Grammy Awards, Classical (era)
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Schubert: Death and the Maiden
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
This must have been an enthralling concert. It’s almost impossible to imagine Schubert’s Death and the Maiden in a string orchestral arrangement better played, with Kopatchinskaja a dynamic... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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I attended some of these sessions and can still recall the forensic care and commitment the Takács brought to these works. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 45th Awards (2002), Best Chamber Music Recording
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The Takács do a fine job here: controlled, well paced and impeccably balanced.
They manage to balance the music's vertical and horizontal aspects beautifully, long-breathed contrapuntal lines... — More…Awards:
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Building a Library, September 2002, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Chamber
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2002, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 45th Awards (2002), Best Chamber Music Recording
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The readings have a lived-in quality: lively, warm, articulate, spacious and deeply felt on the plus side, a little frayed around the edges and tending towards the baggy on the other. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Winner - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
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Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 6 and Op. 1, No. 3
RecommendedLeonidas Kavakos (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano)
In the ‘Pastoral’, Ax had to contend with some ungrateful writing, notably in accompanying figures, but he is liberated [in Op. 1 No. 3], with trills and passagework sparkling effortlessly in... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts
RecommendedVirginia Majewski (viola), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello), Gabor Rejto (cello), Jascha Heifetz (violin), William Primrose (viola), Israel Baker (violin), Arnold Belnick (violin), Joseph Stepansky (violin), Paul Rosenthal (violin), Allan Harshman (viola), Laurence Lesser (cello), Pierre Amoyal (violin),...
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Grammy Awards, 5th Awards (1962), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Building A Library, October 2021, Also Recommended
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Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from Lugano 2016
RecommendedMartha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Sergey Babayan (piano), Sergio Tiempo (piano), Karin Lechner (piano), Nicholas Angelich (piano)
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David Guerrier, horn
violino, Tedi Papavrami (violin)
piano, Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana,...
This is the last of Warner’s annual gleanings from the Lugano Festival at which Martha Argerich presides - and definitely the most exciting. She may be 76, but her playing has lost none of... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended Recording
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Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-10 RecommendedItzhak Perlman (violin), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Although Beethoven designated these works as 'for piano and violin', following Mozart's example, it's unlikely that he thought of the piano as leading the proceedings, or the violin either,... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2002, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Grammy Awards, 21st Awards (1978), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Beethoven: Piano Trios
RecommendedItzhak Perlman (violin), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), Lynn Harrell (cello)
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Grammy Awards, 30th Awards (1987), Best Chamber Music Recording
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The rich, beautiful sonority that opens op. 59/1, aided by close-up miking, is captivating. There is perfect unanimity in the phrasing and ensemble balances. The Dover Quartet has performed... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
3 CDs
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