SACD, Audite (label)
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The Quartetto di Cremona’s ongoing Beethoven cycle has particularly impressed me for its visceral excitement and pulsating energy…[they demonstrate] consummate mastery of soft mysterious playing,... —
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, 2018
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A long and fascinating journey comes to an end. These interpretations are powerful, vibrating, excitingly intense and inspiring from the very first to the very last note, providing decisive... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, 2018
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Romain Descharmes is a 29-year-old French pianist admirably attuned to the more subtle and elusive sides of Ravel's genius. In Gaspard Ondine's watery entreaty spurts and bubbles seductively... —
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Beethoven's most experimental in the medium. The playing, as ever, is blisteringly detailed and right in your face: you can feel the grain of the music and actually hear the fierce tension of... —
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Aadland has the advantage of truly first-class orchestral playing: the Cologne WDR Sinfonieorchester is a fine orchestra indeed, and its account of the Lyric Suite is notable for its excellence... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2013, Editor's Choice
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This is the most exciting new disc of string quartet playing that I have come across for a long time —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, Chamber Choice
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Brahms: Complete Piano Trios
Trio Testore: Franziska Pietsch (violin), Hans-Christian Schweiker (cello) & Hyun-Jung Kim-Schweiker (piano)
while this ensemble's collective sonority is often beautiful, there is a tendency to micro-manage the expressiveness of the music: this is highly nuanced playing and, while flexibility is certainly... —
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Special offer. Schubert: Mass No. 6 in E flat major, D950
Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Grace Hoffmann (alto), Albert Gassner (tenor), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Franz Crass (bass)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Rafael Kubelik
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The Quartetto di Cremona are equal to technical demands but often wary of tonal involvement...Internal balance of the ensemble is just and the performances overall are good. But music of such... —
