SACD, Schoenberg (composer)
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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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The Gringolts Quartet play both works with absolute mastery, and it would be difficult to imagine more convincing performances. Lingering particularly in the memory is the middle section of... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Chamber
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Special offer. 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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I am happy to report that it more than fulfils the highest expectations...This very distinguished recording should not be missed by anyone interested in fine piano-playing and heartfelt poetic... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Special offer. Schoenberg: Transfigured Night & Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedAlisa Weilerstein (cello)
Trondheim Soloists
In performances of such freshness, verve and chamber transparency, the concept works...You’d go far to find performances of the Haydn concertos that match Alisa Weilerstein’s mix of stylistic... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th August 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Second Quartet’s yearning first movement and the desperate scutterings of its scherzo are conveyed in febrile, hyper-Romantic style…Yet the Gringolt’s precision and finesse in the Fourth... — More…
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Trio Zimmermann - A Retrospective
Trio Zimmermann, Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Christian Poltéra (cello)
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Their playing is phenomenally accomplished…This is likely to be one of the chamber discs of the year. — More…
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Chamber
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
RecommendedStig Andersen (Waldemar), Andreas Conrad (Klaus-Narr), Soile Isokoski (Tove), Monica Groop (Waldtaube), Ralf Lukas (Bauer) & Barbara Sukowa (Sprecher)
Philharmonia Voices, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & The Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
…exciting, lucid, wonderfully well-proportioned, and recorded in stunning sound the final hymn to the rising sun would lift the most morbidly lethargist out of their chair. — More…
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Building a Library, March 2017, Also Recommended
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Verklärte Nacht
RecommendedSchoenberg - Fried - Lehár - Korngold
Christine Rice (mezzo), Stuart Skelton (tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Across the programme Edward Gardner is preternaturally attentive, nailing the volatile blend of schmaltz and suffering that underpins the Lehár; and cloaking the moonbathing opening of the Fried... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st January 2021
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