Given Gramophones slightly patriotic tendencies, I’m willing to bet that the Britten album will win, but I’d prefer Faust or Ibragimova to get the price. So, out of the 6 albums above, which ones made the shortlist of the shortlist? Let’s make it short (sorry for the bad pun): the Britten, Debussy, and the Franck. We’re talking about the Belcea quartet, with Piotr Anderszewski. I bought the version by the Takacs Quartet with Marc-André Hamelin on Hyperion, but the album selected here was truly the best alternative and I probably will add it to my collection soon. But I’ve recently acquired the piano quintet which is really worth discovering. I must admit I’m still new to most of Shostakovich’s oeuvre, and finding my way through the very special world of this composer. What is there to say, beautiful playing, charming music, a treat!Īnd, to wrap up the list of the 6 shortlisted albums, Shostakovich. Brahms: The String Quartets, String Quintet No.2. The French Trio Wanderer has recorded some very good albums before, check out their complete Beethoven trios for example. Gramophone magazine review for The Alehouse Sessions (RCD1017). That said, his symphonies are being freshly recorded by Giovanni Antonini (see here), his string quartets are fantastic, and his trios are also really worth exploring. “Papa Haydn” really isn’t my favourite composer. BBC Music Magazine award winners the Dante Quartet return for their third Hyperion recording with the string quartets of Smetana and Sibelius. The two of them have also recently recorded the Brahms sonatas, and I’ll probably have to get my credit card out soon. The composers on this album, Franck, Vierene, Boulanger and Ysaÿe are less known, but the music is very much worth discovering. Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, two fantastic artists on their own, but even more special as a perfect duo. I have a special relationship to the next album as well, given that I’ve seen the artists perform it live in concert. Dvorak isn’t part of my most core repertoire, but this album could easily make it into heavy rotation on my computer. This trio is truly fantastic, having recorded some outstanding Brahms albums previously, and from the first bars of this album it is very clear this new release is also very special. Next on the list is another favourite of mine, Christian Tetzlaff and his sister Tanja and Lars Vogt on piano playing the piano trios no. Wow! Expect a more detailed review, but in any case, this is really promising! Also look at the list of musicians, Queyras, Melnikov, Perianes. I’ve only started streaming it over the last few days but really like it. Not sure how I missed this as it features my heroine, Isabelle Faust. We’re talking about an album called in a nice international mixture Les Trois Sonates – Late Works. Probably again, mainly due to my general issue with 20th century music.Īnother 20th century album that I had completely missed comes from Debussy (a lot of Debussy recordings due to the 100 years of his death in 1918). I like the Doric as an excellent quartet, but Britten is a composer I just don’t get. Nice quota.īritten’s string quartets played by the Doric quartet is the only album I’m not going to comment about. Out of the 6 initially shortlisted (now narrowed to 3, see below), I fully support and like 5. Chamber is a particularly rewarding catogory for the Gramophone awards this year, at least from my perspective. I must also lavish praise on Lucy Russell for her outstanding playing on this track. A lislin, in this column does nol preclude the />OIibililY of 4 review in a. 'I haven’t heard sonics like these since the 1950s, except perhaps on Ornette Coleman’s two Sound Museum CDs, which also had a retro feel…. - David Balakrishnan (founder of the Turtle Island String Quartet, 2012) Masterfully brought to focus by the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, enriched and enlivened by jazz violin wizard Mads Tolling, and highlighted by the composer’s own hard swinging virtuosic saxophone playing, the new record of Uwe Steinmetz and the Fitzwilliam String Quartet is a must-listen for anyone with ears for what’s happening in contemporary cross-genre music making." "Beautiful, evocative, compelling, dense at times while deeply tinged in heart and soul, Uwe Steinmetz’s brilliant original compositions and visionary arrangements of classical masterworks are eminently suited for the lens of the modern day string quartet form.
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