BBC Music Magazine kürt die besten klassischen Alben 2020

Das BBC Music Magazine wählt jährlich die besten klassischen Alben des Jahres.
Im Jahr 2020 haben es gleich drei unserer Künstler in die Auswahl geschafft: Raphaela Gromes, Alexandre Tharaud und Giuliano Carmignola. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

In der Kategorie „The best concerto recordings” Giuliano Carmignola’s Album “Bach – Vivaldi”, aufgenommen mit dem Cellisten Mario Brunello, sowie der Accademia dell’Annunciata unter Riccardo Doni. In der Begründung heißt es:

“The soloists are not only superb virtuosos but they converse with the rapport of chamber musicians, and are keenly aware of period style – Carmignola playing a Venetian violin from 1733 by Pietro Guarneri, Brunello a copy of an Amati from the early 1600s, its sound warm and tenorial. They parry with daring abandon Vivaldi’s barrage of challenges (quick-fire passagework, double stopping, bariolage, high-wire acrobatics), while to Bach’s Teutonic idiom they bring Italian fire and lyricism. These are high-risk performances, both soloists preferring raw expression to mere beauty of sound.“ (BBC Music Magazine, 20.07.2020, Kate Bolton-Porciatti)

https://www.classical-music.com/reviews/concerto/js-bach-goldberg-vivaldi-concertos-etc/

Alexandre Tharaud’s Album “Chanson d’Amour” mit der Sopranistin Sabine Devieilhe wird in der Kategorie „The best choral and song recordings” ausgewählt:

“Changes of register, notably Devieilhe’s hushed leap towards the end of Debussy’s ‘Apparition’, are seemingly effortless, matched by Alexandre Tharaud’s ever-nuanced, passionately intelligent pianism. Ravel’s ‘Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques’ finds them in perfectly controlled equilibrium, Devieilhe floating with aching beauty while Tharaud seemingly strokes the piano strings.” (BBC Music Magazine, 01.10.2020, Christopher Dingle)

https://www.classical-music.com/reviews/choral-song/chanson-damour/

Raphaela Gromes und Julian Riem überzeugen in der Kategorie „The best chamber music recordings“ mit ihrem Album “Richard Strauss Cello Sonatas »:

In this persuasive performance by Raphaela Gromes and Julian Riem, the early work bursts into irrepressible life. […] Beguiling song arrangements make up the balance of the disc. Beautifully detailed performances combine with a powerful sense of music cherished.” (BBC Music Magazine, 14.05.2020, Helen Wallace)

https://www.classical-music.com/reviews/chamber/r-strauss-cello-sonata-in-f-major-op-6-etc/