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Rubicon Classics
27 Mar 2026
Esther Birringer’s recording captures a wealth of nuanced facets. Opposites collide: minimalist miniatures meet dramatic narrative arcs, familiar masterpieces meet modern voices. The tensions collide – and at the same time merge into a harmonious unity that breaks down conventional limits. SPECTRUM is a kaleidoscope of emotional, stylistic, and formal facets: surprising, intense, lively.
Debussy
'Esther Birringer's instincts for colour and nuance work well in Debussy's music.'
Jed, Distler, Gramophone
'The upside is that she has shed any youthful excrescences or ineptitudes there might have been and gives Debussy honest and thoughtful performances.'
Roger Nichols, BBC Music Magazine
Rubicon Classics
RCD1097
23 Sep 2022
Once Upon A Time
Rubicon Classics
RCD1067
28 May 2021
'Strongly recommended'
'Happily, Birringer is the most balletic interpretor I have encountered. Superb musicianship is on display here.
This release is an unexpected delight that far exceeded my expectations. From start to finish Birringer has created one of the best piano discs of the year and easily the most
entertaining.'
Huntley Dent, Fanfare magazine
Di tanti palpiti
Lea Birringer is standing in focus of this production with her violin, but not alone: the collaboration with her sister Esther Birringer, which has been tried and tested for years, succeeds again impressively here. While the pianist elicits melodies 'full of heartfelt lyricism and pearly fluency' (Voralberger Nachrichten) from her instrument, she rounds off the overall impression exquisitely with her exquisite piano art.
'Must be heard!' - Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Rubicon Classics
RCD1034
27 Sep 2019
Lifelines
Rubicon Classics
RCD1007
26 Jan 2018
'The two beautiful sisters from the Saarland are a blast from an artistic point of view. Both are also soloists, but especially as a duo they convince with
technical mastery, profound musicality and - above all - perfect harmony. They perform the two rarely heard Liszt Elegies, which are the center of their new CD, in an atmospherically intense
manner. And they also stay true to the other two works, Edvard Grieg's first sonata and César Franck's famous A major sonata: their Grieg sounds poetic and fine, and with Franck they show that a
veritable fire burns in them as well.'
Remy Franck, Concerti
Szymanowski | Hindemith | Respighi
'All phrases are breathed together, all curves of excitement felt together. It is thrilling how the duo experience the nervous tension and the
permanent pressing onwards of the Szymanowski Sonata. The Birringer sisters remain highly concentrated, even when the overpressure once subsides. In the slow movements they successfully deliver
moments of poetic beauty.'
NDR Kultur
Avi-music
LC 09406
17 Jan 2014
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