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Presto CD - More Gramophone Award and Rosette winners are back
Here is the latest batch of our Manufacture on Demand titles, featuring Penguin Rosette and Gramophone Award winners on Decca and Deutsche Grammophon across a wide range of genres and artists.
Highlights include Paul McCreesh's landmark Venetian Vespers disc, a legendary 1953 set of the Beethoven Piano Concertos from Wilhelm Kempf and the famous set of the Bartók String Quartets from the Tokyo String Quartet which was both a Gramophone Award winner and a Building a Library First Choice.
Gramophone Awards Collection
Christopher Hogwood & Academy of Ancient Music took the Early Music laurels in 1979 with this 3-CD set of the Salzburg Symphonies.
Available Format: 3 Presto CDs
'As Mandarins go, they don't come more miraculous than this': Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra won the 1998 Orchestral Category with this 'vivid, no-holds-barred performance'.
Available Format: Presto CD
Anne Sofie von Otter and her regular duo-partner Bengt Forsberg won not only the Solo Vocal award but also the overall Record of the Year in 1993 with this gorgeous disc of Norwegian songs.
Available Formats: Presto CD, MP3, FLAC
The Tokyo String Quartet's survey of the Bartók quartets was a Building a Library First Choice 24 years after winning the Gramophone Awards Chamber Category in 1981.
Available Format: 3 Presto CDs
The late Carlo Bergonzi was widely regarded as one of the finest Verdi tenors of all time, and the composer accounts for half of this glorious 2-CD set, which won Bergonzi the Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.
Available Format: 2 Presto CDs
Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort and Players scooped the Early Music award in 1993 with this reconstruction of a 1643 celebration of Marian Vespers at Venice's St Mark's Basilica: composers include Monteverdi, Cavalli and Giovanni Gabrieli.
Available Formats: 2 Presto CDs, MP3, FLAC
This 5-CD set from Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel includes the complete flute and violin sonatas, and won the Early Music category in 1984.
Available Format: 5 Presto CDs
Penguin Rosette Collection
Christopher Hogwood's account of Byrd's 42-piece collection was highly praised by BBC Music Magazine when it first appeared on CD: 'These are performances full of verve, as definitive now as they were 18 years ago.'
Available Format: 3 Presto CDs
Konrad Ragossnig covers150 years and eight countries in this recital of music by Morley, Milan, Judenkünig and others: BBC Music deemed it 'a fascinating grand tour of European lute music'
Available Format: 4 Presto CDs
Gramophone pronounced Gerhard Unger's recording 'a winner... the consistently elevated level of artistry and, perhaps above all, the spirit in which Telemann’s anthology has been brought to life make it an irresistible choice.'
Available Format: 4 Presto CDs
This 1953 set with Wilhelm Kempf and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Paul van Kempen was praised by Gramophone for its 'daunting array of insights' and 'extraordinary sense of the imaginative dimension of these works.'
Available Format: 3 Presto CDs
Recorded in 1995, these Academy of St Martin in the Fields accounts are directed by Iona Brown and were acclaimed by MusicWeb International as 'performances full of sensitivity and insight'.
Available Formats: 3 Presto CDs, MP3, FLAC
Chris O'Reilly - Chief Executive
