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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 RecommendedGalina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Simon Preston (organ)
London Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Highgate School Choir & The Bach Choir, Benjamin Britten
Britten was writing personally for three muses who had all shared the wartime experience...His incandescent commitment to pacificism and horror at the failure of humanism blazes forth...As you... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2009, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Max Bruch & Florence Price: Violin Concertos RecommendedRandall Goosby (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
There’s much to admire in Randall Goosby’s debut concerto recording. This star pupil of Itzhak Perlman possesses a beautifully warm and tender sound, as well as delivering technically immaculate... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2023
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Lise Davidsen sings Wagner and Strauss RecommendedLise Davidsen (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Davidsen is no ordinary singer. Throughout the whole album one marvels at the voice, its easy grandeur and sheer size, its steely focus and security… The timbre has a default cool beauty but... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st May 2019
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Record Review, 8th June 2019, Record of the Week
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Diapason d’Or, Summer Issue 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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Overall, what leaps out is the sheer quality, consistency and stylishness of Janine Jansen’s playing. She conjures up the mood of each piece with seemingly effortless and flawless technique...Pappano... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th September 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Stravinsky: Pétrouchka & Debussy: Jeux & Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune Orchestre de Paris, Klaus Mäkelä
I was particularly impressed with the gorgeous timbres of Mäkelä’s wonderfully evocative account of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, and the performance of the incredibly subtle... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, Orchestral Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' RecommendedHeather Harper, Lucia Popp, Arleen Auger (sopranos), Yvonne Minton (mezzo), Helen Watts (contralto), Rene Kollo (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Martti Talvela (bass)
Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Singverein, Wiener Sängerknaben & Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
Now at last Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand can be heard on record at something approaching its full, expansive stature. Here is a version from Solti which ... conveys the feeling of a great... — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Grammy Awards, 15th Awards (1972), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 15th Awards (1972), Classical Album of the Year
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[Firebird] It would be hard to deny Mäkelä his place in the top tier. He creates a vibrant mood in every episode, even the ones that fill in while pantomime takes place onstage in Fokine’s fairy-tale... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Florence Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement & Symphony No. 1 RecommendedJeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano), Chineke!, Leslie Suganandarajah, Roderick Cox
Under Roderick Cox, the orchestra gives a high-octane account [of the Symphony] with a wealth of drama and excitement and a palpable sense of mission...[Kanneh-Mason] performs [the Concerto]... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd June 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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Freddie De Tommaso - Passione RecommendedFreddie De Tommaso (tenor), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Renato Balsadonna
Listen to Freddie De Tommaso at full throttle and you’ll need to lie down in a darkened room. Passione is singing in the tradition of De Tommaso’s hero Franco Corelli: stylish and heartfelt,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd April 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Newcomer
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The playing here, disarmingly gentle yet tonally seductive, has a songful use of vibrato that recalls the expressive manners of Pierre Fournier and du Pré herself…A most rewarding CD then, sure... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Newcomer (cello)
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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