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PAGANINI
24 Caprices for solo violin James Ehnes (violin) [ Onyx / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "A marvellous, amazing, stunning, spectacular, fabulous, awe-inspiring, fabulous piece of music-making." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Nov 2009) |
GEMINIANI / HANDEL / PIANI
Affettuoso Emilio Percan (baroque violin), Oriol Aymat-Fusté (baroque cello) & Luca Quintaville (harpsichord) [ Onyx / CD - released 1/Apr/2012 ] "This is a superb disc, in fact one of the best discs with baroque violin music I have heard for some time. Making the acquaintance of the music of Giovanni Antonio Piani was a most pleasant experience. I hope that his other sonatas will be recorded... |
BARBER / BERNSTEIN / CARTER / COPLAND / IVES
American Chamber Music American Chamber Music James Ehnes (violin) / Seattle Chamber Music Society [ ONYX / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] James Ehnes and friends from the Seattle Chamber Music Society hit the road on a fascinating journey through chamber music by some of the giants of 20th-century American classical music. Aaron Copland's masterful Violin Sonata, Leonard Bernstein's... |
STRAVINSKY
Apollo / Concerto in D for Strings (with Prokofiev-20 Visions fugitives op 22) Moscow Soloists / Yuri Bashmet [ Onyx / CD - released 20/May/2007 ] Grammy Award Winner 2008 - Best Small Ensemble Performance |
HENRY PURCELL / GEORGE CRUMB
Apparition: Songs by Henry Purcell and George Crumb Christine Schafer (soprano) / Eric Schneider (piano) [ Onyx / CD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] "Her exemplary clarity of tone and diction, and her emotional commitment to both composers, make for a powerful recital." (BBC Music) |
ARVO PART
Arvo Part Viktoria Mullova (violin) / Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi [ Onyx / CD - released 21/Sep/2018 ] "Immutable, austere, impassable - the strength of Arvo Pärt's music lies in its ability to project an image as powerful and complete as the religious iconography it often seeks to replicate." Gramophone |
Midori (violin)
Bach, J S: Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin, BWV1001-1006 [ Onyx / 2 CD - released 30/Oct/2016 ] "The story goes that, when I was about two years old, my mother found me humming a Bach melody that she had been practicing a few days earlier. My own memories of Bach begin from the time when I started to practice my first solo Sonata in G minor,... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin James Ehnes (violin) [ Onyx / 2 CD - released 28/Jan/2022 ] "..overall these excellently-recorded performances are among the finest available." BBC Music Instrumental Choice Feb 2022 |
QUILTER / GRIFFES / COPLAND / BRITTEN / BERNSTEIN / BARBER
Barbara Bonney: My Name is Barbara Barbara Bonney, soprano, Malcolm Martineau, piano [ Onyx Classics / CD - released 9/Jul/2005 ] Uniquely fascinating programme compares and contrasts great songwriters from both sides of the Atlantic during the early-mid 20th century, mixing the well-known with the extremely unusual, like the individual and impressionistic world of Charles... |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok Orchestral Works Volume 1 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard [ Onyx / CD - released 18/Nov/2019 ] "The Concerto for Orchestra is played with tremendous relish…Recorded sound quality is sympathetic and clear, enabling the detailed writing to be heard without resonant overkill." BBC Music |
BARTOK
Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin Thomas Dausgaard, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra [ Onyx / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] Bartok composed the Miraculous Mandarin (published as 'A Pantomime in One Act') at a time of violent unrest in Hungary. The unpleasant Soviet Hungarian Republic had collapsed in 1919 and was replaced by an ultra nationalist regime which persecuted... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: 33 Variations in C Major on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op.120 Shai Wosner (piano) [ Onyx / CD - released 29/Sep/2023 ] In 1819 the publisher and composer Anton Diabelli invited 50 Austrian composers to write one variation a short waltz he had composed. He specified that it take up just one sheet (which he supplied) and this already contained his waltz. Composers such... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Sontatas & Variations for Cello and Piano Ralph Kirshbaum (cello), Shai Wosner (piano) [ Onyx / 2 CD - released 23/Dec/2016 ] "Wosner keeps the piano line crisp and buoyant; Kirshbaum spins long, broad phrases that look convincingly into the far distance. Together they make Beethoven's huge structures work, but the details can be striking too." The Guardian |
Ehnes Quartet
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132, String Quartet No. 16, Op. 135 [ Onyx Classcis / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] The final volume in the critically acclaimed set of recordings by the Ehnes Quartet of the late quartets of Beethoven. Gramophone magazine said of the Op.130 & 133 album ONYX4199; 'It's many a year since I've heard string quartet playing that's more... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartet No.10, Op.74 'Harp' / String Quartet No.11, Op.95 'Quartetto serioso' Ehnes Quartet [ Onyx / CD ] This, the third in the series of Beethoven's late quartets from the Ehnes Quartet deviates from the official 'late' works to include the last two of Beethoven's 'middle period' quartets: |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartet No.13 in B flat, Op.130 Grosse Fuge op.133 Ehnes Quartet [ Onyx / CD - released 28/May/2021 ] Like many musical projects planned for 2020, the plans of the Ehnes Quartet to record Beethoven's late quartets underwent a drastic revision. Rather than cancel the project, some ingenious technology was employed. James Ehnes takes up the story 'Our... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Cello Sonatas Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) & Alexei Grynyuk (piano) [ Onyx / 2 CD - released 3/May/2019 ] The five cello sonatas span Beethoven's three creative periods, with the audacious op.5 sonatas dating from the early years on his time in Vienna as a piano virtuoso and aspiring composer (1792-9), the great op.69 sonata is from the period that saw... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Cello Sonatas (LP) Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) & Alexei Grynyuk (piano) [ Onyx / 3 LP - released 3/May/2019 ] The five cello sonatas span Beethoven's three creative periods, with the audacious op.5 sonatas dating from the early years on his time in Vienna as a piano virtuoso and aspiring composer (1792-9), the great op.69 sonata is from the period that saw... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Romances (with Schubert: Rondo in A) James Ehnes (violin), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze [ Onyx Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] "Technically, Ehnes's playing is a marvel...But, really, it's his - and Manze's - thoughtfulness and patience that make this recording so satisfying." Gramphone Editor's Choice November 2017 |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas 4, 5 & 7 Viktoria Mullova (violin), Alasdair Beatson (piano) [ Onyx Classcis / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] Viktoria Mullova's first album of Beethoven Violin Sonatas, Nos 3 & 9'Kreutzer' with Kristian Bezuidenhout, was reviewed enthusiastically by Gramophone magazine. ' The sound, in these familiar pieces has a startling clarity'; it went on to say that... |
