Schumann
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Es war einmal... (Once Upon a Time...)
Fairy Tales by Robert Schumann & Jörg Widmann
Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Tabea Zimmermann (viola) & Dénes Várjon (piano)
The first movement of Widmann’s piece has fragments in Schumannesque style floating in and out of focus…It’s an altogether impressive work, and Widmann is joined in this premiere recording by... — More…
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Chamber Music Recording (19th-Century Music)
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Musique de chambre
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Chamber Music
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Schumann: Piano Concerto & Piano Trio No. 2
RecommendedAlexander Melnikov (fortepiano), with Isabelle Faust (violin) & Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
What is especially striking in this charismatic and illuminating interpretation is Alexander Melnikov's capacity to muster such a wide dynamic range and varied palette of timbres from his 1837... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th August 2015
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2015, Editor's Choice
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Schumann: Cello Concerto & Chamber Works
Gautier Capuçon (cello), Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bernard Haitink
Capuçon provides the best of both worlds, creating a profound sense of a lone figure lost in his thoughts during the first two movements, before suggesting an emotional rejuvenation in the finale…Bernard... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Mozart, Schumann & Others: Clarinet Trios Michael Collins (clarinet), Isabelle van Keulen (viola, violin), Michael McHale (piano)
Wigmore Soloists
With peerless clarinet tone from Michael Collins, volatile viola phrasing from Isabelle van Keulen and brightfingered pianism from Michael McHale – three founding members of the recently formed... — More…
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Schumann: Violin Concerto
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), with Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
The great advantage of presenting Schumann on period instruments is brilliantly demonstrated here. Pablo Heras-Casado and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra's urgent account of the orchestral accompaniment... — More…
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd March 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Schumann: Complete Piano Trios
RecommendedLeif Ove Andsnes (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin) & Tanja Tetzlaff (cello)
there are so many praiseworthy things. The way these musicians approach Schumann's long spans of rhythmically repetitive writing shows such understanding and sensitivity that you forget there... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2011, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Chamber
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The sound itself is very natural and the piano is captured with admirable warmth, but the strings, and especially the violin, are just a shade too distant. — More…
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Robert Schumann: Complete Piano Trios, Piano Quartet & Piano Quintet
Trio Wanderer, Christophe Gaugue, Catherine Montier
The playing [in the Quintet and Quartet] has a delightful combination of zest and refinement, and love for the music’s poetry and delight in its unique inventiveness emanates from just about... — More…
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Musique de chambre
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New,
Schumann Collection - Trios and Quartet For Piano and Strings (live) Pierre Fouchenneret (violin), Théo Fouchenneret, Lise Berthaud, Victor Julien-Laferrière
2 CDs
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For the Love of Brahms
RecommendedJoshua Bell (violin) & Steven Isserlis (cello), Jeremy Denk (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Here’s an unconducted Double Concerto transformed into pure chamber music, in which two old friends spar amicably with the lithe support of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. There’s an... — More…
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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