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CD, Mahler (composer)
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From the opening's haunting strings and distant fanfares, Järvi masterfully paints a picture of the work's vivid landscape, taking in all its subtlety and grandeur throughout. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th December 2025
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New. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor. 'Resurrection'
RecommendedMasabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Hallé Orchestra, Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir, Kahchun Wong
Wong's interpretation is at its best in the 'Resurrection' Symphony's two outer movements...Wong links the music's tumultuous sequence of ideas in a way that's impressive and convincing. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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It’s the most lightly, as in ineffably, characterised Mahler One I’ve heard since Kubelík’s. Everything flows, moves forward without rush…And when he needs to, Fischer pulls out the stops –... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Orchestral
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 9
RecommendedBerlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
It is masterly, wonderfully paced and finely detailed. The Berlin Philharmonic has never sounded like this since the 1980s. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1984, Winner - Orchestral
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Gramophone Awards, 1984, Recording of the Year
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Contemplation
RecommendedHuw Montague Rendall (baritone), Opéra Orchestre Normandie Rouen, Ben Glassberg
The first thing one notices in this wide-ranging recital from rising baritone Huw Montague Rendall is his seriousness of purpose...There’s also top-rank work from the orchestra and conductor;... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2024, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024, Shortlisted - Debut Solo Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Voice & Ensemble
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International Opera Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Solo Recording
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Special offer. Mahler: The Complete Symphonies
RecommendedArleen Augér (soprano - Symphony No. 2), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo -Symphony No. 2), Birgit Remmert (contralto - Symphony No. 3), Amanda Roocroft (soprano - Symphony No. 4), Christine Brewer (soprano), Soile Isokoski (soprano), Juliane Banse (mezzo-soprano), Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano), Jane Henschel...
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Engineering
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Orchestral
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Recording of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building A Library, April 2022, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Hans Rott: Symphony No. 1
RecommendedMahler: Blumine - Bruckner: Symphonisches Präludium
Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hrůša
Since its disinterring in 1989, there have been some fine recordings, but surely none more persuasive than this. Jakub Hrůša plainly loves the score and strives to characterise its every detail,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Symphonic Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Conductor of the Year
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 7
RecommendedSymphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle
The engineering abets the peerless attention to detail, always his greatest asset; every dynamic, every sonority is in place...the best way possible to celebrate what is, unbelievably, Rattle's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th January 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2025, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2025
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Bychkov is careful to keep the strings’ lyric funeral-marches objective, and it ’s fascinating how the Adagietto sounds otherworldly until the cellos bring in a richly portamentoed human warmth...the... — More…
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Record Review, 15th October 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 4
RecommendedSabine Devieilhe (soprano), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
What is remarkable about hearing Mahler’s most classicallyorientated symphony performed on instruments of the period when it was written is that the music’s strongly Expressionist subtext comes... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 27th August 2022, Record of the Week
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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