SACD, Beethoven (composer)
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the highly accomplished Chiaroscuro promote an ‘Ibragimovian’ view of Beethoven that is above all dynamic, intelligent, agile and argumentative, with much vividly attenuated phrasing added to... — More…
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Record Review, Records of the Year 2021
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Building A Library, May 2022, Also Recommended
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Beethoven: Sonatas For Violin and Piano Op. 12 No.1, Op. 24 & Op. 96
RecommendedRachel Podger (violin), Christopher Glynn
Listening to Rachel Podger (on the ‘Mauri’ Strad) and Christopher Glynn (on an 1840 Erard) is like experiencing the music in the clear light of day for the first time. Gone are those texturally... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th March 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, Chamber Choice
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This is a delight: sprightly, well-articulated playing which bounds with vitality. The Archduke starts in an almost improvisatory spirit...The energy of the performance is driven by the pianist... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas Vol. 3 Sonatas 8-10
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Martin Helmchen (piano)
Frank Peter Zimmermann and Martin Helmchen are an outstanding team, whose latest release brings their three-disc survey to an uplifting conclusion...Finest of all is the reading of the elusive... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Chamber Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Chamber Music
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whether gut strings and period bows are generally your bag or not, you need to add this to your listening pile forthwith. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Spruce, cleansounding, finely articulated with sparing use of vibrato – this is definitely modern Beethoven. It’s hard to imagine anything less like the plush, expressively orotund Amadeus Quartet... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas Sonatas 1 - 4
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Martin Helmchen (piano)
How elegantly unforced these works come over today. Zimmermann’s sound is light, flexible, and finely shaded, with Martin Helmchen delivering effortless virtuosity. The opening of the First... — More…
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Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 'Gran Partita' Nicoline Alt (oboe), Olivier Patey (clarinet), Calogero Palermo (clarinet), Hein Wiedijk (basset horn), Annemiek de Bruin (basset horn), Gustavo Núñez (bassoon), Helma van den Brink (bassoon), Laurens Woudenberg (horn), Fons Verspaandonk (horn), José Luis Sogorb Jover (horn), Jaap van der Vliet (horn),...
Ogrintchouk, directing members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from the oboe, delivers a compelling performance that almost rivals the benchmark recording from the Berlin Philharmonic Wind... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, Editor's Choice
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The Wigmore Soloists’ Beethoven yields to none in polish, buoyancy and cantabile eloquence, while the Berwald makes for a thoroughly agreeable digestif. — More…
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It can easily be tempting for performers to emphasise the lyrical character of the first movement of the Spring Sonata at the expense of its more dramatic side. That’s not a charge which can... — More…
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