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Szymanowski: Violin Concertos 1 and 2 & Myths Op. 30
Baiba Skride (violin), Lauma Skride (piano)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
The First Concerto's opening here is vigorous and cleanly etched, with detailed recording...Skride's performance...is full of tonal variety, and fearless in the often vertiginous tessitura.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
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Building a Library, March 2016, Also Recommended
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Hindemith: Clarinet Concerto, Clarinet Quartet & Clarinet Sonata
Sharon Kam (clarinet), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Cohen, Enrico Pace (piano)
The couplings are, to my mind, even finer than the concerto…I do not know of a stronger rival for the Quartet currently available. — More…
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Chamber Music
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Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621 Werner Hollweg (Tito), Carol Neblett (Vitellia), Catherine Malfitano (Servilia), Tatiana Troyanos (Sesto), Anne Howells (Annio), Kurt Rydl (Publio)
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper & Wiener Philharmoniker, James Levine
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017, Nouveauté
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Gre Brouwenstijn (soprano), Ira Malaniuk (alto), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) & Ludwig Weber (bass)
Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wilhelm Furtwängler
Orfeo offers the best sound yet for this performance, even though the vocal soloists remain painfully spotlit. Furtwängler conducts with spacious grandeur and elemental drive. — More…
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Grieg’s Second Sonata sounds gorgeously, openly melancholic. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, Chamber Choice
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Skride’s championship of a fellow Latvian [Eduard Erdmann] is welcome, but she is unpartisan and brings the same affection and sense of authority to his music as the rest of the programme. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Schumann: Dichterliebe & Liederkreis opp. 24 & 39
RecommendedPeter Schreier (tenor), András Schiff (piano)
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Building a Library, June 2010, Featured
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In only a few of the 25 separate titles here does the Israeli pianist Amir Katz (b.1973) fall short of the very best...On the second disc are the 12 Transcendental Studies, deftly executed with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2020, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 & Missa solemnis (Live)
Helen Donath (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano), Horst Rüdiger Laubenthal (tenor), Hans Sotin (bass), Peter Schreier (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelík
Immediately establishes itself among the front-runners for a stereo Ninth which, although analogue, sounds wholly excellent…but what makes this double-pack unmissable is Kubelik’s inspired 1977... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2019, Reissue/Archive of the Month
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