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Grammy Awards, Contemporary (era)
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Special offer. John Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Selected Film Themes
RecommendedAnne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams
It’s a hugely expressive, deeply atmospheric four-movement work and, like all his concertos, quite far removed from the thematic narrative music we’re all so familiar with. That’s not to say... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd June 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Spatial Audio
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Engineered Album, Classical
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Insturmentalist of the Year
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For all its beauty, the album also feels like a call to action. The horrors of racial violence cannot be separated from this repertoire, and a sense of urgent injustice is brought home by these... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, Debut Solo Album
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Classical Without Borders
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Special offer. Jennifer Higdon: All Things Majestic
RecommendedRoberto Díaz (viola), James Button (oboe)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
[All Things Majestic] The piece conveys a marvellous sense of wonder in the vastness and minutiae of the natural world, from the soaring brass chorales of 'Teton Ridge' to the raindrop delicacy... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Classical Compendium
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Special offer. Sofia Gubaidulina: Dialog: Ich und Du, The Wrath of God & The Light of the End
RecommendedGewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
Full marks to Deutsche Grammophon for standing alone among the bigname companies in documenting one of the most important musical voices of our age. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, World Premiere Recording of the Year (New Music)
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Special offer. Rouse: Symphony No. 5, Supplica & Concerto for Orchestra
RecommendedNashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero
One of Rouse’s first musical loves was Beethoven, and he turns to the German’s iconic Fifth Symphony in a homage that radiates joy in invention…Not just Beethoven, but Nielsen and Copland are... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2020), Winner - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Special offer. Schnittke: Choir Concerto
RecommendedEstonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Kaspars Putnins
Even by their standards, the choir are on blindingly good form in Schnittke’s monumental Choir Concerto. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Choral Performance
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Musique chorale
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Choral
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Special offer. Arvo Pärt: Adam’s Lament
RecommendedTui Hirv (soprano) & Rainer Vilu (baritone)
Latvian Radio Choir, Vox Clamantis, Riga Sinfonietta, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tonu Kaljuste
Adam's Lament serves as a summary of Pärt's evolution since he abandoned Modernist tendencies...The Radio Choir and Vox Clamantis affectingly convey anguished hopes for redemption while maintaining... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, Disc of the month
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Grammy Awards, 56th Awards (2013), Best Choral Performance
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Thomas Adès: Dante
RecommendedLos Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gustavo Dudamel
Adès takes Liszt’s legacy of demonic harmony and develops it further away some of the orchestral layers to reveal recorded voices from the congregation at the Great Ades Synagogue in Jerusalem,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st April 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, Orchestral Choice
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Winner - Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Special offer. John Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance
RecommendedORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
In every respect, this disc is a must for all fans of John Adams and Marin Alsop. The performances and recording are terrific, and the programme provides a good range of the composer’s style…... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Orchestral Performance
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Special offer. Jake Heggie: Intelligence
RecommendedJanai Brugger (Mary Jane Bowser), J'Nai Bridges (Lucinda), Jamie Barton (Elizabeth Van Lew), Caitlin Lynch (Callie Van Lew), Michael Mayes (Travis Briggs), Nicholas Newton (Henry), Joshua Blue (Wilson)
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Kwamé Ryan
Heggie is a master of music-drama, with a gift for setting words and a musical style that borrows Barber's unabashed lyricism and the brash rhythmic drive of Bernstein. But in Intelligence,... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Opera Recording
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025, World Premiere Recording (New Work)
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