SACD, Audite (label)
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The Quartetto di Cremona’s ongoing Beethoven cycle has particularly impressed me for its visceral excitement and pulsating energy…[they demonstrate] consummate mastery of soft mysterious playing,... — More…
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, 2018
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Romain Descharmes is a 29-year-old French pianist admirably attuned to the more subtle and elusive sides of Ravel's genius. In Gaspard Ondine's watery entreaty spurts and bubbles seductively... — More…
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Aadland has the advantage of truly first-class orchestral playing: the Cologne WDR Sinfonieorchester is a fine orchestra indeed, and its account of the Lyric Suite is notable for its excellence... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2013, Editor's Choice
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This is the most exciting new disc of string quartet playing that I have come across for a long time — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, Chamber Choice
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A long and fascinating journey comes to an end. These interpretations are powerful, vibrating, excitingly intense and inspiring from the very first to the very last note, providing decisive... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, 2018
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Temporal Variations
Music for Oboe and Piano between 1935 and 1941
Birgit Schmieder (oboe, cor anglais) & Akiko Yamashita (piano)
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The Quartetto di Cremona are equal to technical demands but often wary of tonal involvement...Internal balance of the ensemble is just and the performances overall are good. But music of such... — More…
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Paradisi Gloria
Sacred music by Emperor Leopold I
Ulrike Hofbauer, Lisandro Abadie, Alex Potter, Hans-Jörg Mammel, Monika Mauch
Emperor Leopold I
Cappella Murensis, Les Cornets Noirs
A four-part Stabat mater in B minor (1678) is an episodic setting that offers plangent consummate skill by the fine company of soloists…the assorted instrumentalists and the choir demonstrate... — More…
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Eduard Franck - Piano Trios
Christiane Edinger (violin), Lluis Claret (cello) & Klaus Hellwig (piano)
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She begins with the Wanderer Fantasy, revelling in the colouristic possibilites of its slow section, and proves more than equal to the work's considerable and frequently unpianistic technical... — More…
