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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61 & Overture, Op. 21
RecommendedCeri-Lyn Cissone (narrator), Alexander Knox (narrator) & Frankie Wakefield (narrator)
London Symphony Orchestra & The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
…much to enjoy here…pinpoint precision of melody-carrying flutes and violins, the sure footed bass and above all a sense that the composer is being taken seriously. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd February 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Orchestral Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Musique Symphonique
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
SACD + Blu-ray
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These are big-hearted, bear-hug performances, full of passion. The Second Symphony is given a dramatic, propulsive reading...The Symphonic Dances come off terrifically. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Editor's Choice
2 CDs + Blu-ray
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The Tenth Symphony is by far and away the best of these three performances...Under Petrenko the great arc of the first movement is mapped with a grandly defiant symphonic logic...When it comes,... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Orchestral
2 CDs + Blu-ray
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This Is Rattle
Grime, Ades. Birtwistle, Knussen & Elgar
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
The dazzling panache of the LSO’s playing has you wondering all over again at the mesmerising range of options that Adès’s ear and technical command can summon…And Elgar’s Enigma Variations yet... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
DVD Video + Blu-ray
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The video shows Copland as a precise, energetic and alert conductor, smiling happily at the orchestra after each piece and enjoying himself enormously in the performance of the Hoedown from the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Vidéo
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Rattle’s deft, beautifully nuanced readings have none of the plush upholstery that once characterised the Berliners’ Schumann, and yet it’s impossible to listen to these performances without... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th May 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
2 CDs + Blu-ray
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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Barbara Hannigan (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Every nuance [of The Rite] is crafted, each detail considered, yet there is still a sense of danger and visceral power…Rattle and the LSO are joined, usurped even, by the extraordinary Barbara... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, Orchestral Choice
Blu-ray + DVD Video
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The John Adams Edition
RecommendedBerliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, John Adams, Alan Gilbert, Gustavo Dudamel, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle
Both [Harmonielehre and The Gospel According to the Other Mary] benefit from the full palette of the Berlin Philharmonic, from powerful lower brass to exquisite wind solos and sensuous strings;... — More…
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium
4 CDs + 2 Blu-ray Videos
$89.00Downloads
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This captures much of the peerless tone-colour, shape, drive and above all those hushed dynamics of [the] performance, awarded what feels like an infinite silence at the end...Abbado's pacing... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, DVD of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, DVD Award Winner
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Here is music and music-making in which elegance, dash and lightness of spirit sit side by side with pools of emotional quiet which can haunt the mind for days to come. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Editor's Choice
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