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CD, Berg (composer)
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the intensity doesn’t let up, but neither does the quality of the playing...Indebted to Bach and to Liszt, the Fantasia Contrappuntistica can be an impenetrable work. Levit’s approach is lucid... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th September 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrumental Recording of the Year
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Beethoven & Berg: Violin Concertos
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin)
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado
listening to these wonderful performances side by side is cathartic...The journey is vividly delineated from the outset of the Berg. With Abbado drawing sonorities from his first-rate orchestra,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th February 2012
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Orchestral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Disc of the Month
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Concerto
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Special offer. Lieder: Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (bass-baritone), Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Goerne and the equally probing Daniil Trifonov – a true conversational partner – seem to conceive the whole programme as a brooding mega-cycle on the human condition. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, October 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 - Male Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
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Special offer. Infinite Voyage
RecommendedBarbara Hannigan (soprano), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
Emerson String Quartet
Much the finest experience comes in Schoenberg’s quartet, where the Emerson Quartet ’s playing masterfully combines forensic technical precision and expressive warmth. And Hannigan’s identif... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th September 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Special offer. Clair-Obscur
RecommendedStrauss - Berg - Zemlinsky
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté, Jean-François Verdier
Shunning the velvety voluptuousness of a Jessye Norman or the wide-eyed textual probing of a Schwarzkopf, she brings a freshness of perspective that encourages the reconsideration of cherished... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th March 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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Special offer. Crazy Girl Crazy: Music by Gershwin, Berg and Berio
Recommendedincluding bonus documentary DVD
Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor)
Ludwig Orchestra
Crazy Girl Crazy is an album that – just like its muse and protagonist – flouts the rules…The litheness of Hannigan’s voice beguiles, so that the near-segue into the Lulu Suite (1934) comes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd September 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, Recording of the month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Recording - voice (Oratorio/Concert/Lied)
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What riches we already have here. Geniushene's Chopin is impeccably crisp and articulate improvisatory, yet at the same time tasteful and disciplined...This is an outstanding album that left... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2026, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Vienna - Fin de Siècle
RecommendedBarbara Hannigan (soprano), Reinbert De Leeuw (piano)
Hannigan’s luminous voice perfectly suits this music. She conveys the uneasy, almost unhinged feel of the fin de siècle not only in her lyric singing, but also in her crooning, swopping, sliding,... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Juno Awards, 2019, Classical Album of the Year - Vocal or Choral
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Beethoven, Berg & Bartók: Violin Concertos
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding, Kirill Petrenko, Alan Gilbert
Where this set really comes into its own is with the 20th-century concertos, most especially the Berg, a work whose combination of Romantic cantabile, emotional thrust and tonally stretched... — More…
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Record Review, 2nd October 2021, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Concerto
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2 CDs + Blu-ray Audio
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Berg: Violin Concerto, Three Pieces for Orchestra
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Ehnes gives a hauntingly elegiac account of Berg’s Violin Concerto...[He] makes it sound like a requiem not only for Manon Gropius, but also for Berg himself...His mellow tone is ideally captured... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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