I have yet to fully review this album, but overall I like it quite a bit. I had already noticed this album earlier this year when I saw it got a Choc from Classica and a 5 star review from Diapason. 76 – Quatuor Hermes & Geoffroy Cocteau – LaDolce Volta 2019 Brahms: Piano Quintet & Klavierstücke op. In 2019, the smaller dedicated labels like Alpha, Hyperion, BIS, Chandos, have just become so much more important that the old majors like DG, Sony, Decca, etc.Īmong other albums they specifically mention Celine’s Frisch Well Tempered Clavier recording ( my 5 star review here), and Rouvali’s Sibelius 1 (also featured in the Gramophone Award nominees). Label of the year is the French label Alpha, and here I fully agree. But I’ll check it out more systematically in the future, and so should you. The Franck album I haven’t really listened to a lot, he is one of those lesser known French composers that I just have much less experience with. Sure, it’s not bad, but I’d clearly prefer others here (among recent choices, Levit, Perahia, Lewis). I must admit I really don’t share their excitement for the Beethoven album. Two albums get a particular mention, his recent 2019 Beethoven sonata album on La Dolce Volta, as well as César Franck solo piano and chamber album on Aparte. Les Chocs de l’année 2019 – Classica Magazine – Artist of the Yearįirst category is “L’artiste de l’année”, winner is French pianist Michel Dalberto (I can’t help but notice that while Gramophone is a bit biased towards UK artists, Gramophone has the same for their local talent.) I’ve commented nearly every year on the Gramophone Awards nominees and winners, but I’ve never written a lot about the equivalent of Classica Magazine, the “Chocs de l’année”.Ĭlassica has a five star rating system for all albums (although I hardly ever see 1 stars appear), but on top of the 5 stars, they also select every months the albums “Choc”, similar to Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice.Īnd, once per year, Classica publishes their “Chocs de l’année”, i.e the overall best albums of the year. Interestingly enough, Classica really is the magazine where I have the most overlap with their reviews, for Gramphone it is a bit more hit and miss. One is the UK’s Gramophone, the other France’s Classica Magazine. Regular readers of my blog know that I mainly follow two classical magazines as a reference.
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