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Thomas Adès: Dante
RecommendedLos Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gustavo Dudamel
Adès takes Liszt’s legacy of demonic harmony and develops it further away some of the orchestral layers to reveal recorded voices from the congregation at the Great Ades Synagogue in Jerusalem,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st April 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, Orchestral Choice
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Winner - Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Adès Conducts Adès
RecommendedMark Stone (baritone), Kirill Gerstein (piano), Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Adès
[The Piano Concerto] is immediately compelling, conducted here by the composer with pianist Kirill Gerstein, who inspired it, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who then commissioned it, raucous... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th March 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2020, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, May 2020, Nouveauté
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Contemporary
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2020
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Compendium
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Composition
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Rachmaninov Variations
RecommendedDaniil Trifonov (piano)
Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
the Philadelphians under Yannick Nézet-Séguin provide sterling support for Trifonov's stunning pyrotechnics. There are also moments of magical repose, Trifonov achieving astonishing beauty of... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2015, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Concerto
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Aaron Jay Kernis & James Newton Howard: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano)
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot, Cristian Măcelaru
This disc showcases three commissions aimed squarely at the Canadian virtuoso’s dazzling skillset. At the centre is a concerto by James Newton Howard…The work is lyrical, wildly cavorting and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Concerto Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Classical Instrumental Solo
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Contemporary Classical Composition
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Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Concerto No. 5, Concerto Op. 104 & Sinfonietta Op. 49
Frank Dupree (piano), Adrian Brendle (piano), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Dominik Beykirch
This is not the first recording [of Concerto No. 5], though the only other version – performed by Masahiro Kawakami (on Exton) – is hard to purchase outside Japan. In any case, this new recording... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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John Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Selected Film Themes
RecommendedAnne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams
It’s a hugely expressive, deeply atmospheric four-movement work and, like all his concertos, quite far removed from the thematic narrative music we’re all so familiar with. That’s not to say... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd June 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Spatial Audio
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Engineered Album, Classical
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Insturmentalist of the Year
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Kapustin: Piano Concerto No. 4, Concerto for Violin & Piano & Chamber Symphony
Frank Dupree (piano/conductor), Rosanne Philippens (violin), Wurttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn
Sitting across the gap between classical and jazz, Kapustin’s Concerto for Piano and Violin is largely bluesy in feel, while the Fourth Piano Concerto almost has a touch of rock about it. In... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Concerto
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Maconchy, Lutyens & Wallen: Works for Piano and Orchestra RecommendedMartin Jones (piano), Rebeca Omordia (piano), BBC Concert Orchestra, John Andrews
All the pieces are premieres on disc – and they are discoveries you’ll want to hear many times again. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - World Premiere Recording (New Work)
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Premiere
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Birtwistle: Night’s Black Bird RecommendedOwen Slade (tuba)
The Hallé Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth
these are among the most powerful orchestral pieces of recent years...Wigglesworth and the Halle give performances of amazing concentration, accuracy and passion, aided by recorded sound of a... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Contemporary
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Premiere Recording of the Year
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Capuçon throws down the gauntlet with a searingly intense performance of Tabula rasa (1977). The playing is impeccably controlled yet fiercely expressive…Throughout the album, Capuçon reveals... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Concerto
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