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Francisco Coll: Violin Concerto and other works
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Orchestre Philharmonique Du Luxembourg, Gustavo Gimeno
His Violin Concerto’s three movements...typify his delight in bringing extremes of expression within often terrifyingly close proximity, and is thrillingly realised by Patricia Kopatchinskaja,... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Contemporary
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Contemporary
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 6; Steven Stucky: Silent Spring
RecommendedPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
The energy in the Peasants’ Merrymaking and Storm is fiercely controlled, and the final Thanksgiving, if also on the fast side, moves steadily towards its conclusion, with colourful sonorities... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2022, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Engineered Album, Classical
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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The music fair kidnaps the listener's attention at the outset and does not random it until the gripping, wholly satisfying close...The performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales is stunning... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Contemporary
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Missy Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright
RecommendedPeter Herresthal (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, James Gaffigan, Arctic Philharmonic, Tim Weiss
The orchestras here hail from Norway, where their own experience of dark light perhaps enables their instinctive response to Mazzoli’s arresting blend of apparent opposites. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Classical Compendium
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Contemporary Classical Composition (Dark With Excessive Bright)
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Premiere
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Kenneth Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 RecommendedAdam Walker (flute), Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Conductor John Wilson and his colleagues in the Sinfonia of London do a masterful job of bringing these recorded premieres to what I hope will be a wide audience, and I shall greatly be anticipating... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th July 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Maxwell Davies & Panufnik: Symphonies No. 10 RecommendedMarkus Butter (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sir Antonio Pappano
Highly charged fervour animates the symphony’s discourse on creativity. — More…
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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The sounds Abrahamsen craves, white and translucent across a large range of actual expression, hugely complex on the page but delectably simple to the ear, are exceptionally realised and recorded... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Contemporary
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Jarrell: Émergences-Résurgences
Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Pascal Rophé
Two recent concertos – one for viola, one violin – by Swiss composer Michael Jarrell are each performed here by their dedicatees. His writing is spiky, full of demanding technicality from its... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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Brahms: Symphony No.4 & MacMillan: Larghetto for Orchestra
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
In this outstanding performance of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, Manfred Honeck draws a wonderfully rich, almost Central European string sound from the Pittsburgh Symphony, matched by equally mellifluous... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Offer, Maurice Ravel, Lennox Berkeley & Adam Pounds: Orchestral Works Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
The finale [of the Pounds] projects a mood of hard-won defiance, and the symphony as a whole is certainly worth experiencing – especially in a performance as scrupulously prepared and committed... — More…
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