Download, Tartini (composer)
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Special offer. Grandissima Gravita
RecommendedMusic by Pisenel, Tartini, Veracini & Vivaldi
Rachel Podger (violin)
Brecon Baroque
Her playing is intoxicated and intoxicating in equal measure, buoyed up by the wonderful improvisatory camaraderie of a continuo battery…Podger, inevitably, is the star, but ultimately the disc’s... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Sparks (and rosin) really do fly on this high-octane album of violin concertos by what Siranossian calls the 'four musketeers' of Venice - Veracini, Locatelli, Tartini and Vivaldi. It's perhaps... — More…
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Record Review, 27th May 2023, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto Recording of the Year
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The Italian Job
RecommendedBaroque Instrumental Music from the Italian States
Gail Hennessy, Rachel Chaplin (oboes) & Peter Whelan (bassoon)
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
The highlight of the disc for me is Chandler’s performance of a seldom-played E major Violin Concerto by Tartini: he explores fully the rich poetic content of its slow movement while projecting... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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the most striking aspects of Podger’s playing throughout this recital (compared to most 20th-century ‘golden-agers’), is her enhanced range of tone and articulation, her vastly more flexible... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Recording of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Instrumental
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Instrumental
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Special offer. Guardian Angel: Rachel Podger
RecommendedMusic by Bach, Matteis, Tartini, Pisendel, Biber
Rachel Podger (violin)
Characteristically unforced and natural, the playing manages to sound endlessly considered yet spontaneous. There's a sureness to the placing of every note, whether poised or bristling with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Instrumental Award Winner
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If I had to characterise Chouchane Siranossian [in terms of the disc’s title], I would plump for angelic for the simple beauty of her playing, which belies the toughness of the music by being... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Pyrotechnia: Fire & Fury from 18th-Century Italy
RecommendedBojan Čičić (violin)
The Illyria Consort
Čičić scarcely needs to prove his credentials through the medium of the virtuosic solo. The recording, instead, traces the impact of the capriccio-cadenza on the concerto form, and its evolution... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th October 2021
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Joshua Bell plays Vivaldi's Four Seasons
RecommendedJoshua Bell (violin and conductor) & John Constable (harpsichord continuo)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
If you like your Baroque music with a Romantic gloss, this will be for you. — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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There’s a wonderfully spontaneous, almost rough-and-ready quality to these performances: resin flies and rhythms swing in the stomping gigas, whilst the mesmerising siciliana of the first concerto... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2020
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In contrast to the concert-hall projection of Perlman, Liebeck plays these timeless miniatures with a salonesque intimacy and glowing cantabile to rival even the composer. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st March 2014
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