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They’re both electrifying, and they sound absolutely magnificent...Pappano makes sure [the Fourth] sings as often as it can...This is a terrible beauty, energetic, Satanic, utterly spellbinding,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th April 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Record Review, Records of the Year 2021
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony
Recommendedoriginal 1913 version
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
Hickox and the London Symphony Orchestra have come up with a recording that you can cheerfully measure against most others in the catalogue, before you consider its unique extra charms! — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st December 2008
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2001, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, November 2016, Also Recommended
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge & other songs Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Timothy Ridout (viola)
Piatti Quartet
The famous cycle On Wenlock Edge (1909) has of ten been recorded, but this is a fine rendering with ‘Bredon Hill’ providing some particularly sublime moments. As always Julius Drake’s accompanying... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2022
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Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending & Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
The success-level here is excellently high. Collectors will savour a genuine rarity: the composer’s own orchestra-only arrangement of the Serenade to Music…the music sounds as rapturously beautiful... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2019
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An English Coronation, 1902-1953 RecommendedEdward VII, George V, George VI, Elizabeth II
Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh
Some may find the extensive spoken liturgy excessive but such is Simon Russell Beale’s compelling delivery that the sheer beauty of the words offers a musical diversion of a different kind. Most... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Choral
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 1 'A Sea Symphony' RecommendedKatherine Broderick (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone)
Hallé, Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Ad Solem, Sir Mark Elder
Mark Elder's Vaughan Williams cycle with The Halle is turning out to be the finest since the two by Adrian Boult - and the opening bars of this live recording of A Sea Symphony show why. The... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th September 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Manze earns himself a large plus-point for taking the Fifth Symphony’s Scherzo second movement closer to Vaughan Williams’s ‘Presto’ tempo marking than usually happens…the music’s quicksilver... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 7th April 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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a performance of striking composure, lustre and palpable dedication. Not only do the Bergen Philharmonic respond with notable poise and eagerness (solo contributions are of the highest quality... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th February 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Recording of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Orchestral
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Record Review, 4th February 2017, Recording of the Week
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Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica, Two Piano Concertos & Four Last Songs
RecommendedMari Eriksmoen (soprano), Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier (pianos), Roderick Williams (baritone)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Either [Lortie] or Hélène Mercier could probably polish off the original [Concerto] by themselves, but their partnership develops its intensity without strain, particularly attractive in rich... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th September 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017, Nouveauté
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[the Tallis Fantasia] is tight-reined, yet also singing and surging with no trace of anti-Romantic tendentiousness...But what makes this release so special is Elder and the Hallé's interpretation... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Orchestral
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