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Martinu: Cello Sonatas - Isserlis, Mustonen        (2 of 3 found this review helpful)
  September 27, 2014

What a great program on this ample SACD! The three Sonatas for Piano and Cello by Bohuslav Martinu “are all works from his mature years that are among his most played. Related in form and style, they are different in their expressive climate,” states Harry Halbreich. Respectively, we hear the Sonata ... more
Janacek: String quartets, Concertino - Prazak Quartet        (3 of 4 found this review helpful)
  September 27, 2014

This SACD recorded in pure DSD proposes three works of chamber music by Leos Janacek (1854-1928). The String Quartet N°1 “Kreutzer Sonata” based on Tolstoy which the composer “approaches like an opera without words, a psychological drama where each instrument can be a voice, can become a character ... more
La Voix de l’émotion II - Montserrat Figueras        (1 of 2 found this review helpful)
  September 27, 2014

With this second SACD volume that pays tribute to Montserat Figueras, it is a unique voice we rediscover over the course of different recordings. As the poet Carles Duarte i Montserrat said so well: “Montserrat Figueras’ voice, offering its form of impressive beauty to an immense vocal repertory of ... more
Beethoven: String Trio Op. 3 & Serenade Op. 8 - Trio Zimmermann        (0 of 3 found this review helpful)
  September 27, 2014

The Zimmermann Trio returns with a new recording devoted to Beethoven in which we can hear the String Trio Op.3 N°1 for Violin, Viola and Cello in E flat major, which “was at first to have been a quartet, in order to respond to a commission by the Count Apponyi: from that moment on, one can imagine ... more
Gubaidulina: Repentance - Halász et al        (0 of 3 found this review helpful)
  July 19, 2014

Each new recording devoted to Sofia Gubaidulina is always a welcome one, for the musical universe of the Russian composer is both fascinating and essential in the field of contemporary music. Today, the copious program of this SACD allows us to discover four scores from differing periods for chamber ... more

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