Browse: Orchestral, Overtures
This page lists all classical recordings in genre: Orchestral » Overtures.
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the concert-aria and operatic readings themselves are gems, each one thrown off with a splendid combination of technical brilliance, musicianly assurance and tonal sweetness, and impeccably supported... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th November 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Recital
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The Italian Job RecommendedBaroque Instrumental Music from the Italian States
Gail Hennessy, Rachel Chaplin (oboes) & Peter Whelan (bassoon)
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
The highlight of the disc for me is Chandler’s performance of a seldom-played E major Violin Concerto by Tartini: he explores fully the rich poetic content of its slow movement while projecting... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Moeran: Sinfonietta, Symphony in G minor & Overture for a Masque RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
Boult's affection for the G minor Symphony is in every phrase of this rapt and gloriously warm-hearted performance.
The New Philharmonia are on blistering form and, thankfully for us, captured... — More…Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Historic Reissue
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This Bax symphony cycle comes under the baton of the composer's doughtiest champion, and superlatives are in order. Even seasoned Baxians will be startled by the propulsive vigour and sinewy... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2003, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Orchestral
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
5 CDs
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dynamic and dramatic readings, faithful to Brahms's intentions. Powerfully conceived, they are rhythmically alert, without an ounce of undue sentiment and never for an instant losing sight of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Recording of the Year
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Building a Library, April 2018, Also recommended
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Rameau: Le Grand Theatre de l'Amour
Opera Arias
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko
Devieilhe has a clear, flexible voice with easy high notes. She's an agile, expressive and stylish singer, and a generous team-player...The star performance here, however, comes from Kossenko... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Musique baroque vocale
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The Wagner Project
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (baritone)
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
Goerne does misery masterfully … As Goerne’s Wotan kisses Brünnhilde to sleep, the moment is so intimate that (depending on your speakers) you might even feel a peck on the cheek. Yet this isn’t... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th November 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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Record Review, 23rd December 2017, Recording of the Week
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Opera
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Dame Ethel Smyth: Mass in D & Overture to 'The Wreckers' RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sakari Oramo
Oramo rises to the work’s ambition with a fiercely committed, highly persuasive reading that indulges generosity of scale and imagination while pinpointing the Mass’s many felicities of detail.... — More…
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Record Review, 5th October 2019, Disc of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th October 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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post-Beethovenian works that show Farrenc at her distinctive best. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th July 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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What Wilson doesn’t know about the inner workings of Coates’s methods isn’t worth knowing; and just as he has approximated the playing styles of American orchestras under the likes of Paul Weston... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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