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Bělohlávek clearly knew that Smetana, far from being a cheap purveyor of catchy melodies and moment-to-moment thrills, was a sure-footed musical architect, and this recording pays the long game…It... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Record Review, 6th January 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Building A Library, May 2021, Also Recommended
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Bach - Motets RecommendedYukari Nonoshita & Aki Matsui (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Satoshi Mizukoshi (tenor) & Dominik Wörner (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
The performance is, as you'd now expect from [Suzuki's] Collegium, excellent. Voices range from delicate soloists to a splendidly light and transparent 18-strong chorus. Instrumental support... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Choral Award Winner
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2010, Winner - Musique Chorale
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Building A Library, May 2021, Recommended Recording
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This recording captures all the fiery wit of orchestral-soloist banter. — More…
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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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Shostakovich / Shchedrin - Piano Concertos
RecommendedMarc-André Hamelin (piano), Mark O’Keefe (trumpet)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Marc-André Hamelin is a superb advocate for all three pieces - the zip and zest of much of the writing presenting no difficulty to this extraordinary virtuoso. — More…
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Building A Library, May 2021, Also Recommended - Piano Concerto No. 2
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It is not hard to imagine what music portraying such a story meant to the oppressed people at that concert in 1939 and after having already burst into wild applause at the end of each poem the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th December 2011
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Special Award
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Building A Library, May 2021, Also Recommended
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Fey has form for his previous heavy-handed telling of Haydn's jokes but, mirabile dictu, he plays this one pretty much straight...just about the best offering yet in this occasionally exasperating... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th March 2012
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Building A Library, May 2021, Also Recommended - Oxford Symphony
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Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedBoris Giltburg (piano), Rhys Owens (trumpet)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Boris Giltburg and Vasily Petrenko are a tight unit, the pianist’s dashing virtuosity and subtlety of touch matched by equally incisive interpolations from the orchestra — More…
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Building A Library, May 2021, Recommended Recording - Piano Concerto No. 2
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The trump card of this [performance], given at last year's Prague Spring Festival, is its superlative but modest orchestral line-up, showing you don't need big symphonic forces for the music's... — More…
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Building A Library, May 2021, Recommended Recording
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Building A Library, May 2021, Recommended Recording - Oxford Symphony
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