Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Nielsen & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJohan Dalene (violin)
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
Dalene has a strong command of long evolving lines – crucial in both composers – but he balances that with a fine feeling for ‘speaking’ phrasing and articulation...The expression can certainly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st April 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Concerto
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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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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Maurice Ravel: Orchestral Works
RecommendedMa Mère L’oye, Boléro, Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales, Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte, Alborada Del Gracioso & La Valse
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
this superbly played and sumptuously recorded disc from the Sinfonia of London and John Wilson amply demonstrates the profound benefits of trusting Ravel. Has Ma mère l’Oye ever sounded more... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th January 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Spatial Audio
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Building A Library, February 2024, Recommended Recording - Ma mère l'Oye
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Davidsen’s grandly sized soprano is headed for Wagner and other dramatic operas, but we know from recital appearances that she is also a very appreciable artist in solo song. Everything here... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th January 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2022, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 15th January 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Song
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Brahms: String Sextets
RecommendedBelcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
The two works have attracted numerous fine recordings, but here a luxury cast of the Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras bring us a really special one – full-toned, warm-hearted... — More…
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Record Review, 12th March 2022, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Chamber
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Gramophone Awards, 2022 Finalists
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber
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the most striking aspects of Podger’s playing throughout this recital (compared to most 20th-century ‘golden-agers’), is her enhanced range of tone and articulation, her vastly more flexible... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Recording of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Instrumental
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Instrumental
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Special offer. Massenet: Songs with Orchestra
RecommendedCyrille Dubois, Véronique Gens, Étienne Dupuis, Nicole Car, Jodie Devos, Chantal Santon Jeffery
Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Hervé Niquet
Véronique Gens of course is an artist to treasure and as always she responds alertly to the demands of text and melodic line. Of the others, I was especially taken by the tenor Cyrille Dubois...Call... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year (Gens/Devos)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year (Dupuis)
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Shortlisted - Voice & Orchestra
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Special offer. 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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Special offer. Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
RecommendedJulien Behr (Pelléas), Vannina Santoni (Mélisande), Alexandre Duhamel (Golaud), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Geneviève), Jean Teitgen (Arkel), Hadrien Joubert (Yniold)
Les Siècles, Chœur de l'Opéra de Lille François-Xavier Roth
It’s like listening in black and white rather than colour. The music’s generally soft-toned orchestral landscape is both vivid and beautifully shaded...sensitively played and paced under Roth’s... — More…
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Opera, April 2022, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th March 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Opera
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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Best of all are the Masques, recorded in Copenhagen in 1994…Indeed, the middle-period Masques also leap out with more imagination than anything else here, the pianist’s command of colour magnificent... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th September 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Winner - Piano
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Special offer. Meyerbeer: Robert Le Diable
RecommendedJohn Osborn (Robert), Nicolas Courjal (Bertram), Amina Edris (Alice), Erin Morley (Isabelle), Nico Darmanin (Raimbaut)
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Chœur de l'Opera National de Bordeaux, Marc Minkowski
It all adds up to a formidable re-evaluation of a seminal if neglected work, as well as being a remarkable achievement in its own right. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd December 2022
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Limelight Magazine, January 2023, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Opera
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