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Concertos, Flute Concertos
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Special offer. Huw Watkins: Flute Concerto, Violin Concerto and Symphony
Adam Walker (flute), Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Hallé, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth, Edward Gardner
Cast in the conventional three movements, [the Flute Concerto] dances through a musical landscape full of light and shade. Its invigorating sense of pace and momentum is beautifully caught by... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Weinberg: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7
Kirill Gerstein (harpsichord), Marie-Christine Zupancic (flute), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Here at last is the follow up to Mirga GražinytėTyla’s awardwinning 2019 Weinberg release – an equally superb, charismatically interpreted and intelligently programmed recording. This vividly... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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The performances… are typically neatly-pointed and vivacious. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers
RecommendedThéo Fouchenneret (piano), Tristan Raës, Cyrille Dubois (soloist), Roberto Prosseda (piano), Alessandra Ammara, Ismaël Margain, François Dumont (piano), Anna Agafia, Anaïs Constans (soloist), Marie Vermeulin, David Zobel, Yann Beuron (soloist), Étienne Manchon, Aude Extrémo (soloist), François Rougier...
Although women composers are at last getting more attention, there have been few discoveries as encyclopedic as this. Across eight discs, the legacy of 21 French Romantic composers is explored,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Box Set of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Revolution: Flute Concertos
RecommendedEmmanuel Pahud (flute)
Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini
[Pahud's] sound is by turns silvery as a coloratura soprano, dusky as a dramatic contralto…there is suave and polished playing, too, by the Basel Chamber Orchestra under Giovanni Antonini who... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th March 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Nielsen: The Symphonies & Concertos
RecommendedErin Morley (soprano) & Joshua Hopkins (baritone), Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Robert Langevin (flute), Anthony McGill (clarinet)
New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th June 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Vivaldi: The French Connection 2
Adrian Chandler (director/violin), Katy Bircher (flute), Gail Hennessy (oboe) & Peter Whelen (bassoon)
La Serenissima
Chandler has put together a fascinating programme among which are some rarities including two 'world premiere recordings'...Katy Bircher and Chandler himself are the respective soloists [in... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Weinberg: Concertos
Claes Gunnarsson (cello), Anders Jonhäll (flute), Urban Claesson (clarinet)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Thord Svedlund
Appreciation of the Polish-born Mieczyspaw Weinberg has increased markedly over recent years. This collection of four concertos covers a fair proportion of the composer's maturity. The Cello... —
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Virtuosic in nature, the fast movements are packed with passagework, which soloist Francesco Guggiola delivers with fine articulation. Vivaldi allows barely any space for breath in the C major... —
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Special offer. Telemann: Concertos & Cantata Ihr Völker Hört
Clare Wilkinson (mezzo soprano)
Florilegium
Florilegium has already shown its sensibility to and affection for Telemann’s music…Difficult though it is to single out any particular work, I would commend the A major Trio for flute, obbligato... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, Chamber Choice
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