SACD, Messiaen (composer)
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Few are better acquainted [with the Catalogue] than Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and this set is clearly a long-pondered act of love…Needless to say, Aimard possesses the necessary dazzling virtuosity,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Instrumental
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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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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2018
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Instrumental
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The overall excellence of Tamara Stefanovich’s interpretations is enhanced by a superb multichannel recording characterised by full-bodied ambience an concert-hall realism. Stefanovich voices... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. 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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A Simple Song
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Sharon Bezaly (flute), Fabian Fredriksson (electric guitar), Margareta Nilsson (harp), Bengt Forsberg (organ), Nils-Erik Sparf (violin), Marie McLeod (cello), Ellen Nisbeth (viola)
Von Otter’s generous personality is reflected in the way she puts over every item, with care for text and a honeyed sweetness of tone…Admirers of the singer will certainly want it; and, if you’re... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2018
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In addition to Frølund’s virtuoso range, it’s his sensitive programming that makes this disc such an interesting discovery. — More…
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In Le tombeau de Couperin, Kathryn Stott not only pays tribute to the Classical impulses behind the work but also honours its more powerful moments…[her] fingers are well up to the virtuosic... — More…
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Special offer. Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony
Angela Hewitt (piano) & Valérie Hartmann-Claverie (ondes Martenot)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Lintu's awareness of internal balance is masterly. The machine-like tutti that follows the first-movement piano cadenza marches relentlessly forwards, strings crooning high above the extreme... — More…
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L'amour et la foi
Vocal music by Olivier Messiaen
Marianna Shirinyan (piano) & Thomas Bloch (ondes martenot)
Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Danish National Concert Choir & Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Marcus Creed
These Danish performances conducted by Marcus Creed are models of precision and lucidity; every vocal and instrumental strand is there. But it all comes across as rather cool, with neither the... — More…
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2015, Winner - Musique Chorale
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Special offer. AKOKA: Reframing Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time
David Krakauer (clarinet), Matt Haimovitz (cello), Jonathan Crow (violin), Geoffrey Burleson (piano) & Socalled (electronics)
The Messiaen performance puts a human face on a disparate body. I hear the piece a little differently now, and love it a little more, and what more can a recording do? — More…
