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A Lionel Tertis Celebration RecommendedTimothy Ridout (viola), Frank Dupree (piano), James Baillieu (piano)
From imposing sonatas to salon bonbons, these recordings constitute a deft salute not just to Tertis the man and multifaceted musician, but also to an enduring legacy which lives on in distinguished... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Recording of the Month
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His account of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet suite affords further evidence that he is one of the world’s most accomplished poets of the keyboard, and I have never heard ‘Ondine’ so dainty and... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th January 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Recording of the Month
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Here is piano-playing of such an exalted standard I seriously wonder if anything comparable exists on record. I wait impatiently for a Hamelin piano concerto. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd February 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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Vivaldi: Concerti Per Una Vita RecommendedThéotime Langlois de Swarte (violin/director), Le Consort
There is no doubt about the exceptional playing of both soloist and orchestra, directed by Langlois de Swarte himself – alternately exuberant , wayward, introspective and melancholic, they move... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th February 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Concerto Choice
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Janáček: Katya Kabanova RecommendedAmanda Majeski (Katya), Katarina Dalayman (Kabanicha), Simon O'Neill (Boris), Andrew Staples (Tichon), Magdalena Kozená (Varvara), Ladislav Elgr (Kudrjas), Pavlo Hunka (Dikój)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
The LSO are on tremendous form throughout, and what follows is an unflinching journey into both beauty and darkness, as sensuousness repeatedly collides with incipient violence. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd February 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Recording of the Month
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Imaginative, sensitive programming has been a constant feature of Ruby Hughes’s collaborations; and this latest with the perennially adventurous Manchester Collective is no exception...A disc... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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The real rarities abound with details that evidently seized Wagner’s imagination: a scene from Meyerbeer’s Il crociato features some solemn low brass writing that seems to point the way to Parsifal,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st March 2024
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Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphony RecommendedMarc-André Hamelin (piano), Nathalie Forget (ondes martenot), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno
Matching the power and dexterity of the orchestra at every step, Hamelin is commanding and magisterial in his cadenzas in the first, fourth, and seventh movements, whilst delicate and graceful... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd February 2024
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Handel: Alcina RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (Alcina), Anna Bonitatibus (Ruggiero), Erin Morley (Morgana), Elizabeth DeShong (Bradamante), Alois Mühlbacher (Oberto), Alex Rosen (Melisso), Valerio Contaldo (Oronte)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
The orchestra plays with fastidious attention to Handel’s ever-changing palette, and its support for the singers – particularly with the obbligatos – is unfailingly sensitive. And the singers... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th February 2024
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[The playing] can affectionately embrace the whimsical to the manner born, but equally bristles with spellbinding virtuosity, compelling insight and crests a lifeforce carrying all before it. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Recording of the Month
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