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Shibe performs with superb artistry some of the now classics that Bream inspired...Prime in any such catalogue is Britten's 1963 Nocturnal after John Dowland, and Shibe gathers the listener into... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Instrumental
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Walton: Symphony No. 1 & Violin Concerto RecommendedTasmin Little (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Little's way with the virtuoso passages is a notch less headlong than [on her earlier recording], allowing the ear to savour her phenomenal accuracy, yet with no loss of fire...Gardner and the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st April 2014
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Building A Library, July 2022, Also Recommended
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Elgar & Walton: Cello Concertos RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
This mesmerising meditation couldn't be in better hands — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th February 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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An English Coronation, 1902-1953
RecommendedEdward VII, George V, George VI, Elizabeth II
Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh
Some may find the extensive spoken liturgy excessive but such is Simon Russell Beale’s compelling delivery that the sheer beauty of the words offers a musical diversion of a different kind. Most... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Choral
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Walton: Symphony No. 2 & Cello Concerto RecommendedPaul Watkins (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
If a new Walton release can finally put paid to the notion that his music somehow 'went off' after his move to the Italian island of Ischia in 1956, then this must be it. And the performances... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2015, First Choice
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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One notoriously tricky passage after another…is brought off with top-flight panache and accuracy…Brilliant precision in the Scherzo, successful avoidance of over-emotive juice-extraction in the... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Building A Library, July 2022, Also Recommended
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The British Project
RecommendedElgar - Britten - Walton - Vaughan Williams
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Gražinytė-Tyla brings a fresheared approach to four English masters of orchestral writing…The Fantasia, rapt and mysterious, receives the most successful performance. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th August 2021
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Record Review, 7th August 2021, Record of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Walton: Viola Concerto, Partita for Orchestra & Sonata for String Orchestra RecommendedJames Ehnes (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Ehnes, long established as one of the world’s leading violinists, doesn’t offer the same hefty, almost cello-like weight of tone on the viola as some of his specialist colleagues. Then again,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 28th April 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Momentum [1]: Walton, Respighi
RecommendedLiya Petrova (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Duncan Ward, Adam Laloum (piano)
Liya Petrova’s new recording of Walton’s Violin Concerto grips you from the outset. Her phrasing of the opening material ideally combines singing tone with subtle inflections of pulse and dynamic,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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The Agnus Dei by Tarik O’Regan, an ethereal and exquisitely worked setting, is worthy to stand alongside O taste and see, the communion anthem composed by Vaughan Williams for the 1953 coronation. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Technical Achievement
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, Technical Achievement
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