30th Anniversary
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Such flair proves The Florestan Trio, if proof is needed, to be among the finest chamber ensembles of the present day. Outstandingly imaginative performances, finely recorded —
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Building a Library, December 2022, Recommended Recording
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No one who loves Schumann should miss this outstandingly fine new disc —Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1999, Winner - Chamber
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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D795
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano) & Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (reader)
Bostridge’s peculiarly beseeching voice enshrines the vulnerability, tender feeling and obsessive love of the youthful miller … a soulsearching interpretation —
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Gramophone Awards, 1996, Winner - Solo vocal
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Baroque Music from Latin America: New World Symphonies
From Araujo to Zipoli: an A to Z of Latin American Baroque Music
Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore
This is one of the most eye-opening CDs—or should I say ear-opening— that I have heard this year. What a magical concoction of sounds—and what brilliant playing! —
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The one to knock Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore from the pedestal … Johnson and Goerne plumb the emotional depths of one of the most heart-wrenchingly sublime masterpieces in the genre —
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These performances of Fauré’s piano quartets from Domus are a highlight of the label and should be in every collection —
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Chamber
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Outstanding Rachmaninov playing of acute perception, discretion and poetic sensibility, limpid, powerful and luminous in equal measure —
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Unreservedly recommended —
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Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
and other works
Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Amanda Roocroft (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), Anne Dawson (soprano), Linda Kitchen (soprano), Alan Opie (baritone), Gwynne Howell (bass), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers...
Performances like these don’t come along very often; each one is an absolute winner, and with rich, atmospheric recording quality the satisfaction is of a very special quality —
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Vivaldi: Lute & Mandolin Concertos
Paul O'Dette (baroque lute, soprano lute & mandolin)
The Parley of Instruments, Roy Goodman & Peter Holman
The performances are ‘authentic’ in the best meaning of the word, and the recorded sound is everywhere first rate —
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