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Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers
RecommendedThéo Fouchenneret (piano), Tristan Raës, Cyrille Dubois (soloist), Roberto Prosseda (piano), Alessandra Ammara, Ismaël Margain, François Dumont (piano), Anna Agafia, Anaïs Constans (soloist), Marie Vermeulin, David Zobel, Yann Beuron (soloist), Étienne Manchon, Aude Extrémo (soloist), François Rougier...
Although women composers are at last getting more attention, there have been few discoveries as encyclopedic as this. Across eight discs, the legacy of 21 French Romantic composers is explored,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Box Set of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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The third album from the Hermes Experiment again shows what a liberating force in contemporary music this ensemble have become… The question is no longer why composers would choose to write... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025, Concept Album
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2025
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Motets romantiques
Yann Dubost, Anaïs Gaudemard, Lucile Dollat, Christophe Grapperon, Judith van Wanroij (soprano), Isabelle Druet (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Dolié (baritone), Manon Galy (violin), Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Chœur de Radio France, Victor Julien-Laferrière
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Choral
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it's a superlative performance [of Alborada del gracioso] by any standards, including repeated notes that turn me green with envy. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd September 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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Each player in the Neave Trio has an individual sound and, intriguingly, they are not always an obvious blend: there's luminous and full-blooded tone from cellist Mikhail Veselov, violinist... —
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It’s an eclectic mix that combines nostalgia with a modern, shuffle-play sense of adventure. As Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Bloom finds luminosity in the changing seasons, Huw Watkins’s Arietta suspends... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, Chamber Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Premiere
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Shura Cherkassky: The Complete 78rpm Recordings (1923-1950)
Shura Cherkassky (piano), Robert Lortat, Marcel Hubert, Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Rachmilovich
APR’s is the most comprehensive single collection and has, by a country mile, the best annotation, booklet (Jonathan Summers) and transfers (Seth B Winner)...evidence, if it were needed, of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Archive Issue of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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For me, the lighter popular songs that conclude the disc, with Alder floating exquisitely soft high notes, take the prize. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Song
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Childhood memories are summoned, plus people and places…Indeed, there’s so much playfulness and charm here that the listener might well pant for some extra ballast from meatier things. It comes... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
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