four Quarters
The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell (tape), Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress (electronics), William Marsey (tape)
This terrific, imaginative debut recording from the young British quartet is built around the eponymous 2011 work by Thomas Adès, which is interleaved with the group's own arrangements of works... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Special offer. The Enescu Project
Cécile Agator (violin), Flore-Anne Brosseau (viola), Samuel Etienne (cello), Nicolas Dautricourt (violin), Romuald Grimbert-Barré, Ludovic Levionnois, Edouard Sapey-Triomphe, Benedict Klöckner (cello), Maya Koch, David Gaillard, Capriccio Quartet
This is collegial, congenial playing – true to the music’s spirit. —
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Inevitably, the influence of Bach courses through the veins of all these works. But what makes a top Bach performance? The checklist is daunting: dances and metres need to be defined and characterised,... —
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The performances are generally fine; one must single out Pernille Petersen’s recorder, which she can make sound like everything from a clarinet to a piccolo. She is sensationally virtuosic in... —
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Special offer. Around the World in 80 Minutes
Coco Tomita (violin), Yume Tomita, Rebecca You, Jana Jakovljevic, Mariam Obolashvili, Vadym Perig, Robin Wilson, Ashley Wass (piano), Levi Andreassen, Nathan Perry, Mischa Carr, Alasdair Howell, Zeynep Özden, Richard Zhang, Henry Lin, Simon Nivy, Kotone Ozaki, Jason Zheng, Jude Usborne, Clara Wernig,...
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Special offer. Yuri Zhislin - Bartόk
USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra, Yuri Zhislin, Valery Polyansky
Yuri Zhislin, in a relatively unusual move, is soloist on viola and violin – and proves equally mesmerising on both. He is blessed with a smooth, luminous sound, eloquently alive and expressive,... —
