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Overall, what leaps out is the sheer quality, consistency and stylishness of Janine Jansen’s playing. She conjures up the mood of each piece with seemingly effortless and flawless technique...Pappano... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th September 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Mythes is all heightened sensuality and warmth, its heady atmosphere evoked through playing of extraordinary colour, detail and dexterity. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Szymanowski: Król Roger & Symphony No. 4
RecommendedThomas Hampson, Elzbieta Szmytka, Ryszard Minkiewicz, Philip Langridge, Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle
King Roger is a ravishingly beautiful opera, but a very fragile one. With a shrill soprano or a less than ideally cast tenor it would be fatally flawed. Minkiewicz's Dionysiac Shepherd betrays... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Opera
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Szymanowski: Concertos, Orchestral & Choral Works
RecommendedIwona Sobotka, Timothy Robinson, Katarina Karnéus, Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Elzbieta Szmytka, Jadwiga Rappé, Philip Langridge & Thomas Hampson, Florence Quivar, Jon Garrison & John Connell
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, with City of Birmingham...
Both these differing works [Song of the Night and Stabat Mater] are sensitively performed, giving the listener an excellent insight into the contrasting aspects of this composer's work. Rattle's... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Engineering
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Mariusz Kwiecien: Slavic Heroes
RecommendedMariusz Kwiecien (baritone)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz
[His signature roles] suggest a certain dashing Italianate quality that's refelcted in his voice: lighter, less rich and chocolatey than some Slavic rivals, for example Dmitri Hvorostovsky.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th January 2012
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Opera, February 2012, Recording of the Month
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Szymanowski: Works for violin and piano Duo Brüggen-Plank: Marie Radauer-Plank (violin) & Henrike Brüggen (piano)
Radauer-Plank and Brüggen are excellent…their relative restraint pays dividends in music that harbours limitless potential for subtle shading. — More…
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Johanna Martzy, Vol. 3
Johanna Martzy (violin), Adolph Hallis (piano), István Hajdu (piano)
Netherlands Radio Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Willem van Otterloo, André Cluytens, Hans Müller-Kray, George Szell
The rediscovery of gifted Hungarian Martzy (1924-79) continues apace with this selection of live broadcasts and concerts including sparkling Mozart and a stunning Bartok Rhapsody. — More…
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Pike’s exceptional sensitivity to tonal inflection and temporal flexibility works wonders in Szymanowski’s Mythes…She invests [the Karłowicz] with such open-air freshness and gentle affection... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, Chamber Choice
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Great Singers & Musicians in Copenhagen 1931-1939
Historical ‘live’ recordings from the archive of Danish broadcasting
Denmarks Radio Symphony Orchestra
The sound quality throughout the set is often rather better than you might expect, given the clandestine nature of the enterprise and the age of the originals...What a wonderful privilege, being... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2010, Re-issue of the Month
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