Bartók
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[The playing] can affectionately embrace the whimsical to the manner born, but equally bristles with spellbinding virtuosity, compelling insight and crests a lifeforce carrying all before it. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Recording of the Month
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Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Martinu: Memorial to Lidice & Klein: Partita Philadelphia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
Eschenbach opens with Martinů's Memorial to Lidice… this performance serves to intensify an overriding feeling of despair, the Philadelphians responding with a chilling incisiveness particularly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2006, Editor's Choice
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All in all, this is an intelligently devised, brilliantly executed and warmly recorded disc, raising hopes that the Notos Quarttett can come up trumps again with further worthwhile discoveries. — More…
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Bartók & Ligeti: Ensemble Intercontemporain
Jérôme Comte (clarinet), Diego Tosi (violin) & Sébastien Vichard (piano), Gilles Durot, Samuel Favre (percussions) & Dimitri Vassilakis, Sébastien Vichard (pianos), Hidéki Nagano (piano), Pierre Strauch (cello), Jeanne-Marie Conquer (violin)
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher
Others may have taken the opening Vivace of Ligeti's Piano Concerto at more of a lick, but the precision here packs a punch, and there's a sheer sense of fun as the final two movements develop... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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L’Histoire Du Soldat & Contrastes
David Lefevre (violin), Florent Heau (clarinet) & Anne-Lise Gastaldi (piano)
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Bartók's pianism is full of colour and life. — More…
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Benny Goodman - Collector's Edition
RecommendedBenny Goodman (clarinet), Joseph Szigeti (violin), Béla Bartók (piano)
Columbia Jazz Combo, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky, Morton Gould
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Gramophone Awards, 1980, Winner - Historic non-vocal
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Martha Argerich: Carte blanche
RecommendedJulian Rachlin (violin), Mischa Maisky (violoncello) & Martha Argerich (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Lang Lang & Martha Argerich (piano), Yuri Bashmet (viola) & Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin) & Martha Argerich (piano), Gabriela Montero & Martha Argerich (pianos),...
As soloist, Argerich’s tender reading of Kinderszenen is almost beyond compare, displaying an astonishing ability to turn the piano into a singing instrument in every bar. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th July 2015
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Itzhak Perlman & Pinchas Zukerman play music for two violins
RecommendedItzhak Perlman Vol. 20
Itzhak Perlman (violin), Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Samuel Sanders (piano)
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Grammy Awards, 23rd Awards (1980), Best Chamber Music Recording
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The flute-and-guitar repertoire may be small but one cannot say it doesn't cater for all tastes...[the Shankar] is mesmerising and, like the programme as a whole, a kaleidoscope of infinite... — More…
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