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Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphony No. 10
RecommendedBoston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Powerful and beautifully crafted, this recording – the first from the relationship between DG and the Boston Symphony under Nelsons – is a hugely impressive sign of just what this ensemble/maestro... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st July 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2015, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Orchestral
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Orchestral Performance
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The PHQ understand absolutely the plasticity of Smetana’s vision and convey it unerringly, unshrinkingly – and in some ways even more convincingly than the Talich, which is saying something.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th April 2015
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Chamber Winner
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The [Goldberg] Aria sings without affectation as if to emphasise that what follows isn't about the theme but what happens to it...Unstarchy too is Levit's approach to Beethoven's Diabelli Variations...As... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Disc of the Month
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Building a Library, June 2017, Also Recommended
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Instrumental
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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…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th October 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Brahms & Bruckner: Motets
RecommendedMark Templeton (trombone), Helen Vollam (trombone), Patrick Jackman (trombone), Alexander Mason (organ)
Tenebrae, Nigel Short
Nigel Short and Tenebrae have come up with a beautifully balanced and contrasted programme…The beauty of sound and dignified expression of intensity that Tenebrae create in the opening of the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Choral Winner
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Building a Library, December 2017, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2017, First Choice
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the concert-aria and operatic readings themselves are gems, each one thrown off with a splendid combination of technical brilliance, musicianly assurance and tonal sweetness, and impeccably supported... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th November 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Recital
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Rachmaninov Variations
RecommendedDaniil Trifonov (piano)
Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
the Philadelphians under Yannick Nézet-Séguin provide sterling support for Trifonov's stunning pyrotechnics. There are also moments of magical repose, Trifonov achieving astonishing beauty of... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2015, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Concerto
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
RecommendedHannah Morrison (soprano), Esther Brazil (mezzo), Meg Bragle (alto), Kate Symonds-Joy (alto), Peter Davoren (tenor), Nick Pritchard (tenor), Alex Ashworth (bass), David Shipley (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner’s second recording of the B minor Mass is a predictably exhilarating experience. The opening Kyrie, paced to perfection, leaves one amazed afresh…the chorus (which supplies the mostly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Baroque Vocal
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Gens, as one might expect, is exceptional in this repertoire. Most of the songs are about erotic anticipation and tristesse, and her dark, slightly smoky tone adds to the sensuality of it all.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th November 2015
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Watkin's profound musicianship is more than enough to accelerate this recording of Bach's Cello Suites to the top of the tiny league of 'definitive' recordings...it's as if all the work that... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Instrumental Winner
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