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Susanne Heinrich rises ably to the challenge of understanding this 18th-century Jekyll-and-Hyde figure, heightening to fine effect the music's light and shade, energy and indolence. Her readings... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Editor's Choice
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What comes across most winningly is the ebb and flow of the work: the more inward passages are allowed to breathe; the extrovert ones are absolutely fiery. It's not a work that could ever be... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Time and again there were details that tickled the ear with their freshness, revealing as if for the first time the anarchic brilliance of Debussy’s vision. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2023, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge & other songs
Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Timothy Ridout (viola)
Piatti Quartet
The famous cycle On Wenlock Edge (1909) has of ten been recorded, but this is a fine rendering with ‘Bredon Hill’ providing some particularly sublime moments. As always Julius Drake’s accompanying... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Song
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Tippett - The complete music for piano
Steven Osborne (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
This splendid double album… assembles all Tippett's music for piano whether solo of with orchestra, in performances that impressively set new standards in these often challenging works. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Instrumental Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Concerto
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, Instrumental Choice
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gugnin rivets us in orchestral-sounding climaxes…and the metaphysical twilight zones in between…Gugnin finds surprising poetry in the music...[The Limpid Stream] requires only poetic sensibility,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Solo Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Instrumental
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Tavener: No longer mourn for me & other works for cello
Steven Isserlis (cello), Matthew Rose (bass), Abi Sampa (vocals)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Trinity Boys Choir, Omer Meir Wellber
These are among Tavener’s most powerful works. They are magnificently performed. Those simple points could easily be lost in the necessity of charting not just the diverse range of music and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winer - Premiere Award
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Well, the Florestan Trio have done it again – a sure-fire Gramophone Award nominee. Indeed, such is the cumulative emotional impact of these performances that tears welled up during the wonderful... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2006, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Abbess Hildegard of Bingen - A feather on the breath of God RecommendedEmma Kirkby (soprano)
Gothic Voices, Christopher Page
Gothic Voices chose to perform the hymns and sequences with great simplicity, alternating a single voice with unison voices over drones. Bingen's spellbinding melodies are clear and meditative,... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2016, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Awards, 1982/3, Winner - Early Music (Medieval and Renaissance)
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Clarinet Quintet
RecommendedThea King (basset clarinet)
English Chamber Orchestra, Gabreili String Quartet, Jeffrey Tate
The two works on this disc represent Mozart's clarinet writing at its most inspired; however, the instrument for which they were written differed in several respects from the modern clarinet,... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2006, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2019, Also Recommended
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