CD, Dohnányi (composer)
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Dohnányi: Piano Quintets & String Quartet No. 2
RecommendedMarc-André Hamelin (piano)
Takács Quartet
The Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin capture the freshness and vitality of this youthful work to perfection, its outer movements and Scherzo projected here with all the necessary exhilaration... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Chamber Choice
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Diapason d’Or, February 2020, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Chamber
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RecommendedMusic for Violin & Piano by Bartók, Poulenc & Ravel
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Polina Leschenko (piano)
Playing of such consummate ease combined with involvement and attention to detail...Simply, this is one of the finest, most musically sensitive recordings to have come my way for some time,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th February 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Chamber
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Childhood memories are summoned, plus people and places…Indeed, there’s so much playfulness and charm here that the listener might well pant for some extra ballast from meatier things. It comes... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
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New. Unpublished: Albert Spalding and Ernst von Dohnányi
Albert Spaldin (violin), Ernst von Dohnányi (piano), Anthony Kooiker (piano)
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The Nash Ensemble’s high voltage interpretation [of the Third Quartet] serves the music well, having tremendous physical impact and bringing an unusual, urgent intensity… The Nash Ensemble triumphantly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Ernst von Dohnányi: Concertos - Variations On A Nursery Song
Sofja Gulbadamova (piano), Silke Aichhorn (harp), Andrei Ioniţă (cello), Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rehinland-Pfalz, Modestas Pitrenas
In all three concertos the solo playing is magnificent. Modestas Pitrenas and the orchestra accompany with enthusiasm, but ensemble is sometimes uncertain and the sound in some louder tuttis... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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All in all, this is an intelligently devised, brilliantly executed and warmly recorded disc, raising hopes that the Notos Quarttett can come up trumps again with further worthwhile discoveries. — More…
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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The most substantial item...is undoubtedly the suite Ruralia Hungarica...It's an enormously attractive work, by turns exhilarating...and rhapsodic...Roscoe relishes these contrasts in mood with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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The music is in competent hands. Pawlik is a fine pianist with a comprehensive technique... Excellent recorded sound. — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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