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[In Spem in alium] Parrott's sure touch tells in the form: the first entry is clear and confident...the first Mexican wave spreads inexorably, the arrival on the second tutti rings out like... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection Recommendation
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Building a Library, October 2016, First Choice
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Beethoven: String Quartets Op. 18, No. 1 & Op. 127
Beethoven/Artemis Quartet Volume 6
Artemis Quartet
they negotiate the tricky changes of tempo in the first movement of Op. 127 with great fluidity, provide an expressive yet poised view of the slow movement, and invest the Scherzo with suitably... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Véronique Gens : Tragediennes 2 (from Gluck to Berlioz)
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
…a wonderful odyssey through late Baroque to early Romantic French opera. Gens's agile voice is the perfect vehicle to cope with these emotional extremes, from the enchanting to the chilling.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2009, Editor's Choice
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Opera, October 2009, Recording of the Month
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Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610) & Selva morale e spirituale
Taverner Consort, Andrew Parrott
The first recording to engage fully with the scholarly debates regarding the form, purpose and pitch of the work, this 1984 version is a comprehensive and radical attempt to reconstruct a festal... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Best-kept Secrets
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A bracing, Baroque-pitched tutti - basses slapping, harpsichord punching, upper strings digging with their bow heels - starts the disc. Biondi's first solo strains at the leash...Il Proteo makes... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Baroque Instrumental
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Building a Library, November 2017, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, November 2012, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2014, First Choice
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Ravel - Sonatas & Trios
RecommendedRenaud Capuçon (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Frank Braley (piano)
Renaud Capuçon and Frank Braley get away from the rather uptight image we have of Ravel to compelling effect — More…
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Building a Library, September 2006, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2009, First Choice
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The emotional palette is broad: surging intensity is balanced emotionally by tenderness, delicate sensitivity, and…even by touches of humour. But the balance is architectural too. It may be... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Chamber
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Saccharine moments are applied by Capuçon in soupcons rather than ladlefuls. The orchestra – deftly directed by Stéphane Denève – remains largely restrained throughout, providing a cloak around... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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