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All four soloists dig into the virtuosic writing with glee – Peter Whelan’s pyrotechnics in the Bassoon Concerto are little short of astonishing, and Franco-Italian mezzo Lea Desandre rivals... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Winner - Assorted Program
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Schubert: Death and the Maiden
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
This must have been an enthralling concert. It’s almost impossible to imagine Schubert’s Death and the Maiden in a string orchestral arrangement better played, with Kopatchinskaja a dynamic... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Niquet appropriately creates a liturgical framework, weaving plainchant, motets and instrumental items around the main work; these also serve to contrast with and complement the sometimes gluttonously... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2018, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
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The centrepiece is the great B minor Sonata. This is an assured, confident reading that it would be easy to dismiss as ‘just another B minor’, but listen to the careful way in which Goerner... — More…
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Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy! Golda Schultz (soprano), Antonello Manacorda, Kammerakademie Potsdam with Julie Roset, Amitai Pati, Ashley Dixon Santelli, Milan Siljanov, Simone Easthope
She is a classy Mozartian and imbues each of her arias with character, pathos and purity of line. Her timbre is velvety, but there’s plenty of attack in fearsomely taxing arias such as Anna’s... — More…
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5
Martin Helmchen (piano)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Andrew Manze
Helmchen really brings out the different approaches Beethoven took in these concertos. A sturdy, reliable recording of two great works. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Beethoven250 Award
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What makes these performances special is Antonini’s knack for subtly drawing attention to Haydn’s powers of harmonic and rhythmic invention: the development sections of the sonata-form movements... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th June 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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An often feisty recital of operatically-influenced 17th and 18th century sacred music intercut with instrumental items by Dantone’s firebrand ensemble. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Recital
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Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 & King Christian II Suite
RecommendedGothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali
The evidence here is of a serious artist, with a strikingly individual, but in no way contentious view of Sibelius’s much-performed symphony. The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra must have played... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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