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After a number of well-executed renditions of Shostakovich string quartets by Candida Thompson and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, this Bartók Divertimento strangely disappoints. The normally arresting
You can have too much of a good thing, but
Not surprisingly Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday year has brought with it a number of new recordings—not that there weren’t plenty in the catalog already; for
Most Bottesini CDs are miserable: a hapless double bass player grinding away excruciatingly at what sounds like impossibly empty, virtuosic trash, usually accompanied by a
This is a wonderful concept, perfectly realized. Most recordings of Mahler’s arrangements of the quartet literature group this Beethoven quartet with Schubert’s Death and the
This brilliantly conceived collection of Czech music for strings features stunning performances of all three works. The Dvorák Serenade sounds newly-minted in this bright, lively
This is an amazing disc in every respect. The Amsterdam Sinfonietta plays with such incredible unanimity of ensemble, but at the same time with such
BIS offers arguably the finest available performances of Mendelssohn’s complete string symphonies (including the full orchestra version of No. 8) on a single SACD lasting
The coupling of Walton and Beethoven isn’t as odd as you might at first think. Beethoven’s late quartet style is so timeless and modern sounding
Channel Classics gives fantastic performances in near-perfect SACD 5.0 DSD multi-channel sound (any questions about what that means?). I say “near-perfect” because there’s a touch
