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As a duo they're breathtaking, with Tetzlaff soaring sweetly over Bartok's gritty piano part in the Sonata No. 1, with his soft-grained sound and almost breathy phrasing bringing a vocal quality... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2004, Editor's Choice
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Le Boeuf sur le toit
French works for violin and orchestra
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Daniel Harding
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2002, Editor's Choice
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The C minor Quartet requires playing of the utmost passion if its complex textures are not to sound clogged, and this is what it receives here, though the delicacy and affection the players... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2010, First Choice
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Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D667 'The Trout', etc.
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Gérard Caussé (viola), Aloïs Posch (double bass) & Frank Braley (piano)
A memorable account of the Trout Quintet. This group may not project the warmth and bonhomie of the famous Curzon/Boskovsky recording, nor does it have the searching quality of the performance... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2005, Editor's Choice
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[the divertmenti are] normally done with full orchestral forces, but they work perfectly well as string quartets - especially when performed as immaculately as here, with everything honed to... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2011, Editor's Choice
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While it's handy to have Schubert's three major violin-and-piano pieces on one well-recorded disc, Capuçon's sometimes over-intense vibrato and both players' efficient but unsmiling approach... — More…
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…I enjoyed the A major, and was even more enthused by the D minor. …Capuçon and Nicholas Angelich are absolutely inside the music, completely responsive to the play of expressive light and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2005, Editor's Choice
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Eternal Stories: Quatuor Ebène & Michel Portal
Michel Portal (clarinet - bandonéon), Xavier Tribolet (keyboard) & Richard Hery (drum)
Quatuor Ebène
With a career that's encompassed jazz, film scores and Stockhausen, the veteran saxophonist and clarinettist Michel Portal defies categorisation, and this collaboration with the similarly eclectic... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2017
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Fervent and passionate, [the Strohl] proves tremendously listenable; and here Moreau and Kadouch give it all they’ve got…[In the Franck] they seem at times too get up…The Poulenc, however, flowers... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2018, Editor's Choice
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Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 1-3
RecommendedRenaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Gérard Caussé & Nicholas Angelich
What freshness and spontaneity! Four first-rank players give their all to some of Brahms's most passionate music, and create the precious effect of discovering that music for the first time. — More…
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Building a Library, October 2014, First Choice
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