Presto Recordings of the Year - Haydn (composer) (page 1 of 3)

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Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 92, 93, 97, 98 & 99

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London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis

The performance is notably warmer and more personal [than his earlier accounts], it glows with affection for this life-enhancing music...[the Adagio of No. 99] unfolds with a sublime serenity... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…
Release Date: 30th Jun 2014

Catalogue No: LSO0702

Label: LSO Live

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Recording of the Week, 30th June 2014
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 31, 70 & 101

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Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Robin Ticciati

The performances, though on modern instruments, pay attention to matters of period style - every repeat observed, careful balance between parts…the SCO is everywhere on wonderfully characterful... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…
Release Date: 18th Sep 2015

Catalogue No: CKD500

Label: Linn

Length: 77 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Recording of the Week, 18th September 2015
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Haydn 2032 Volume 5 - L’Homme De Genie

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Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini

The Basel Chamber Orchestra present a sound that is a touch sweeter than Il Giardino Armonico’s, although that familiar period-instrument ‘spit’ is still never absent...That sweetness suits these... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2018 More…
Release Date: 17th Nov 2017

Catalogue No: ALPHA676

Label: Alpha

Series: Haydn 2032 project

Length: 78 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
- Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
- Gramophone Magazine, January 2018, Editor's Choice
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La Passione - Works by Grisey, Nono & Haydn

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Ludwig Orchestra, Barbara Hannigan

The knowledge that Grisey himself died unexpectedly himself died unexpectedly at only 52 shortly before the work’s premiere only heightens the impact of this mesmeric recording. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…
Release Date: 27th Mar 2020

Catalogue No: ALPHA586

Label: Alpha

Length: 72 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Editor's Choice, March 2020
- Diapason d’Or, July/August 2020, Nouveauté
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
- Juno Awards, 2021, Nominated - Classical Album of the Year (Vocal or Choral)
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Haydn: ‘Sun’ Quartets Op.20, Nos. 4-6 (Vol. 2)

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Chiaroscuro Quartet

The Chiaroscuro Quartet revel in the composer's play of ideas...It was the interpretation of No. 5 that blind-sided me on a first listening...This is a deeply absorbing reading, and can make... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…
Release Date: 30th Jun 2017

Catalogue No: BIS2168

Label: BIS

Length: 75 minutes
Awards:
- BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Disc of the month
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
- Building a Library, February 2018, Recommended Recording
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Haydn: The Seasons, Hob.XXI:3

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Jeremy Ovenden (tenor), Andrew Foster-Williams (bass)

Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, Wrocław Philharmonic Choir, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh

the performance matches the high standards of McCreesh's previous grand choral projects...McCreesh revels in Haydn's masterly skills in writing for orchestra, choir and soloists...The choir's... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017 More…
Release Date: 24th Mar 2017

Catalogue No: SIGCD480

Label: Signum

Series: Winged Lion

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Recording of the Week, 24th March 2017
- Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
- BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, Choral & Song Choice
- Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Choral
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
- Record Review, 29th April 2017, Recording of the Week
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Shakespeare Songs

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)

Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016 More…
Release Date: 2nd Sep 2016

Catalogue No: 9029594473

Label: Warner Classics

Length: 66 minutes
Awards:
- Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
- ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
- Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Arianna

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Kate Lindsey (mezzo)

Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen

Ardent, brilliant, stately: mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey probes the inner states of the mythical Cretan princess Ariadne…Cohen adds hugely to these performances, in the Haydn especially. Cohen... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…
Release Date: 31st Jan 2020

Catalogue No: ALPHA576

Label: Alpha

Length: 72 minutes
Awards:
- Record Review, 14th March 2020, Record of the Week
- BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Choral & Song Choice
- Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Recital
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Haydn 2032 Volume 6 - Lamentatione

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Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini

What makes these performances special is Antonini’s knack for subtly drawing attention to Haydn’s powers of harmonic and rhythmic invention: the development sections of the sonata-form movements... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Classical, 15th June 2018 More…
Release Date: 22nd Jun 2018

Catalogue No: ALPHA678

Label: Alpha

Series: Haydn 2032 project

Length: 66 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Recording of the Week, 15th June 2018
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Haydn & CPE Bach: Cello Concertos

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Steven Isserlis (cello/director)

The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

His interpretations, graceful and finely-etched before, now have a more rugged depth, and the new variants on his own cadenzas speak of experience…His own arrangement of Mozart’s heavenly ‘Geme... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…
Release Date: 1st Sep 2017

Catalogue No: CDA68162

Label: Hyperion

Length: 77 minutes
Awards:
- Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Disc of the Month
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
- Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Instrumental Solo
- Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Concerto
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