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June 11 2018

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June 11 2018

Violonist.com: Korngold & Mozart: Violin Concertos

"Re-emerging from a seven-month pause from concertizing to focus her attention on meditative practices and the merging of meditation and music, Caroline is reopening the 2018 season with the release of her third album on Claves Records." Caroline has studied with Christian Tetzlaff, Donald Weilerstein, Paul Kantor, Joel Smirnoff and Julia Kurt...


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November 15 2017

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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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October 16 2017

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October 16 2017

AUSTA Stringendo: Esther Hoppe & Alasdair Beatson, Mozart & Poulenc

Very imaginative programming pairs Mozart and Poulenc. The three Mozart sonatas (K.301, K.304 and K.378) include the E minor Sonata, K.304 (1778); the only violin sonata that Mozart wrote in a minor key. Esther Hoppe has a bright and exquisite tone with an endless variety of colours and a vast range of dynamics. Alasdair Beatson is Hoppe’s arti...


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April 25 2017

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April 25 2017

ResMusica: Mozart et Poulenc réunis par des sonates pour violon et piano

À emporter, CD, Musique de chambre et récital Francis Poulenc comptait Mozart parmi ses compositeurs préférés. Son unique Sonate pour violon et piano côtoie dans cet enregistrement trois sonates pour le même effectif du compositeur autrichien. La mort du poète espagnol Federico García Lorca, assassiné par les nationalistes en 1936, choqua Poulen...


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March 01 2017

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March 01 2017

ARTAMAG': Correspondances, Esther Hoppe

En décembre 2012, Esther Hoppe et Alasdair Beatson enregistraient pour Claves un disque étonnant où Mozart voisinait avec Stravinski. La couverture affichait crânement le compositeur du Sacre du printemps, masqué de ses fameuses lunettes noires, montrant un portrait de Mozart. Cette filiation espérée – on sait que Stravinski n’envisageait à Moza...


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February 21 2017

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February 21 2017

Gramophone (UK): Mozart-Poulenc, Violin Sonatas

Poulenc wasn’t too sure about violin sonatas: ‘The prima donna violin over arpeggiated piano makes me want to vomit’, he remarked. Presumably he’d have had no problem with the Mozart sonatas, K301 and 304, that open this disc by Esther Hoppe and Alasdair Beatson. These are sonatas for piano with violin accompaniment, rather than the other way ro...


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December 17 2016

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December 17 2016

Crescendo Magazine: Un conte de fée entre deux sonates de Mozart

Pour leur premier enregistrement en duo, Esther Hoppe et Alasdair Beatson se sont penchés sur un programme dont le fil conducteur semble être l’idée du classicisme ou tout du moins son évolution. Et quels autres compositeurs seraient plus représentatifs que ces deux grands maîtres que sont Mozart et Stravinsky? Si la réponse à cette question se...


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October 12 2016

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October 12 2016

Pizzicato.lu: Ein Wunder an Klangkultur - Claudio Abbado

Claudio Abbado hat bereits etliche Mozart-Konzerte mit dem Orchestra Mozart aufgenommen. Diese letzte Produktion enthält neben dem Oboenkonzert KV 314 noch Haydns Sinfonia Concertante Hob.I/105. Alle Solisten sind Musiker des ‘Orchestra Mozart’, und das bestimmt auch die Interpretationen. Hier sind es nicht Starsolisten, die mit einem Orcheste...


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June 02 2016

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June 02 2016

Best of albums June 2016 by Claves records

Top ten albums from Claves records' catalog in June 2016 - Powered by TheOrchard (Cristian Budu, Astrig Siranossian, Xavier de Maistre, Beethoven The Complete Piano Sonatas, Tharice Virtuosi, Mélodie Zhao, De Falla Complete Works for Piano Solo, Claudio Abbado, Haydn Six String Quartets, Demenga.) La playlist sur Deezer   La playlist sur Spo...


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February 23 2016

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February 23 2016

Wales Arts Review - Live | Françoise-Green Piano Duo

Café Griensteidl is an apt title for a piece of music by an Englishman at a concert mainly of works by Austrians, one of them a Viennese who helped rock the boat to the brink of capsize as the 20th century embarked on its troublesome course. It’s a new work by Andrew Wallace, who is studying in Cardiff, and is written for the piano duo of Antoin...


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