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Infinite Voyage
RecommendedBarbara Hannigan (soprano), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
Emerson String Quartet
Much the finest experience comes in Schoenberg’s quartet, where the Emerson Quartet ’s playing masterfully combines forensic technical precision and expressive warmth. And Hannigan’s identif... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th September 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques, Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major, Schoenberg: Piano Concerto RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi, Orchestre de La Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott
You have to envy the citizens of Geneva...Add a pianist in Francesco Piemontesi’s class, and here are stellar interpretations of three very different concerto-type works, ordered into a journey... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th July 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Schoenberg: Transfigured Night & Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 RecommendedAlisa Weilerstein (cello)
Trondheim Soloists
In performances of such freshness, verve and chamber transparency, the concept works...You’d go far to find performances of the Haydn concertos that match Alisa Weilerstein’s mix of stylistic... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th August 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder RecommendedAlwyn Mellor (soprano), Anna Larsson (mezzo-soprano), Stuart Skelton (tenor), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (tenor), James Creswell (bass) & Sir Thomas Allen (speaker)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Edward Gardner
The hero is Edward Gardner, under whose wonderfully flexible beat this hyper-Romantic music positively breathes in long lyrical phrases and paragraphs. Nor are the excitements lacking: the coda... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2017, Also Recommended
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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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Schoenberg: Violin Concerto & Verklärte Nacht
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
The secret of her success lies in her ability to bring an immense amount of poetry and fantasy to the immensely complex solo part…As a result, the listener gets drawn into the drama of the musical... — More…
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Record Review, 29th February 2020, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite & Schoenberg: Pelléas & Mélisande RecommendedOrchestre de La Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott
Nott’s orchestral suite arranged from Debussy’s opera is both substantial and imaginatively devised... it is played here with a consistent loveliness that absorbs and appeals in its own right. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th November 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin/sprechgesang), Meesun Hong (violin), Julia Gallego (flute), Reto Bieri (clarinet), Thomas Kaufmann (cello), Joonas Ahonen (piano), Marko Milenkovic (viola)
Kopatchinskaja’s approach – sharp-focus, hyper-detailed and searching out over-the-top extremes of vocal delivery – is remarkable in its way...The upside is the superlatively precise and stylish... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Hannigan’s luminous voice perfectly suits this music. She conveys the uneasy, almost unhinged feel of the fin de siècle not only in her lyric singing, but also in her crooning, swopping, sliding,... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Juno Awards, 2019, Classical Album of the Year - Vocal or Choral
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