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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 5
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Alive and articulate, these three performances remind us that it’s just as possible to be stunned by an original interpretation of a familiar symphony (the Fifth) as it is to be refreshed by... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th June 2016
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Recording of the Year/Orchestral Winner
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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This recording captures all the fiery wit of orchestral-soloist banter. —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Concerto Winner
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Building A Library, May 2021, Recommended Recording - A Major Concerto
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Martinu: The Complete Piano Trios
RecommendedRecorded at the Martínek Studio, Prague, between May 2015 and January 2016
Smetana Trio: Jitka Čechová (piano), Jiří Vodička (violin) & Jan Páleníček (cello)
it's already obvious that the music for piano trio performed here by the Smetana Trio is going straight on the shortlist for 2016. Martinu's chamber music reveals originality at every turn;... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Chamber Winner
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2016, Disc of the month
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Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
[the Prokofiev] presents formidable technical challenges, all of which are surmounted almost with nonchalance, the pianist's focus resolutely serving the score, not the mechanisms involved in... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Berg: Wozzeck
RecommendedChristian Gerhaher (Wozzeck), Brandon Jovanovich (Drum Major), Mauro Peter (Andres), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Captain), Lars Woldt (Doctor) & Gun-Brit Barkmin (Marie)
Chor der Oper Zurich & Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Andreas Homoki (stage director)
While the Lieder-like beauty of Gerhaher’s singing Is matchless – he can act too – this is no star vehicle. It is ensemble work of the highest order…the relationships are brilliantly drawn,... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, DVD/Blu-ray Winner
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Opera
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Video Performance
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedDimitris Tiliakos (Don Giovanni), Vito Priante (Leporello), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Donna Anna), Kenneth Tarver (Don Ottavio), Karina Gauvin (Donna Elvira), Guido Loconsolo (Masetto), Christina Gansch (Zerlina), Mika Kares (Il Commendatore)
MusicAeterna & MusicAeterna Choir, Teodor Currentzis
[this Don Giovanni] strips away many of our distorting performance habits, and the result is refreshing, revelatory and unsettling…Tiliakos is a dramatic Don…Loconsolo is vocally nimble and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th December 2016
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Opera Winner
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Esfahani's contributions are the extraordinary range and delicacy of his touch and his scrupulous attention to matching phrasing. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th August 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, Instrumental Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Instrumental Winner
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Baroque Instrumental
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Berio: Sinfonia & Berio/Mahler: Frühe Lieder
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Synergy Vocals, Josep Pons
We have only to listen to [Berio’s] exquisite song orchestrations, graced with Goerne on riveting, vibrant form, to feel the depth of his empathy, an almost palpable longing to be absorbed into... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th September 2016
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Vocal Winner
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Berg: Wozzeck
RecommendedChristian Gerhaher (Wozzeck), Brandon Jovanovich (Drum Major), Mauro Peter (Andres), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Captain), Lars Woldt (Doctor) & Gun-Brit Barkmin (Marie)
Chor der Oper Zurich & Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Andreas Homoki (stage director)
While the Lieder-like beauty of Gerhaher’s singing Is matchless – he can act too – this is no star vehicle. It is ensemble work of the highest order…the relationships are brilliantly drawn,... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, DVD/Blu-ray Winner
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Opera
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Video Performance
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Julian Anderson: In lieblicher Bläue, Alleluia, The Stations of the Sun
RecommendedCarolin Widmann (violin)
London Philharmonic Choir & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Carolin Widman is superb as the often diaphanous, yet frequently impulsive soloist negotiating an uneasy relationship with the orchestra in this recording of the world premiere. Vladimir Jurowski... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Premiere Winner
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Concerto
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