BBC Proms 2024 - Our Top Related Recordings

'Kanneh-Mason’s interpretation [of the Piano Concerto] is as convincing as any of the nine rivals available...If you buy only one disc of Clara Schumann in her bicentenary year, this is the one to have.' (International Piano)

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Due for release on 9th August.

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'Ogonek may be possessed of a still-developing orchestral imagination but on the evidence of this vivacious, diverting score it is developing in the right direction.' (BBC Music Magazine)

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'It’s [the] sense of life ebbing away that Elder’s beautifully alert but emotionally circumspect performance captures so well...The Hallé’s playing is often magnificent.' (The Times)

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'A mezzo can bring so many colours to the expression, and in that respect Alice Coote matches the previously unsurpassable challenge of Janet Baker with Barbirolli.' (BBC Music Magazine)

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'More memorable than the melodic material itself is the steady accumulation of tension through the ingeniously varied episodes of ‘Earth’, and the soft swell of ‘Sea’ takes over as though van der Heijden had walked down to the shore.' (The Strad)

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'These are thrilling performances of Chopin’s studies, the technique dazzlingly immaculate and the musical impulses propelling it often startlingly original.' (The Guardian)

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'Wildly exuberant, [Masquerade] suited its celebratory purpose to a T – and its live recording does likewise in opening this album of showstopping orchestral works' (BBC Music Magazine)

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'Storgårds has shown his affinity for the composer in every disc of this complete series of the Shostakovich symphonies (still in progress). Here, he does not strive after extremes or try out any special effects: the slow music does not drag and the climaxes are not harrowingly expressionistic.'

View all instalments of Storgårds's ongoing Shostakovich series.

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'John Wilson shows an instinctive flair for Copland's syncopated and changing rhythms, and brings out all the music's broad humour and intimate poetry' (BBC Music Magazine)

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Due for release on 13th September.

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'Musical textures that shimmer, scintillate, explode, darken and extinguish are her bridge between modernism and tradition, and potentially also the listener's path from familiar modes of listening into her fascinating, never vulgarly gratifying, realm of sonic imagination.' (Gramophone Guide)

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'A confident, often brilliant command of the orchestra animates all the works selected for her debut album...From the outset, each piece seizes the initiative and does not let go.'

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Due for release on 9th August.

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'The orchestral sound is vivid...Pappano’s is an impressive achievement, and one I will return to often.' (MusicWebInternational)

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'Barton seems now to be the equal of any dramatic mezzo before the public....These are some of the most beautiful recordings I have ever heard. Anyone who loves the human voice should own this.' (American Record Guide)

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'These readings by the Lahti Symphony and well-regarded Dalia Stasevska could not be bettered for their acuity of insight, aided by analytical sound and Eila Tarasti’s annotations. Whether or not Leiviskä’s time has now come, her music is eminently worth getting to know.' (Gramophone)

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'Kavakos, Ma and Ax play with profound sensitivity throughout, and the symphony’s many magical moments lose next to nothing in translation.' (Gramophone)

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Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)

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'The headline feature of this terrific Petrushka is characterisation. It’s a performance full of animation and incident and from the Orchestre de Paris and their impressive line-up of wind soloists a dancer’s sensibility.' (Gramophone)

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'There’s no doubt that the Munich-based orchestra is among the best in the world today...But what lifts this up among the very best Sixth Symphony recordings is the finale.' (BBC Music Magazine)

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'Find the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy just a little too sweet? Then savour Sugar Rum Cherry, from Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s 1960s jazz reworking of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Suite (1892)...It’s the latest life-enhancing recording from Chineke! Orchestra (Chineke!/Decca) and guaranteed to put a smile on your face.' (The Guardian)

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'Schiff makes a persuasive case, if not a definitive one, for the clavichord as an equally revelatory vehicle for the pieces as harpsichord or piano.' (Sunday Times)

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'As a complete experience the assembled works prove both illuminating and rewarding. While tremendously fresh and vigorous...the gut-and-wood soundworld of Insula is sympathetically at one with Farrenc’s spirited aesthetic.' (BBC Music Magazine)

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'With exemplary recorded sound, Manacorda and his players vividly convey the sheer physicality of Beethoven’s sound world. I also hear countless details in these familiar scores that I’d barely noticed before.' (Gramophone)

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Due for release on 23rd August.

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'Never before has a burn come simply from listening to a vocal recital...you can easily see why she shot to fame at Los Angeles Opera...She’s so sultry, dramatic and spine-tingling.' (The Times)

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'It must be said straight away that Hough sounds the complete insider. He commands the range of the big statements, whatever their character, as well as sparkle and panache, a sense of drama and seemingly inexhaustible stamina.' (Gramophone Guide)

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