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Laurence Dreyfus (himself something of a Renaissance man), combines rigorous intellect with sensitive musicianship...Ensemble and intonation are flawless; keen rhythms and feather-light bowing... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th June 2011
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Early Music
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ, Op. 25
RecommendedVéronique Gens (Marie), Alastair Miles (Herod/Ishmaelite Father), Yann Beuron (Narrator), Stephan Loges (Joseph)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Robin Ticciati
Beuron, still probably France's finest lyric tenor, a compelling Recitant with open, ardent tones and warm delivery...Miles is a splendidly anguished but restrained Herod and benign Ishmaelite,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2013
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Pamela Thorby, a regular member of the Palladian Ensemble, demonstrates versatility and virtuosity beyond question and is imaginatively accompanied by Richard Egarr, who also contributes a sparkling... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2004, Editor's Choice
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It's an illuminating, flawlessly performed survey of two halves: the first, rich with the vibrant freshness of his early process work, and the second no less driven or clear, but arguably less... — More…
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Although Kuniko calibrates balances, dynamics, nuances and sonorities with her expected precision, she also creates a genuine sense of repartee between the parts, as if the six original percussionists... — More…
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[Pizarro] brings spaciousness and a fine balancing of inner parts, in chords and counterpoint alike, alongside a freedom and energy very much his own...his formidable technique provides the... — More…
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by skilfully modulating their tone between the smooth and the raucous, the two clarinettists here contrive to minimise the absence of oboe timbre in what proves a lively and nicely nuanced reading...these... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2015, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Katherine Bryan plays Flute Concertos by Christopher Rouse and Jacques Ibert
Katherine Bryan (flute)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jac van Steen
Bryan certainly has complete mastery of the [Rouse's] technical and expressive demands, as she does in Ibert's Concerto of 1933...Her playing of Debussy's Syrinx, the ne plus ultra of the solo... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2013, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass
Mary Wilson (soprano), Abigail Fischer (mezzo-soprano), Keith Jameson (tenor) & Kevin Deas (bass-baritone)
Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
this new account opens with impact, even if the florid upper strings occasionally have to struggle against the implacable tirades of chorus, trumpets and drums. And the quartet of soloists led... — More…
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Trevor Pinnock knows a thing or two about Mozart and imparts to his youthful charges from the Royal Academy of Music all his enthusiasm for the Salzburger’s greatest serenade. There’s no other... — More…
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