BBC Music Magazine Awards, Romantic (era)
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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius & Sea Pictures RecommendedStuart Skelton (tenor), Sarah Connolly (mezzo) & David Soar (bass), Sarah Connolly (mezzo)
BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
among the best Gerontius performances on record. Davis resists the temptation to make the work sound like a flabby, imitation Parsifal and the results are outstandingly convincing...[Skelton]... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Choral Award Winner
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Choral
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Brahms & Bruckner: Motets
RecommendedMark Templeton (trombone), Helen Vollam (trombone), Patrick Jackman (trombone), Alexander Mason (organ)
Tenebrae, Nigel Short
Nigel Short and Tenebrae have come up with a beautifully balanced and contrasted programme…The beauty of sound and dignified expression of intensity that Tenebrae create in the opening of the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Choral Winner
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Building a Library, December 2017, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2017, First Choice
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Verdi: Requiem
RecommendedAnja Harteros (soprano), Sonia Ganassi (mezzo), Rolando Villazon (tenor), René Pape (bass)
Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Pappano's conducting maintains a firm control of his forces, showing a sense of drama that includes an awareness of the importance of some crucial moments of silence. Pappano's soloists are... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2009, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Choral Award Winner
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Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem)
RecommendedRobert Murray (tenor)
Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Chetham's School of Music Brass Ensemble, Paul McCreesh
McCreesh provides pretty much the enormous forces Berlioz demands- 60 tenors at least- singing French Latin, as well as mostly original instruments… it’s fascinating. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd October 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2011, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Award for Technical Excellence
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Elgar: The Apostles, Op. 49 RecommendedRebecca Evans (The Angel Gabriel/The Blessed Virgin Mary), Alice Coote (Mary Magdalene/Narrator 2), Paul Groves (Narrator 1/John), Jacques Imbrailo (Jesus), David Kempster (Peter) & Brindley Sherratt (Judas)
Hallé & Hallé Youth Choir & Hallé Choir, Sir Mark Elder
It has all the tension and excitement of live performance, rising to incandescence in the closing pages, and Mark Elder has perfect control of the large forces and dramatic pacing. Brindley... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2012, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Recording of the Year & Choral Award Winner
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Busoni: Piano Concerto
RecommendedRecorded live at Symphony Hall, Boston, MA, March 10-11, 2017
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Sakari Oramo
Gerstein and Oramo are impressive in their focus throughout the work’s opening movement, and the whirl forwards towards its close has a tremendous power to it…As [the slow movement] progresses,... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Concerto
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Winner - Concerto
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Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3 & other works for solo instrument and orchestra Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin) & Heini Kärkkäinen (piano)
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow & Kees Bakels
Right from the opening appassionato phrase on the G string, Jean-Jacques Kantorow goes for broke… Kantorow can be delicate too, while his brisk speeds… ensure that nothing sags - the second... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Concerto
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2007, Editor's Choice
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[Tenebrae's] account of Parry's Songs of Farewell abounds in subtleties of phrasing and telling distinctions of dynamic, yet flows beautifully, the textual narrative unfolding with a rare continuity... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Choral Finalist
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Dausgaard is not the first conductor to use the 1841 version of the D minor Symphony… but… this performance, given by an orchestra of the size of Schumann himself would have known brings it... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Orchestral Finalist
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Brahms: Works for chorus and orchestra
RecommendedAnn Hallenberg (mezzo)
Collegium Vocale Gent & Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
This is one of the most impressive collections of Brahms's shorter chorus-and-orchestra works that's come my way for some time. It's partly because of the particular combination of works...But... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th March 2012
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Choral Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2012, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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