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What [Grieg] does with folk material is so enchanting that, in this beautiful incarnation with the Bergen players delivering so freshly and responding so well to Gardner’s rhythmic drive in... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Orchestral Choice
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This disc reveals much of interest to explore beyond the familiar items. Feérique sparkles, and the symphonic suite Paris finds Ibert at his most inventive, mixing jazzy playfulness with suave... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Mozart: Piano Concertos, Volume 4
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy
This is altogether a really fine performance…Bavouzet uses the ubiquitous Beethoven cadenzas for K466, while for its C major companion-piece K467 he opts for the examples by Friedrich Gulda,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Concerto
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From the wonderful lyrical springboard opening right through to the final slow fade there’s a singing line that rises, falls and snakes its way through everything…The Serenade for Strings here... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Britten: Violin Concerto & Piano Concerto
RecommendedTasmin Little (violin), Howard Shelley (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner
Shelley and Edward Gardner create something more mercurial [than Britten's own reading], Gardner conjuring that lithe, high-tension drama he has so successfully achieved with Britten's stage... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, Disc of the Month
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Building a Library, March 2018, Also recommended
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New,
Grażyna Bacewicz; Eugène Ysaÿe; George Enescu: Music For Strings Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
At its centre [the Bacewicz] is a searing slow movement, rich and haunting, but the rest of the work crackles with energy, and the Sinfonia of London (at times divided into 17 parts) under John... — More…
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as their wonderfully vivid performances attest, these are all first-rate pieces deserving a firm place in the repertoire…this is a disc to cherish, — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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These militant, tightly controlled, sometimes breathtaking performances demand to be heard and may divide opinion. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Busoni: Toccata, BV 287, Elegien, BV 252, Sonatina No. 6, BV 284 & Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BV B 29 No. 1
RecommendedPeter Donohoe (piano)
if some of the works here make uncomfortable listening – despite Donohoe’s keyboard brilliance – that is because Busoni himself disdained aural comfort...But the Toccata BV 29, being a transcription... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th August 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Sibelius: In the Stream of Life
RecommendedSongs by Sibelius
Gerald Finley (bass-baritone)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
a highly memorable disc. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th December 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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