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November 15 2017

Gramophone (UK): Mozart Serenades

An hour spent with Mozart in light-music mode is always an hour well spent, and here we have not one but two hours of entertainment and pleasure. The Haffner Serenade appears to have been written as a Brautmusik (‘bride music’), commissioned by its namesake for the wedding of his sister. What we hear actually starts with the D major March, K249...

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November 14 2017

Music Web International: Mozart & Schoeck, Roberto Gonzalez-Monjas

On this Claves album, featuring a Serenade each from Mozart and Schoeck, the press information highlights how both composers were only twenty years old at the time of composition and how one hundred and thirty years separates the two works. This fascinating programme is played by the Musikkollegium Winterthur, a forty or so strong ensemble here...

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November 09 2017

La Liberté: Chopin Recital, Finghin Collins

Il a étudié à Genève, a gagné le Concours Clara Haskil. Finghin Collins est aussi connu du public fribourgeois pour s’être plusieurs fois produit en récital et engagé aux côtés de l’Orchestre des jeunes. Après deux sublimes disques Schumann, le pianiste irlandais reste fidèle au label suisse Claves pour graver un stimulant et émouvant récital C...

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November 08 2017

Badisches Tagblatt: Mahlers Vierte im Kleinformat, Graziella Contratto & Rachel Harnisch

Bereits vier Sinfonien von Gustav Mahler hat der Freiburger Dirigent und Pianist Klaus Simon für Kammerensemble orchestriert. Nun hat das formidable Mythen Ensemble Orchestral eine fantastische Einspielung der Vierten vorgelegt, die Mahlers Musik wie eine Essenz eindampft. Im ersten Satz erinnert das Ensemble mit seinen süsslichen Streichern an...

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November 08 2017

Kulturtipp: Leuchtende Klanggemälde, Orazio Sciortino

Im Begrif Kammermusik schwingen leise auch die Attribute klassisch und kanonisch mit. Wie schön also, die Erstaufnahmen von Kompositionen zu hören, die vor kurzem erst entstanden sind. Das Basler Pianotrio Ambra und das Streichensemble New Wave aus Zürich spielen Kammermusik von Orazio Sciortino, die klangliche Räumlichkeiten neu defnieren. Der...

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November 06 2017

CD Hotlist: Charles du Plessis Trio, Baroqueswing Vol. II

Baroque music, particularly the music of J.S. Bach, has proved irresistible to jazz musicians for decades now. I think it’s the combination of harmonic richness and rhythmic regularity: Bach’s countrapuntal lines are so much fun to play in straight rhythm that the temptation to makes those lines swing can just be kind of overpowering. This Sout...

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October 24 2017

Gramophone (UK): Stanford Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2, Finghin Collins

Stanford’s answer to the great Russian concerto It is not perhaps surprising that the key, opening flourishes and other episodes in this splendid concerto recall Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2. Stanford had conducted its British premiere, with the composer as soloist, the year before he completed his own. If the second and third movements do...

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October 11 2017

CD Hotlist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Francis Poulenc, Works for Violin & Piano

Here’s an interesting pairing: the enfant terrible of the high classical period alongside another puckish rebel, the playful (and notably untrained) mid-20th-century French composer Francis Poulenc. Although both were known for their sense of humor, stylistically this program makes no sense; the transition from Mozart’s E minor sonata to Poulen...

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October 09 2017

Audiophile Audition: Brahms - String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major; String Sextet No. 2 in G Major

Recorded 9-11 February 2014, these realizations of the two Brahms string sextets share with us a profound and often melancholy – and contrapuntal – intimacy. The Quatuor Sine Nomine opens with the 1865 G Major Sextet, composed in the spirit of “atonement” for a failed engagement between Brahms and Agathe von Siebold, daughter of a university p...

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September 22 2017

Musica: 5 Stelle for the last album of Benjamin Righetti

« Perché registrare un disco di organo nel 2016 ? Per arricchirsi, per guadagnare denaro? Assolutamente no. Per farsi ascoltare, per esistere nel nostro mondo musicale? Potrebbe essere. Per ascoltarsi, per far germogliare la cultura del proprio giardino interiore? Certamente. » Questa la speculazione con cui Benjamin Righetti apre le note del l...

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Gramophone (UK): Mozart Serenades

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Music Web International: Mozart & Schoeck, Roberto Gonzalez-Monjas

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La Liberté: Chopin Recital, Finghin Collins

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Badisches Tagblatt: Mahlers Vierte im Kleinformat, Graziella Contratto & Rachel Harnisch

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Kulturtipp: Leuchtende Klanggemälde, Orazio Sciortino

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CD Hotlist: Charles du Plessis Trio, Baroqueswing Vol. II

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CD Hotlist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Francis Poulenc, Works for Violin & Piano

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Musica: 5 Stelle for the last album of Benjamin Righetti

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