8 February 2016

Scarlatti (D): Sonatas, Vol. 1
Studio Master: CDA67613  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘This excellently recorded disc is outstanding. In her detailed essay Hewitt intimates a wish to issue further volumes. Wonderful news!’ (BBC Music Magazine)» More
PERFORMANCE
RECORDING
5 February 2016
Presto Classical, David Smith
Bach: The Complete Organ Works, Vol. 1
Studio Master: SIGCD800  Download only  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘One thing that immediately leaps out is the use of some quite extensive ornamentation – not merely mordents and so forth, but brillante scalic flourishes leading into cadences … the range of colours Goode draws from the Trinity College Cambridge chapel organ is also impressive … Bach's compositional genius is shown in the best possible light by Goode's thoughtful performances’ (Presto Classical)
3 February 2016

Różycki: Piano Concertos
Studio Master: CDA68066  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

„Łukasz Borowicz geht sehr maßvoll, sehr ernsthaft mit dem musikalischen Material um. Die Musik wirkt bei ihm sehr schlank, frei von Pathos und schwerer Süße, aber auch von allen Äußerlichkeiten. Auch Plowrights Spiel zeigt Różyckis fantasievolle Schreibweise großartig auf“ (Pizzicato, Luxembourg)» More

1 February 2016

Bach: Violin Concertos
Studio Master: CDA68068  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘Arcangelo plays with a lute and harpsichord continuo, but it’s the lute that predominates in the balance here, giving the performances a soft, warm background that provides a perfect setting for Ibragimova’s sensitive interpretations … her imaginative playing is full of sensitive phrasing and dynamics’ (The Whole Note, Canada)
1 February 2016
Fono Forum, Germany, Norbert Hornig
Fitzenhagen: Cello Concertos
Studio Master: CDA68063  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

„Fitzenhagen muss ein sensationeller Cellist gewesen sein, die beiden Cellokonzerte und die Ballade sind gespickt mit technischen Höchstschwierigkeiten. Zwar sind diese Werke mehr als pures Virtuosengeklingel, genießen kann man sie aber nur, wenn sie von einem Cellisten gespielt werden, der ihnen manuell voll gewachsen ist—wie Alban Gerhardt“ (Fono Forum, Germany)» More
PERFORMANCE
RECORDING
1 February 2016

Gabrieli (G): 1615 - Gabrieli in Venice
Studio Master: KGS0012  Download only  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

'The choral sound is candid and transparent, the lower, adult voices sensitively balanced so as not to swamp the delicate timbre of the boy choristers. His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts offer flawless, vocally-inspired ensemble playing, their plangent wind instruments gleaming and glimmering like the gold mosaics in San Marco' (BBC Music Magazine)

1 February 2016

Ornstein: Piano Quintet & String Quartet No 2
Studio Master: CDA68084  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

«Cet enregistrement pour Hyperion est l'aboutissement d'une série de concerts du Pacifica Quartet avec le Canadien Marc-André Hamelin. Ils en livrent une interprétation parfaitement rodée, bénéficiant de la virtuosité insolente d'un pianiste qui s'est fait le champion des musiques oubliées du XXème siècle» (Diapason, France)» More

1 February 2016

Roth: A Time to Dance & other choral works
Studio Master: CDA68144  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘With 'A Time to Dance' Roth has provided a serious alternative—a contemporary work of real character and energy’ (Gramophone)
1 February 2016

Różycki: Piano Concertos
Studio Master: CDA68066  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘An outstanding recording of a piano and orchestra … Jonathan Plowright and Łukasz Borowicz are like alchemists in the way they can raise first-class second-rate music to another level, a couple of fiercely combative squash players at times, two firm friends reminiscing on a long country walk at others’ (Gramophone)
1 February 2016
Audiophile Audition, USA, Peter Joelson
Różycki: Piano Concertos
Studio Master: CDA68066  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘Jonathan Plowright has this music in his heart and soul, and it shows, and his balance between the effervescent and the contemplative is impeccable’ (Audiophile Audition, USA)» More
1 February 2016

Scarlatti (D): Sonatas, Vol. 1
Studio Master: CDA67613  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘With so much experience playing music of the Baroque, you’d expect something highly personal from Hewitt. Even in a sonata as well known as the lilting Kk9, we hear it afresh, with no turn of phrase going unconsidered. In the bustling Kk159, replete with horn calls, she reveals as much interest in the inner parts as in the outer ones’ (Gramophone)
1 February 2016

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No 3; Musorgsky: Pictures from an exhibition
Studio Master: SIGCD426  Download only  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

'Bax is young, powerful and a capable interpreter with a natural instinct for drawing out the beauty of a melodic line' (The Whole Note, Canada)» More
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