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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007
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…what is immediately striking about the present performance is its boldness and originality in terms of tempo contrasts, rhythmic emphasis and textural variety. Not only the playing beyond... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2012, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Best Newcomer
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Sibelius - Orchestral Songs
RecommendedSoile Isokoski (soprano)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
Soile Isokoski's voice has matured into a powerful instrument without losing its distinctively plangent expressiveness and intense way with words… Segerstam… provides spacious yet vividly dramatic... — More…
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Disc of the Year & Vocal Award Winner
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Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony Op. 18
RecommendedChristine Schafer & Matthais Goerne
Orchestra de Paris, Christoph Eschenbach
…Christoph Eschenbach has such an acute feeling for the musical line - whether it is carried by the voices or the orchestra - and such a fine ear for aural perspective, that it all comes together... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2006, Disc of the month
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2006, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Award for Technical Excellence in Recording
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Building A Library, April 2022, Recommended Recording
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…a set to place Enescu among the great piano composers, superbly played and recorded. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, Instrumental Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Instrumental Award Winner
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrumental
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…the Smetana Trio, excellently recorded, deliver landmark performances of both trios. The developmental intensity of the F minor Trio's first movement has rarely seemed more incandescent or... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2006, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Chamber Award Winner
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Koechlin - Vocal Works With Orchestra
RecommendedJuliane Banse (Soprano)
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart SWR, Heinz Holliger
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Premiere Recording Award
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Vivaldi: Griselda, RV718
Recommendedworld première recording
Griselda: Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Costanza: Veronica Cangemi (soprano), Ottone: Simone Kermes (soprano), Roberto: Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Gualtiero: Stefano Ferrari (tenor) & Corrado: Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi
…one of Vivaldi's strongest and most cohesive operas. Jean-Christophe Spinosi's intuitive and vital direction achieves rewarding results. His instrumentalists are first-rate and the choice... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Opera Award Winner
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Special offer. Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
RecommendedSarah Connolly (Cesare), Danielle de Niese (Cleopatra), Angelika Kirchschlager (Sesto), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo), Patricia Bardon (Cornelia), Christopher Maltman (Achilla)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, William Christie (conductor) & David McVicar...
David McVicar's 2005 staging, revived the following summer, provoked a deal of contrasting views among the critical fraternity but was adored by the Glyndebourne public. Chief cause of their... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2006, DVD Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2006, DVD of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, DVD of the Year
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 'Leningrad'
RecommendedRoyal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Orchestral Award Winner
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