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Special offer. Jean-Marie Leclair: Violin Sonatas, Book 3; Op.5, Nos. 5-8
Adrian Butterfield, Sarah McMahon, Silas Wollston
The continuo playing is reliable and tasteful, and Butterfield’s sound has an attractive sweetness in all registers that is easy on the ears. He plays with relaxed confidence, and the players... — More…
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Special offer. Jean-Marie Leclair: Violin Sonatas, Book 3 (op. 5, Nos. 9-12)
Adrian Butterfield, Sarah McMahon, Silas Wollston, Clare Salaman
As with the other volumes, the performance by violinist Adrian Butterfield is both technically secure and finely nuanced. He brings out Leclair’s style with a good sense of phrasing, and one... — More…
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Special offer. Leclair - Violin Sonatas Volume 2
Book 1, Nos. 5-8
Adrian Butterfield (Baroque Violin), Alison McGillivray (Viola da Gamba) & Laurence Cummings (Harpsichord)
Leclair's Corelli-haunted First Book of Sonatas might have been overshadowed by later volumes, but there's a deal of attractive music to savour. The ensemble interplay is exemplary and the gamba... — More…
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Special offer. Leclair - Violin Sonatas Volume 3
Book 1 Nos. 9-12
Adrian Butterfield (baroque violin), Alison McGillivray (viola da gamba) & Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)
…this disc is shaped by exquisite phrasing and studded with lovely Italianate ornamentation and French enflés. The tempi are by turns graceful and exuberant. …Butterfield plays with assurance... — More…
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Special offer. Jean-Marie Leclair: Violin Sonatas, Book 3 - Op. 5, Nos. 1-4
Adrian Butterfield (violin), Sarah Mcmahon (cello), Silas Wollston (harpsichord)
Violinist Adrian Butterfield is fully adept at bringing out the nuances of Leclair’s music. He performs on a period instrument, but his tone is clear and the technical virtuosity is finely delineated.... — More…
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Special offer. Leclair - Violin Sonatas Volume 1
Book 1 Nos. 1–4
Adrian Butterfield (baroque violin), Alison McGillivray (viola da gamba) & Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)
…Leclair… produced music that's finely crafted, charmingly tuneful and undeniably spirited. Adrian Butterfield is a worthy champion. The sweetness of his tone, aptness of his tempi and the... — More…
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Special offer. Leclair: Violin Sonatas, Book 2 Nos. 1–5 and 8
Adrian Butterfield (baroque violin), Jonathan Manson (viola da gamba) & Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)
Butterfield and his colleagues are sympathetic interpreters, fully conversant with the intimate yet intricate yet intricate French Baroque manner. Most successful are the elegiac slow movements,... — More…
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Special offer. Leclair: Violin Sonatas, Book 2 Nos. 6–7 and 9–12
Adrian Butterfield (Baroque violin), Jonathan Manson (viola da gamba) & Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)
Butterfield is pleasingly receptive to the French ‘beau chant’, bringing expressive warmth and affective gestures to slow movements...It is to be hoped that Butterfield and his excellent continuo... — More…
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Special offer. Leclair - Complete Flute Chamber Music
Fenwick Smith (flute), John Gibbons (harpsichord), Laura Blustein (cello), Laura Jeppesen (viola da Gamba) & Christopher Krueger (flute)
Modern pitch and Fenwick's tone suggest a modern flute, but he's no less stylish for all that. Eight solo sonatas and two trios from the founder of the French violin school creating distinctive,... — More…
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Special offer. Sarasate - Music for Violin and Piano Volume 4
Transcriptions and arrangements
Tianwa Yang (violin) & Markus Hadulla (piano)
We encounter Sarasate’s spontaneity and coalescence of tenacity and timidity in these distinctly Spanish-sounding transcriptions and arrangements...Yang conveys Chopin’s silky Nocturne No. 2... — More…
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