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the most striking aspects of Podger’s playing throughout this recital (compared to most 20th-century ‘golden-agers’), is her enhanced range of tone and articulation, her vastly more flexible... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Recording of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Instrumental
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Instrumental
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A spellbinding set that is arguably Podger's finest recorded achievement to date...Music that one thinks of instinctively as boldly-etched, deeply (in every sense) introspective and eliciting... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th April 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2019, Recording of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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Guardian Angel: Rachel Podger RecommendedMusic by Bach, Matteis, Tartini, Pisendel, Biber
Rachel Podger (violin)
Characteristically unforced and natural, the playing manages to sound endlessly considered yet spontaneous. There's a sureness to the placing of every note, whether poised or bristling with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Instrumental Award Winner
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This is Matthew Wadsworth’s finest release to date … a gem of an album, which exudes intelligence, sensitivity and sheer class … A richly painted recital that really shouldn’t be missed. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2006, Editor's Choice
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There is indeed little that these players cannot project in terms of multifacted lyricism, colour and dramatic presence, and this is matched by the very best in modern brass programming…all... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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Matthew Wadsworth - Knight of the Lute
Music from The Varierie of Lute Lessons, 1610
Matthew Wadsworth (lute)
Wadsworth's… playing… is stolid and deliberate yet strangely luminous - no light but rather darkness visible. In his hands Anthony Holborne, Thomas Morley and Daniel Batchelar's dark, sophisticated... — More…
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If the spirit of the originals is hard to reproduce, the attempt yields a rich crop of repertoire-enhancing chamber music. The playing sparkles with an intoxicating freshness that continually... — More…
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Dejan Lazić (piano)
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (leader)
There are plenty of surprises in this performance but on its own wayward terms it's captivating: anyone looking for a fresh, thought-provoking account of this concerto might feel minded to explore... — More…
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Lazi´c's extrovert approach is effective in Schumann: his Papillons is mercurial, while his Waldszenen is stark and dark without becoming depressive — More…
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