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Berlioz: Harold en Italie
RecommendedJames Ehnes (viola), James Ehnes (violin)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Davis and his production team have worked hard to keep James Ehnes's quite ravishingly beautiful playing in focus..It sounds as if Davis sees the work as more lyrical and Romantic...than as... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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The finest of Hummel's Piano Concertos, dynamically projected by the young Stephen Hough. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Winner - Concerto
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Alice Mary Smith - Symphonies
RecommendedAngela Malsbury (clarinet)
London Mozart Players, Howard Shelley
Mendelssohn is clearly the guiding spirit here. But in movements like the delightfully capricious scherzo of the C minor Symphony, and in some of the striking modulations in the outer movements... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Unless it’s my imagination, there’s a magical and deeply touching, almost nostalgic hue to this one, as if enjoying the company of a beloved old friend before parting — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Berg: Violin Concerto, Three Pieces for Orchestra
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Ehnes gives a hauntingly elegiac account of Berg’s Violin Concerto...[He] makes it sound like a requiem not only for Manon Gropius, but also for Berg himself...His mellow tone is ideally captured... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Sibelius: Luonnotar; Tapiola & Spring Song
RecommendedLise Davidsen (soprano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
[Davidsen's] breath control and even fullness of tone across a two-octave range prove radiantly equal to Sibelius’s uncompromising demands. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd July 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Grażyna Bacewicz: Two Piano Quintets, Quartet for four Violins & Quartet for four Cellos
Szymon Krzeszowiec, Krzysztof Lasoń, Małgorzata Wasiucionek, Arkadiusz Kubica, Wojciech Świtała (piano)
Silesian Quartet, Polish Cello Quartet
For those invigorated by the Silesian Quartet’s complete quartet set, here’s an exciting new addition: two piano quintets. They are works of real substance and originality. The First (1952)... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, Chamber Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Chamber
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Nouveauté
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The performances are all superbly judged and controlled, balancing fragility with strength, restraint with great depth of feeling… The early Divertimenti, played with considerable wit and elegance,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Chamber
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As with the series as a whole, the performances are exemplary. Noseda’s familiar combination of rigour and emotional extremism is in evidence throughout...Gillian Keith is the aptly glacial-sounding... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Vaughan Williams: Valiant for Truth, Symphony No. 5, The Pilgrim Pavement & other works
RecommendedCarys Lane (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox Singers, Richard Hickox
This is an exceptionally powerful yet deeply moving account of the Fifth. Aided by glowing, wide-ranging engineering, Hickox's is an urgently communicative reading. The first and third movements... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2003, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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