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Presto CD - 100 ASV titles
A very mixed bag of goodies from the archives of ASV - from the ethereal Nordic beauty of the late Knut Nystedt's choral music to the familiar tunefulness of Howard Goodall, with Bloch's bittersweet Baal Shem and Violin Concerto and relatively unknown chamber music by Elgar, Bridge and Delius.
We've selected 25 favourites from this latest batch, but you can browse through all 100 ASV releases here, and view all available Presto CDs (now numbering well over 1000 titles!) here.
Yondani Butt conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Goldmark's First Symphony and the Sakantala Overture.
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Includes the well-known Caucasian Sketches, and less familiar works such as the Armenian Rhapsody, Turkish Fragments and Jubilee March.
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Geoffrey Webber directs The Choir of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge in sacred music by two operatic masters, including Janacek's Otcenáš and Mass in E flat and Puccini's Requiem and Salve Regina.
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Kåre Hanken directs Schola Cantorum Oslo in works including the Stabat Mater, Miserere and Immortal Bach (based on Komm, süsser Tod).
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John Lubbock conducts the Orchestra of St. John's, Smith Square in Gounod's two rarely-heard but 'elegantly crafted works' (Gramophone Guide).
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The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, directed by Stephen Darlington, sing works including the themes from The Vicar of Dibley and Mr Bean as well as the Marlborough Canticles and Missa Aedis Christi.
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Paul Badura-Skoda is the soloist for the two Piano Concertos and the Ballade for Piano and Orchestra, with Sebastian Benda joining for the Dance of Fear.
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The Fujita Piano Trio perform works including Between Tides, Distance de Fée and From Far Beyond Chrysanthemums and November Fog.
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A Gramophone Editor's Choice in 2003, Vol. 6 of the Lindsays' acclaimed 'New Beethoven Cycle' gives 'distinctive and deeply satisfying' (Gramophone) accounts of the 11th and 12th Quartets.
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Loris Tjeknavorian conducts the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra in Lermontov Suite, Russian Fantasy, Ode in Memory of Lenin, Greeting Overture and Festive Poem.
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Martin Roscoe joins the Vanbrugh Quartet for 'arrestingly persuasive accounts' (Gramophone Guide) of the two Quintets and Suite in the Olden Style.
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Yondani Butt conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a programme that also includes the two Serenades and the early symphonic poem Stenka Razin.
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José Serebrier conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in suites from I Gioielli della Madonna, Il Campiello and I Quattro Rusteghi and three overtures.
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José Serebrier conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in two of his own works, Poema Elegiaco and Momento psicológico, as well as Bloch's two masterpieces.
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Emma Johnson joins the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for three early Classical concertos, in performances praised by Gramophone for their 'devil-may-care spontaneity'.
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Allan Schiller joins the Coull Quartet.
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The Brodsky Quartet offer 'superlatively idiomatic performances' in 'quartet-playing of the first order' (Gramophone).
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Neville Marriner directs the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in music by Debussy, Ibert, Ravel and Fauré.
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The Lindsays' accounts of these three quartets were a Building a Library First Choice for Op. 33 in January 2012, and won praise from The Independent for their 'vitality and intelligence'.
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The second volume in The Lindsays' 'Bohemians' series features two short works by Dvorak and both Smetana quartets.
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Emma Johnson is partnered by Malcolm Martineau in Finzi's Five Bagatelles and Stanford's Three Intermezzi, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Charles Groves in each composer's concerto.
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Emma Johnson is the soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra in a programme that also includes the Grand Duo Concertant and the Concertino Op. 26.
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Adrian Leaper conducts the Coro & Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria in Villa-Lobos's 1920s sequence inspired by Brazilian street-music.
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Yondani Butt conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra, with Yuko Nishino as soloist in the Violin Concerto.
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A Gramophone Editor's Choice in October 2003, this disc also includes Greco's Pastel and I'm Superman!.
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