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His warmth and sincerity combine with a superbly assured and powerful technique to create one of the finest performances [of the F minor Sonata] on record...His Handel Variations, too, are subtly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, Editor's Choice
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Plowright’s Brahms could easily be described as rugged: thunderclouds often loom and there are few moments of brighter outlook along the way…dark Brahms, then, but Plowright’s powerful, uncompromising... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2017, Editor's Choice
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Classical Trombone Concertos
Christian Lindberg (trombone)
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti
sensational … one of those recordings which make criticism a glorious irrelevance. — More…
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Maxim Rysanov plays Schubert, Tchaikovsky & Bruch
RecommendedMaxim Rysanov (viola)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Muhai Tang
Rysanov makes the best possible case for hearing this version [of the Arpeggione], delivering a wonderfully poetic account of the solo part with subtle and sensitive accompaniment from the Swedish... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th August 2011
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Ortiz has recorded it before but her new account is splendid, fresh and wistful, born of long experience. — More…
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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C P E Bach - Complete Keyboard Concertos, Volume 6
Miklós Spányi (tangent piano)
Concerto Armonico, Péter Szüts
On this recording Miklós Spányi has exchanged his previous harpsichord or fortepiano for a tangent piano: it's like a fortepiano but has the strings struck vertically by tangents (as in the... — More…
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Franck: Trois Pieces & Trois Chorals
1880 Cavaillé-Coll organ, Cathédrale Saint-Croix, Orléans
Pétur Sakari (organ)
Sakari lays out the thematic material of Franck’s ‘Fantaisie’ with a sense of both the music’s pensive quality and its sweep. He manages to make this first of the composer’s Trois Pièces, written... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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The Lahti orchestra bring total dedication to these great scores, and Osmo Vänskä is a Sibelian of substance. With this account of the Sixth and Seventh he brings his survey to a triumphant... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2010, First Choice
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 48
Hana Blažíková (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Satoshi Mizukoshi (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
striking testimony to fine SACD engineering as well as the performers: this clarity and springiness is a vital component...the opening of BWV120, a tight-rope of alto demi-semi-quavers on which... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 19
Yokari Nonoshita (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Makoto Sakurada (tenor), Stephan Macloed (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
The first work on this CD is a little-known gem, No 86, Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch ('Verily, I say unto you'). Succinct and imploring, the listener follows the doctrinal and attentive... — More…
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