Death and the maiden : string quartets nos. 4 & 12 Quartettsatz
Franz Schubert
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Reviews (9)
Presto classical
d. 30. Nov. 2022
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Katherine Cooper
d. 30. Nov. 2022
"Editor's choice - November 2022: Schwabe's big, brawny tone and evident rapport with Pöntinen certainly pack a punch in the opening movements of the Prokofiev and Shostakovich sonatas in particular, but he's just as compelling when thinning his tone down to the merest thread of sound or stepping into the role of accompanist; Kissin's brooding one-movement Cello Sonata from 2016 showcases his ringing upper register, whilst both artists generate an edge-of-the-seat frisson in the hectic passage-work of Prokofiev's early (and under-recorded) Ballade from 1912".
MusicWeb international
2022 November
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Steve Arloff
2022 November
"This disc is delightful, and the well-chosen pieces certainly show the cello in all its majesty. Gabriel Schwabe elicits a gorgeously warm tone from his instrument. He gets perfect accompaniment from Roland Pöntinen, whose career as a soloist and an accompanist has been crafted over more than forty years. His partnering with Schwabe confers its own stamp of approval, and is well deserved".
Jyllands-posten
d. 13. Apr. 2015
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Jens Povlsen
d. 13. Apr. 2015
"Unge Leonard Elschenbroich ... har som cellist masser at skyde med i Kabalevskijs i grunden dybt bedrøvelige Cellokoncert nr. 2. Elschenbroich og Litton træder ikke vande, men valser arm i arm ned gennem Kabalevskijs følelseskorridorer".
Fono Forum
2015 Juli
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Ole Pflüger
2015 Juli
"Daniel Müller-Schott und Francesco Piemontesi treten mit einer klaren Dramaturgie für die Sonaten von Schostakowitsch, Britten und Prokofjew an. Da ist jeder Takt auf seine Wirkung hin akkurat zurechtgezimmert ... Hier beweisen er und sein Partner zusätzlich ein brillantes Gespür für weite Spannungsbögen".
Diapason
2015 decembre
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Martine D. Mergeay
2015 decembre
Diapason
2023 février
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Patrick Szersnovicz
2023 février
International record review
2015 February
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Michael Jameson
2015 February
"The Second Concerto [Kabalevsky] ... is an exceptionally fine work ... In Leonard Elsenbroich ... the concerto finds an ideal advocate, and hist outstanding new account could well fuel renewed interest in this unjustly neglected piece ... Turning to the Prokofiev works ... I greatly enjoyed Elsenbroich's lustrous playing and studiously conceived interpretation ... In sum, this is a wonderfully played and atmospherically recorded CD".
BBC music magazine
2015 February
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Daniel Jaffé
2015 February
"High hopes for this account of Prokofiev's rather different but nontheless subtle and engaging Cello Sonata. These are more than fulfilled ... it is diappointing to findoe Kabalevsky Concerto less that engaging".
The gramophone
2015 February
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David Gutman
2015 February
"This is an enterprising, thoroughly recommendable release from a coming star".
