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SACD, Rachmaninoff (composer)
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Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3, Vocalise & The Isle of the Dead
RecommendedSinfonia of London, John Wilson
Wilson’s way with the music seems to owe more to the x-ray clarity of Toscanini and Szell...sprung like a sports car, tightly resilient on its bushings. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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the Rachmaninov of Latvia's outstanding professional choir presents a golden mean between the uniquely open-throated but not always pitch-perfect Glinka Choir of the hallowed St Petersburg tradition,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Choral
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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an outstanding young artist at work...the early Tchaikovsky Scherzo brims over with panache and relish; and Islamey rivals even Berezovsky for the title of cleanest and most exhilarating account.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th June 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Rachmaninoff: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 31
Raul Mikson (tenor), Olari Viikholm (bass), Maria Valdmaa (soprano)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
In this recording, the excellent Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir sings not only with exemplary tuning and purity of tone – with just a touch of vibrato in the sopranos – but with a degree... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Choral Music
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In this warmly recorded release, John Wilson appears to get the balance just right. There’s plenty of heft as well as requisite warmth in the big orchestral climaxes, for instance near the end... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th April 2023
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Prepare to be astonished. Even allowing for the huge technical standards taken for granted today, Ivan Bessonov’s verges on phenomenal. He draws a beautifully rounded sound from the Steinway... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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The hand-picked players of his Sinfonia of London are thrilling in [the] big moments, a relatively small ensemble conjuring the heftiest sonorities…Not always super-refined or conventionally... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th May 2025
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Their playing is consummate, fearless in its bravura, deeply impassioned and dazzlingly flighted (try the Allegro scherzando variation of the D minor’s second movement). Eyes seeking within,... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Engineered Album (Classical)
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Special offer. Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 & Balakirev: Russia
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Gergiev and the LSO capture the score's expressive beauty, and also the sense of its transience as chill winter encroaches — More…
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The Chorus’s merits are well known in the concert hall and on other notable LSO Live CDs … but even by their standards this recording of Rachmaninoff’s All Night Vigil is something of a jewel. — More…
