Hazard Chase artists featured in The Times' top classical recordings of 2009
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Three Hazard Chase artists have been recognised in The Times’ recent survey of the the top classical music recordings released during 2009. Isabelle Faust, Viviane Hagner and Retrospect Trio are all commended in the catalogue of recordings compiled by Hugh Canning and Paul Driver, which is divided into two categories of Classical and Contemporary.
Isabelle Faust’s recent release of the complete Beethoven sonatas for Harmonia Mundi, with pianist Alexander Melnikov, is placed second in the list of twenty classical releases, whilst Retrospect Trio’s critically acclaimed recordings of the Purcell Trio Sonatas, with Artistic Director Matthew Halls as harpsichordist, is placed at number fourteen (“...The playing is immaculate — expressive and alert to all the nuance and variety of this superb music. An absolute winner for the Purcell year...”). Elsewhere, Viviane Hagner’s Analekta recording of the Unsuk Chin Violin Concerto, with the Montreal Symphony and Kent Nagano, is placed third in the list of the top ten recordings of contemporary music.
The Times has also compiled a list of the ten best classical albums of the decade, in which Viviane Hagner is again featured for her Unsuk Chin recording, alongside a recording of one of Hazard Chase’s finest touring collaborations, Osvaldo Golijov’s Ayre.
