Browse: New and Future Releases, Early 20th Century
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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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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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Pordoy and Devieilhe both do a wonderful job of emphasising the kinship between Mozart and Strauss’s approach to song-making, bringing an almost Classical clarity and elegance to the earlier... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th March 2024
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Her soprano is in remarkably good shape, supple and elegant, her diction exemplary and her phrasing exquisite, deftly capturing the mood of each song. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Editor's Choice
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Stravinsky: Petrushka & Debussy: Jeux & Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune Orchestre de Paris, Klaus Mäkelä
The headline feature of this terrific Petrushka is characterisation. It’s a performance full of animation and incident and from the Orchestre de Paris and their impressive line-up of wind soloists... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Editor's Choice
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Offer, Britten: Violin Concerto, Chamber Works RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Boris Faust (viola), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Jakub Hrůša
Faust's technical prowess seemingly knows no bounds, and this is very much in evidence here. The double-stopped harmonics at the end of the first movement are notoriously tricky, but such is... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th April 2024
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It feels lived-in, inhabited, and like the recent Ninth blessed by playing from an orchestra which not only shares his vision but brings it off the page with extraordinary artistry. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 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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Baiba Skride plays Benjamin Britten Violin Concerto & Double Concerto
Baiba Skride (violin), ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
The subtlety of her phrasing and range of her tonal palette reveal Skride as a Romantic player of real stature, and in the Prokofiev-like scherzo she’s not afraid to dig in and make less beautiful... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2024, Concerto Choice
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