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This is an album that proclaims the viola as a distinctive, individual solo instrument, ideally served here by its skilled interpreter...this [Bach] Chaconne seems to sum up Ridout's whole approach... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st February 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2025, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Young Talent of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Winner - Instrumental
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Even by their standards, the choir are on blindingly good form in Schnittke’s monumental Choir Concerto. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Choral Performance
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Musique chorale
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Choral
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New. Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 9; Carlos Simon: Four Black American Dances
RecommendedPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Honeck has that rare ability to make even the most well-worn works sound engagingly fresh...Simon's riotously colourful Four Black American Dances (2023) makes an apt coupling. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd July 2026
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2026, Recording of the Month
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It's with the Fourth Sonata of Scriabin that the full breadth of Liu's musical and pianistic gifts unfurls. He takes risks, stealing the breath with perfectly calculated dynamics, and retaining... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th August 2026
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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... —
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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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The sequence works well as a recital-like experience, and also as a vehicle for Hough’s comprehensive mastery of his art...The idiom of his own ‘Vida breve’ Sonata, with its cogent sweep and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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[In the title-work] Saariaho embraces the often-referenced otherworldly aspects of her palette by setting text about Martians, desert people and universality – think sci-fi madrigal rather than... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Winner - Best Choral Performance
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Winner - Contemporary Music
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Shortlisted - Choral
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Hough: Piano Concerto, Sonatina & Partita
RecommendedSir Stephen Hough (piano), The Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
a sophisticated, entertaining Piano Concerto that avoids pastiche yet cleverly evokes lost musical words. […] It all leads to an exhilarating finale, a tarantella appassionata which sends the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th March 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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This latest recording once again showcases his singers' effortless versatility both as choristers and soloists...One of Tenebrae's great strengths is to bring both dignity and panache to these... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2025, August 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Winner - Choral
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Paganini: 24 Caprices
Recommendedplus Caprices by Berlioz, Cervelló, Kreisler, Ortiz, Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Wieniawski
María Dueñas (violin), Itamar Golan (piano), Boris Kuschnir (violin), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Mihhail Gerts
The Paganini Caprices have energy in the bowing from the outset, confident octaves and portamento, and impeccable double stops...You could listen straight through, but I’d recommend random shuffling... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th February 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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