CD, Sciarrino (composer)
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[La valse] sounds as if at least six hands are at work. This is a titanic, gripping account of this tumultuous piece, combining impact with warmth and projecting with absolute clarity the collapse... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2025, Instrumental Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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This is a fresh, original interpretation, built from the ground up with humility, love and integrity, borne of a richly cultivated musical imagination and a technique so complete that its exercise... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2025, Editor's Choice
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The title 'Caprices' belies the serious rapport which Arditti nurtured over decades with Carter, Nunes, Boulez and Sciarrino…The works, too, are hardly whimsical but represent a quarter-century... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Sciarrino - Storie di altre storie
Sonia Turchetta (voice], Teodoro Anzellotti (accordion)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Kazushi Ono, Lucas Vis
Il gionale della necropoli (2000) for accordion and orchestra is fully matured Sciarrino… The WDR SO play this testing music precisely and tell its story well… —
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection Recommendation
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Special offer. Dionysus & Apollo: Music for Flute and Harp
Claudio Ortensi (flute), Anna Pasetti (harp)
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Bieri’s control and expressivity in Sciarrino’s haunting solo Let Me Die Before I Wake is astonishing. He’s a soulful communicator in Brahms’s elegiac Quintet, too. Meta4 provide sumptuous support. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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This is a deeply thought-through, bewitchingly rendered succession of interpretations…This is also one of those rare albums truly conceived as a whole listen from start to finish…Whatever Silverstein... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Newcomer
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Quartetto Prometeo project a very composer-specific sound world; vibrato-less rustling, clean-cut lines, a deadpan/aloof tone that renews expressivity. Sciarrino wrote his Eighth Quartet for... —
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