SACD, Brahms (composer)
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First, you can take his peerless technical ability for granted. Next, he is blessed with a remarkable personal sound: it has the quality of a dark, warm roar from deep within the instrument,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2025, Recording of the Month
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Panache is Kantorow’s strength throughout the program, but it is combined with probing emotional maturity, which is rare. I doubt that any prediction will come true for him other than the prediction... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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Brahms: Cello Sonatas & Schumann: Fünf Stücke im Volkston
Christian Poltéra (cello), Ronald Brautigam (piano)
The duo fill their phrasing, rhythm and sense of momentum with bracing fresh air, bringing maximum exhilaration to a work that too often can seem to lack it. Poltéra’s tone leaps and glows –... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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this celebration of song is infused with heartfelt joy. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Song
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RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (mezzo), Sir Simon Rattle (piano), Rahel Rilling (violin), Wolfram Brandl (violin), Yulia Deyneka (viola), David Adorjan (cello), Andrew Marriner (clarinet)
There is some lovely singing from Kožená, whose fawn-tinted mezzo retains its attractive quality from her earliest discs…She sings the two Brahms collections well, especially the Ophelia Songs,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th September 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
RecommendedMartin Fröst (clarinet), with Janine Jansen (violin), Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), with Roland Pöntinen (piano), with Torleif Thedéen (cello) & Roland Pöntinen (piano)
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Fröst revels in the deep-plush velvet of his chalumeau regions - and, indeed, sustains this timbre throughout the instrument's register...the ensemble creates cutting-edge rhythmic urgency,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Chamber
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Brahms: Symphony No.4 & MacMillan: Larghetto for Orchestra
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
In this outstanding performance of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, Manfred Honeck draws a wonderfully rich, almost Central European string sound from the Pittsburgh Symphony, matched by equally mellifluous... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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these are readings cast unapologetically in the Teutonic mould. Chamber orchestral performances under Charles Mackerras or Robin Ticciati, not to mention John Eliot Gardiner's contextualising... — More…
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Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Miku Yasukawa, Jochen Kupfer, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
The choir are at the heart of the work in this recording, their well-drilled German consonants pinging percussively off the walls of Tokyo’s Opera City Concert Hall. — More…
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Brahms - Clarinet Sonatas & Trio
Martin Fröst (clarinet), Roland Pöntinen (piano), Torleif Thedéen (cello)
…the young Swede Martin Fröst plays with elegant phrasing and beautiful, even produced tone… In the two sonatas, he's perfectly matched by his compatriot Roland Pöntinen in performances which... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2006, Editor's Choice
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