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Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 1-6 RecommendedTokyo String Quartet
Koichiro Harada (violin), Kikuei Ikeda (violin), Kazuhide Isomura (viola) & Sadao Harada (cello)
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Building a Library, September 2005, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1981, Winner - Chamber
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These performances provide more impressive sampling points than can be enumerated in a single review. The First Quartet's oscillating tempo-shifts work wonderfully well, all with total naturalness.... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, February 2021, Recommended Recording
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Colour is...very much the Hagen's thing, widely spaced dynamics too, which are vividly projected; and where keeping to the letter matters most, they don't disappoint either — More…
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Building a Library, February 2021, Also Recommended
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Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste
RecommendedHungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltan Kocsis
Every strand in Bartók's dense contrapuntal argument emerges here with amazing clarity...The performance, too, is utterly compelling...Kocsis's steadfast refusal to let the tension sag coupled... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2015, Highly Recommended
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2001, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, November 2022, Recommended Recording
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Kopatchinskaja & Fazil Say - Violin Sonatas
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin) & Fazil Say (piano)
This is far from being just another recording of the Kreutzer Sonata. Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazil Say share a radical approach, performing each musical gesture in the most vivid way, with... — More…
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Building A Library, July 2021, Recommended Recording
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The group approaches Haydn and Mozart, particularly in the “Dissonance” Quartet, with a subtle use of rubato that brings every phrase to life. Overall, Quatuor Modigliani manages to successfully... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2023, Recommended Recording - Dissonance Quartet
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Building a Library, February 2021, Also Recommended
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Martha Argerich: Lugano Concertos
RecommendedMartha Argerich (piano), with Alexander Gurning (piano), with Paul Gulda & Rico Gulda (piano), with Akane Sakai (piano), with Alexander Mogilevsky (piano), with Gabriela Montero (piano), Susan Roberts, Helene Schneidermann, Daniel Norman, Carsten Wittmoser, Yulia Zaichkina, Alexander Mogilevsky...
I would not deter anyone from duplicating because...there are many moments and passages of pure delight, often deriving from the frisson of a live performance (listen to the Poulenc!) One marvels... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2017, Also Recommended
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