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Abbado in Lucerne radiates clarity, wisdom and vision, qualities that over the years one had come to expect of him. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2014
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Orchestral Award Winner
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Symphonic Music
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Joyce DiDonato: Stella di Napoli
RecommendedBel Canto Arias
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon, Riccardo Minasi
everyone who cares about singing should promote it immediately to the top of their letters to Santa. Creamy, sumptuous, almost flawless - every adjective may be a cliché, but how else to describe... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th August 2014
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Vocal Award Winner
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Recital
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Récital lyrique
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Vocal Recital
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Beethoven: Piano Trios Nos. 6 & 7
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexander Melnikov (Graff fortepiano)
Melnikov works wonders with his 1828 Graff piano, managing to make it less clattery and more piano-like than in most other fortepiano recordings. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Chamber Award Winner
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2014, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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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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Esfahani's at his most expressive in the slow movements...This, his first solo disc, provides a particularly welcome introduction onto the world stage for an artist matching, in expression CPE... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Newcomer Award
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Unsuk Chin: Three Concertos
RecommendedWorld Premiere Recordings
Sunwook Kim (piano), Alban Gerhardt (cello), Wu Wei (sheng)
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung
Chin is one of the best contemporary exponents of purely instrumental music drama, and these concertos provide absorbing listening...The music inevitably acquires a ritualistic aura but there... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Premiere Winner
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Contemporary
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Contemporary Music
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Leif Ove Andsnes: The Beethoven Journey (Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4)
RecommendedLeif Ove Andsnes (piano & direction)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
an effortlessly musical performance, helped by the immaculate playing of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. And, as in the first disc of the series, Andsnes's attention to orchestral detail while... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Disc of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Concerto
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Becoming Traviata
RecommendedA film by Philippe Béziat from Verdi's Opera
Natalie Dessay (Violetta), Charles Castronovo (Alfredo), Ludovic Tézier (Germont), Jean-François Sivadier (director)
London Symphony Orchestra, Louis Langrée
the film is as much about how our relationship to this most famous opera changes with each encounter as it is about the process by which [Dessay] assumes the central role...Some will accuse Béziat... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, DVD Award Winner
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, Opera Choice
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Leif Ove Andsnes: The Beethoven Journey (Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5)
RecommendedLeif Ove Andsnes (piano & direction)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Choir
One of the pleasures of these splendid performances is the rapport between the soloist/conductor and his musicians. They play as one. Another is the clarity of texture and the variety and sensitivity... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Disc of the Year
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