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'It hardly needs saying that there is nothing banal about Bychkov’s meticulously mapped performances and that his attention to detail never stifles the music’s spontaneity...In sum, an enriching... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2024, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Winner - Orchestral
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Camino
RecommendedFederico Mompou, Maurice Ravel, Manuel de Falla, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc
Sean Shibe (guitar)
Vivid, beguiling and intensely intimate, [Mompou's] Suite compostelana offers both blueprint and guide for the musical-emotional pilgrimage signalled by the album title...In Shibe’s hands it... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th August 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite & Schoenberg: Pelléas & Mélisande
RecommendedOrchestre de La Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott
Nott’s orchestral suite arranged from Debussy’s opera is both substantial and imaginatively devised... it is played here with a consistent loveliness that absorbs and appeals in its own right. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th November 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Francisco Coll: Violin Concerto and other works
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Orchestre Philharmonique Du Luxembourg, Gustavo Gimeno
His Violin Concerto’s three movements...typify his delight in bringing extremes of expression within often terrifyingly close proximity, and is thrillingly realised by Patricia Kopatchinskaja,... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Contemporary
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Contemporary
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Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques, Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major, Schoenberg: Piano Concerto
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi, Orchestre de La Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott
You have to envy the citizens of Geneva...Add a pianist in Francesco Piemontesi’s class, and here are stellar interpretations of three very different concerto-type works, ordered into a journey... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th July 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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There is, of course, a very real sense of ownership when the Czech Philharmonic play these pieces…And Bychkov’s skill – and indeed generosity – is to trust in his orchestra’s inheritance of... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th September 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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This is a gleaming and brilliant album that doesn’t fail to awaken the senses to the exhilarating world of un-adulterated acoustic sound. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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The voice is elegant, flexible and carefully controlled, with sympathetic support provided by Gli Originali under the baton of Riccardo Frizza. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th November 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023, Recording of the Month
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Solo Recital)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Jake Heggie: Unexpected Shadows
RecommendedJamie Barton (mezzo-soprano), Jake Heggie (piano), Matt Haimovitz (cello)
In her latest recording, Barton shows that she is a dab hand at contemporary repertoire and artistry on a more intimate scale...Throughout this recital, Barton and Heggie move seamlessly from... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Song
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Iestyn Davies (Orfeo), Sophie Bevan (Euridice), Rebecca Bottone (Amor)
La Nuova Musica, David Bates
Bates is, like Gluck, wonderfully radical. Where other directors smooth over disjunctions, he revels in rupture…This is directorship at its most alert, and aiding Bates is an optimal cast…Davies... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Opera
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