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Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra make a convincing case for this sometimes disorientating piece [Suite No. 1], with plenty of drive and contrast, plus consistently well-defined... — More…
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Lalo & Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos
RecommendedPeter Wispelwey (cello)
Flanders Symphony Orchestra, Seiko Kim
It says much for the Saint-Saens concerto that it stands up well to such inspired competition. — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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The Kreutzer Sonata is placed first, so we hear James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong presenting their credentials in turn – Ehnes with effortless accurate double stops, and Armstrong picking up... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Elgar: Sea Pictures & The Music Makers
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Petrenko’s The Music Makers makes a compelling case for a work often dismissed as navel-gazing, second-rate Elgar…The Liverpool choir is excellent throughout…Rudge sings the solo part with ripe-toned... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Editor's Choice
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Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite No. 2 & Hungarian Peasant Songs
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard
Dausgaard exhorts the BBCSSO to milk the music for its intensity, conjuring a suitably claustrophobic and lurid setting...In general the transition moments are well handled and Dausgaard carries... — More…
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Kovacevich brings penetrating insight and a thrilling physical involvement. From the outset there is a driving momentum and crispness of articulation, and the bristling energy of so many variations... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Instrumental Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2009, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Editor's Choice
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[Petrenko’s love for Elgar] can be felt throughout this performance too: in the sumptuous but textured orchestral sound (beautifully recorded), in the attentive phrasing and in the power of... — More…
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Record Review, 8th April 2017, Recording of the Week
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These highly sophisticated readings recall a time when quartet ensembles tended more towards tonal matching than linear independence. Miraculously, James Ehnes’s gloriously radiant sound is... — More…
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Record Review, 11th June 2022, Record of the Week
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…Christianne Stotijn is that artist in a thousand whose personality shines through everything she does. Her Russian characterisations and folk inflections seem spot-on in the vivid narratives... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2009, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Vocal Award Winner
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