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Special offer. Beethoven and Beyond
RecommendedMaría Dueñas (violin), Wiener Symphoniker, Manfred Honeck
Dueñas’s performance favours the Concerto’s abundant lyrical qualities. In the magical Larghetto she combines unaffected simplicity with rich sentiment while her account of the ‘Rondo’ is certainly... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th May 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Debut Solo Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Young Talent of the Year
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Spohr - Clarinet Concertos Nos. 3 & 4
RecommendedMichael Collins (clarinet)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Robin O’Neill
Michael Collins repeats the success of his disc of Nos 1 and 2 with elegantly phrased melodies, immaculate passagework and wondrously even trills. The Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Robin O'Neill... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2009, Highly Recommended
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New. The Romantic Room: Chamber Works by Spohr
Ye Wu, Cristian Suvaiala, Marko Milenković, Christine Penckwitt, Ute Klemm, Caroline Kunfalvi, Katja Püschel, Ulrich Witteler, Susanne Eychmüller, Linda Guo (cello), Maxime Gulikers, Christoph Zander, Tomasz Neugebauer, Mischa Pfeiffer, Theresa Schneider, Sara Etelävuori, Georgeta Iordache, Simon...
All four of these works are filled with marvellous music, and the WDR Chamber Players wring every last bit of character from them, elucidating detail without losing sight of each movement's... — More…
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Spohr - Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Robin O'Neill
…the first two of his four concertos for the clarinettist Johann Simon Hermstedt… well worth hearing: they’re imaginatively constructed and full of graceful melody, as well as being true virtuoso... — More…
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Shelley plays this music with consummate artistry, making light of its technical difficulties and investing it with all the Romantic charm and ardour it needs. It's captured in excellent quality... — More…
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The performances, like the pieces themselves, are a shade laid-back, but their lack of urgency never seriously detracts from the attractive qualities of this music. — More…
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These are clear, beautifully judged performances, and Shelley and his orchestra plead every case for these works, from the portentous opening Adagio of the Eighth Symphony, to its fleet-footed... — More…
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Special offer. Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Spohr: Violin Concerto No. 8
RecommendedHilary Hahn (violin)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Eiji Oue
There have been a number of fine accounts of Paganini's First Concerto down the years… Hilary Hahn plays the score complete and with such effortless command that the listener might be fooled... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2009, Highly Recommended
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The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts
RecommendedVirginia Majewski (viola), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello), Gabor Rejto (cello), Jascha Heifetz (violin), William Primrose (viola), Israel Baker (violin), Arnold Belnick (violin), Joseph Stepansky (violin), Paul Rosenthal (violin), Allan Harshman (viola), Laurence Lesser (cello), Pierre Amoyal (violin),...
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Grammy Awards, 5th Awards (1962), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Building A Library, October 2021, Also Recommended
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