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The Kurt Weill Album
RecommendedKatharine Mehrling (Anna), Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Joana Mallwitz
Mallwitz and her orchestra play every note with meaning. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd August 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Orchestral
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Kaleidoscope
RecommendedFatma Said (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Sascha Goetzel
Said vaults effortlessly across stylistic boundaries, often via dazzling arrangements by her collaborator Tim Allhoff. And that Whitney Houston track? Even diehard sceptics will be moved by... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd September 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
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New. In Search of Youkali: Songs of Kurt Weill
Katie Bray (mezzo), William Vann (piano), Murray Grainger (accordion), Marianne Schofield (double bass)
Bray's singing matches well with both texts and notes from the barbed vulnerability of the first song from The Threepenny Opera onwards and indeed entering throughout into the spirit of the... —
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Special offer. Kurt Weill: Love Life
Themba Mvula, Quirijn de Lang, Stephanie Corley, Kamil Bien, Nicholas Butterfield, Paul Gibson, Simon Grange, Ross McInroy, Cameron Mitchell, Tim Ochala-Greenough, Tom Smith (saxophone), Tilly Baker, Louie Stow, Will Hopkins, Joshua da Costa, Andrew Randall, Masimba Ushe, Felicity Moore, Amber Midgley,...
Weill is not always on top form: but it's an interesting piece, here given a second chance to succeed, and expertly done. —
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The range of repertoire enables her to explore a wide breadth of moods and atmospheres. Dancelike pieces… contain by-now trademark Gillam-isms – lively characterisation combined with technical... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Dance With Me
RecommendedLUDWIG Orchestra, Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Lucienne Rénaudin-Vary (trumpet), Berlage Saxophone Quartet
The tautness of the Ludwig Orchestra’s playing – augmented in four dances by the Berlage Saxophone Quartet – echoes that of the best bands of the big band era, and the arrangements are not only... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th March 2022
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Billed as ‘Kate Lindsey with Baptiste Trotignon’, it reveals the jazz pianist, who shows luminous classical credentials here too, as equal to the mezzo’s multi-hued originality…I’d like to hear... —
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Quiet City
RecommendedAlison Balsom (trumpet), Tom Poster (piano), Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais), Britten Sinfonia, Scott Stroman
Revisiting the improvisatory practice of jazz icons with highly idiosyncratic techniques can fall flat, but Balsom and the Britten Sinfonia make it work. They are entirely idiomatic and wonderfully... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th August 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral
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Requiem – The Pity of War
RecommendedMahler – Stephan – Butterworth – Weill
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Sir Antonio Pappano (piano)
Bostridge and Antonio Pappano are on superb form here, carefully responsive to style and mood, yet striving throughout for unsparing immediacy of expression…Stephan’s taxing vocal lines push... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th October 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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