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Mason Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
RecommendedEdwards Parks (Steve Jobs), Garrett Sorenson (Steve Wozniak), Sasha Cooke (Laurene), Jessica E. Jones (Chrisann), Wei Wu (Kōbun Chino Otogawa); Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, Michael Christie
Bates’s vocal writing can be taxing, though its challenges are all wonderfully met in the recording…Edward Parks gives a terrific central performance as Jobs, capturing both this charisma and... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Opera Recording
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Ombra Compagna - Mozart Concert Arias
RecommendedLisette Oropesa (soprano)
Il Pomo d'Oro, Antonello Manacorda
Oropesa sings with exquisite emotional restraint, subtly shading her vibrato and colouring her mezzo range with a Schwarzkopf-like radiance and intensity.- — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th May 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Strauss, R: Salome
Emily Magee (Salome), Wolfgang Koch (Jochanaan), Michaela Schuster (Herodias), Peter Bronder (Herodes), Benjamin Bruns (Narraboth)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Andres Orozco-Estrada
What we gain here in exemplary clarity of Strauss’s sonic spider-web we lose in momentum for, say, the climactic welter which ends in Jokanaan’s curse…Magee as the spoiled princess propels the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Opera
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Corti brings out a wealth of felicitous detail in the a wealth of felicitous detail in the solo keyboard writing, generously solo keyboard writing, generously adding tasteful ornaments if too... — More…
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Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: Works for Cello and Piano
RecommendedJohannes Moser (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano)
Johannes Moser and Alasdair Beatson offer fine, full-blooded performances of all this repertoire. Beatson uses an Érard piano from 1837…allowing for maximum clarity and lightness in rapid passagework,... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The period instruments bring a litheness and transparency, with vigour in the third movement allegro molto [in No. 5], the more pastorally phrased interlude liltingly done by the B’Rock, before... — More…
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Record Review, 21st August 2021, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Blomstedt’s attention to detail is admirable, and his performances are wonderfully controlled. Perhaps the Symphony’s slow movement lingers a little more than necessary, but the orchestral playing... — More…
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Mozart: Sinfonia concertante, Rondo for violin & Concertone in C
RecommendedJulia Fischer & Gordon Nikolic (violins)
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg
Listen to the start of the great Sinfonia Concertante, here replete with an energy which doesn't preclude sensitivity of phrasing or detail of instrumental colour. …Fischer and Nikolic emerge... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Those expecting provocative speeds and micromanaged detail from Jacobs might be surprised at the centrality of his reading. — More…
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