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Mozart: The Complete String Quintets
RecommendedArpad Gérecz (violin) & Max Lesueur (viola)
Grumiaux Trio
Of the six works Mozart wrote for string quintet, that in B flat major, K174, is an early composition, written at the age of 17. It's a well-made, enjoyable work, but not a great deal more than... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2005, First Choice
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Building a Library, February 2013, First Choice
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Mozart: Complete Quintets Vol. 2
RecommendedArthur Grumiaux (violin), Arpad Gérecz, Georges Janzer (viola), Max Lesueur (viola), Eva Czako (cello), Quartetto Italiano, Bruno Hoffman (glass harmonica), Aurèle Nicolet, Heinz Holliger (oboe), Karl Schouten (viola), Jean Decroos (cello), Jack Brymer (clarinet), Allegri Quartet
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Building a Library, February 2005, First Choice
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This is a remarkable and, indeed, invaluable box, which is unlikely to be challenged, let alone surpassed. Nowadays, it is not often possible to hail one set of records as a 'classic' of the... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2009, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Recording of the Year
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, March 2021, Also Recommended
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Gergiev's performances here are never less than compelling and - given their live origin - are remarkable for the clarity of textures and the always purposefully shaped phrasing of even minor... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2011, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2006, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Orchestral
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Spanish Guitar Favourites
RecommendedWorks by Boccherini, Falla, Romero, Sor and Torroba
Los Romeros
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Beethoven - Complete Works for Piano & Cello
RecommendedAdrian Brendel (cello) & Alfred Brendel (piano)
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Building a Library, March 2005, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2005, Editor's Choice
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Tchaikovsky & Miaskovsky: Violin Concertos
RecommendedVadim Repin (violin)
Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
It's the Myaskovsky that really makes this disc a 'must-have'. His Violin Concerto was premiered by David Oistrakh in Leningrad in 1939. As with Tchaikovsky's Concerto, the opening tutti plays... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2003, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Brendel believes Schubert is 'mysteriously episodic', but doesn’t play him that way. Architecture is re-created by scanning ahead… and by binding movements together through tempi that relate... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2007, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, December 2017, Also Recommended
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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