Latest update: Due to disruptions after a recent warehouse move by the UK’s largest music distributor, the supply of various labels including Decca, DG, Sony, and Harmonia Mundi are subject to significant delays. Please continue to order products from these labels, as the situation should be back to normal within the next few weeks. This is affecting all UK music retailers at the present time. If you have any questions please do contact us.
Browse: Presto Recordings of the Year, Schumann (composer)
Return to Presto Recordings of the Year.
-
Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50
RecommendedSally Matthews (Peri), Mark Padmore (narrator), Kate Royal (soprano), Bernarda Fink (alto), Andrew Staples (tenor), Florian Boesch (bass), Soloists from Guildhall School (Quartet)
London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
Vivid detail and clear choral textures come over quite stunningly on both formats, but the Blu-ray has the edge...Sally Matthews doesn't quite catch the ethereal quality Gardiner's Barbara Bonney... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 9th October 2015
-
BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, Choral & Song Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
2 SACDs + Blu-ray Audio
$13.00Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Mendelssohn & Schumann
RecommendedMaria João Pires (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
[Pires] has the enviable ability to make everything sound fresh but natural, and her tone is enchanting...The definition on [the Blu-ray] is superb and the camera work actually helps the viewer... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 20th October 2014
-
Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
-
Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
SACD + Blu-ray Audio
$13.00Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
The persistent ‘Baroque specialist’ label hardly sums up this distinguished French soprano. With her distinctively radiant, secure tone and cut-crystal upper range, her repertoire has always... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
-
Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, Editor's Choice
-
BBC Music Magazine, September 2018, Choral & Song Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
-
Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Mélodie
-
Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Nouveauté
CD + Book
$16.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Offer,
Dvorak & Schumann: Piano Concertos RecommendedStephen Hough (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Hough joins forces with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons for a robust, grand reading that nonetheless leaves room for lyricism and introspection…[but it's in the Dvorak]... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 1st April 2016
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
CD
Original price ($15.50) Reduced price $11.75Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Lieder: Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (bass-baritone), Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Goerne and the equally probing Daniil Trifonov – a true conversational partner – seem to conceive the whole programme as a brooding mega-cycle on the human condition. — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Editor's Choice, June 2022
-
Gramophone Magazine, October 2022, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
CD
$14.75Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Schumann: Konzertstück for four horns
RecommendedMarkus Maskuniitty (horn), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
The playing of Maskuniitty and his three colleagues is simply superb, with exemplary balance between them and the thrilling arpeggio swoops in the last movement. — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Editor's Choice, April 2019
-
BBC Music Magazine, July 2019, Concerto Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Concerto
CD
$14.75Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Both in his musical and literary responses, Christian Gerhaher leaves nothing unquestioned. Each word is weighed. Each note calibrated. Yet for all that, seemingly spontaneous and instinctive,... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
-
Presto Editor's Choice, November 2018
-
Gramophone Magazine, February 2019
-
BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, Recording of the Month
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Male Singer of the Year
-
Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Solo Vocal
CD
$15.50Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Rattle’s deft, beautifully nuanced readings have none of the plush upholstery that once characterised the Berliners’ Schumann, and yet it’s impossible to listen to these performances without... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 19th May 2014
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
2 CDs + Blu-ray
$56.50 -
-
For the Love of Brahms
RecommendedJoshua Bell (violin) & Steven Isserlis (cello), Jeremy Denk (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Here’s an unconducted Double Concerto transformed into pure chamber music, in which two old friends spar amicably with the lithe support of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. There’s an... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
CD
$15.50Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
There has never been a Schumann collection from a single singer to rival this one, and the choice of Gerhaher was an inspired one. He has made an important contribution to Schumann scholarship,... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
-
Gramophone Magazine, October 2021, Editor's Choice
-
Diapason d’Or, November 2021, Nouveauté
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, Complete Edition of the Year
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Vocal
-
Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Solo Vocal Recording
-
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Song
11 CDs
$89.25 -
