Stravinsky
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Mirages
RecommendedOpera Arias & Songs
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano) & Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Devieilhe’s singing lights up the good, the bad and the music of Ambroise Thomas with her vivid, pure tone and apparently limitless breath. Alexandre Tharaud pops in as a sensitive piano partner;... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Recital
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Vocal
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex & Apollon Musagète
RecommendedJennifer Johnston (Jocasta), Stuart Skelton (Oedipus), Gidon Saks (Creon) & Fanny Ardant (narrator)
Gentlemen of the Monteverdi Choir & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Johnston's superb interpretation lifts the whole performance up a couple of notches...But John Eliot Gardiner's conducting somehow misses the work's elusive power. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th April 2014
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Building a Library, May 2018, Recommended Recording
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Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (English Version)
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano)
It’s rounded, intensely vocal, intimate, incredibly sophisticated – not the usual, but very welcome, as if the whole thing were an ethereal fairytale...It’s your choice which language version... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th August 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Chamber
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Fritz Reiner conducts Rimsky Korsakov & Stravinsky
RecommendedChicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner
Reiner's magnificent (1956) Scheherazade stands out among the many superb RCA recordings made in Chicago in the 1950s...Sidney Harth, the orchestral leader, naturally balanced, plays most seductively...The... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building A Library, October 2023, Also Recommended - Scheherazade
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Stravinsky: Die Geschichte vom Soldaten (German version)
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano)
It’s rounded, intensely vocal, intimate, incredibly sophisticated – not the usual, but very welcome, as if the whole thing were an ethereal fairytale...It’s your choice which language version... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th August 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Stravinsky: Perséphone
RecommendedAndrew Staples & Pauline Cheviller
Finnish National Opera, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Orchestral textures are clean yet sensuous, rhythms exactingly precise...In lesser hands, the score can seem episodic. Salonen, however, forges it into a unified drama, in which not a note or... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2018
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Vocal/Choral
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Dance!
Daniel Hope (violin), Zürcher Kammerorchester (chamber orchestra), Benjamin Günst (violin), Jenö Lisztes (cimbalom), Omar Massa (bandoneon), Stephane Logerot (bass), Joscho Stephan (guitar), Jacques Ammon (piano), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp)
There are...treasures, all led by this charismatic musician with great verve and style in a hugely enjoyable and imaginative programme delivered with all of Hope’s customary panache. — More…
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Stravinsky: The Firebird & Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d'Or
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Petrenko’s preference for slow tempos over flexible drama might make for fidgety audiences in the concert hall…It just about works on CD, and then all hell’s let loose in perfectly-balanced... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th December 2018
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Ravel: L'enfant et les Sortileges & L'heure Espagnole
RecommendedBerlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de la RTF, Berliner Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel
The singing is delightful: neoclassical crispness of articulation goes with refined textures that convey the ripe humour of the one piece, the tender poetry of the other.The inclusion of [the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Remastered CD
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, September 2018, Also Recommended
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Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite - Falla: El Retablo de Maese Pedro & Harpsichord Concerto
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado, Benjamin Alard, Airam Hernández
Without the visuals, [the Falla] needs the utmost vividness. And it gets it from the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under a fiery Pablo Heras-Casado at the start...The Pulcinella Suite is simply perfect,... — More…
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