Orchestral , Incidental Music

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Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi

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Gramophone Magazine, May 2024, Editor's Choice
BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music

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Grieg: Piano Concerto & Incidental Music to 'Peer Gynt'

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Lise Davidsen (soprano), Ann-Helen Moen (soprano), Victoria Nava (soprano), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Håkon Høgemo (Hardanger Fiddle) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choirs, Edward Gardner

Presto Recording of the Week, 5th January 2018
Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Concerto
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018

Special offer. Handel: Alceste

Lucy Crowe (soprano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor) & Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone) Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn

Presto Recording of the Week, 14th May 2012
BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, Opera Choice
Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Editor's Choice
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Opera Award Winner

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Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Two Serenades; Two Serious Melodies; Swanwhite

Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon

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BBC Music Magazine, July 2025, Orchestral Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
Presto Team Choices, June 2025

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Special offer. Sibelius: Luonnotar; Tapiola & Spring Song

Lise Davidsen (soprano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner

Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd July 2021
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021

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Libertà! | Mozart & The Opera

Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Siobhan Stagg (soprano), Serena Malfi (mezzo), Linard Vrielink (tenor), John Chest (baritone), Nahuel di Pierro (bass-baritone) Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon

Presto Editor's Choice, August 2019
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal International Classical Music Awards 2019 Nominee - Vocal

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Debussy: La Mer & Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien

Philharmonia Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado

The Times Records of the Year, 2018

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Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite, Spring Song & Suite from 'Belshazzar's Feast'

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo

Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019

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Special offer. Victorious Love - Songs by Henry Purcell

Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Laurence Cummings (harpsichord & spinet), Elizabeth Kenny (archlute / theorbo), Anne-Marie Lasla (bass viol), Sarah Sexton (violin I), Andrea Morris (violin II) & Jane Rogers (viola)

Building a Library, February 2014, Top Recital Recommendation
Gramophone Magazine, December 2007, Editor's Choice
Penguin Guide, Rosette

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Special offer. Britten: Songs & Proverbs of William Blake | and other songs

Gerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano)

Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Solo Vocal

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The Playhouse Sessions

Barokksolistene, Bjarte Eike

Presto Editor's Choice, September 2022
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Editor's Choice

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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61 & Overture, Op. 21

Ceri-Lyn Cissone (narrator), Alexander Knox (narrator) & Frankie Wakefield (narrator) London Symphony Orchestra & The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd February 2017
BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Orchestral Choice
Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Musique Symphonique
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
The Times Records of the Year, 2017

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Special offer. Andreas Scholl: Purcell - O Solitude

Andreas Scholl (countertenor), with Christophe Dumaux (countertenor) Accademia Bizantina, Stefano Montanari

BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Vocal Award Winner

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In War & Peace | Harmony Through Music

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev

Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, Editor's Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Recital
ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Solo Vocal Album
Opera, January 2017, Recording of the Month

Battle Cry: She Speaks

Helen Charlston, Toby Carr

Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Choral & Song Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Vocal
Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Concept Album of the Year

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Strauss: Ariadne on Naxos | Sung in English: translation by Christopher Cowell

Christine Brewer (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Robert Dean Smith (Bacchus/The Tenor), Alice Coote (Composer), Gillian Keith (Zerbinetta), Stephen Fry (Major-Domo), Alan Opie (Music Master), John Graham-Hall (Dancing Master/Scaramuccio), Roderick Williams (Harlequin), Matthew Rose (Truffaldino), Wynne Evans (Brighella), Paul Keohone (Wig-Maker), Dean Robinson (Footman), Declan McCusker (An Officer) Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Richard Armstrong

Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Opera
BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Opera Choice
Building A Library, September 2025, Recommended Recording

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Francis Poulenc: Orchestral Works

BBC Concert Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey

BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022
Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022

Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons

Presto Recording of the Week, 27th May 2016
Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Orchestral
ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Orchestral Performance

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Florent Schmitt: Suites from 'Antoine et Cléopâtre' & Symphony No. 2

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo

Presto Recording of the Week, 9th March 2018
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018

Special offer. Philarmonica

Le Consort

International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental

Special offer. Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 & King Christian II Suite

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020

Special offer. Britten - Songs

Amidst the Shades

Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann

Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice

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Ian Bostridge (tenor) & Graham Johnson (piano)

Penguin Guide, Rosette

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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works

Sarah Fox (soprano) Hallé, Sir Mark Elder

BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, Disc of the month
Gramophone Magazine, February 2015, Editor's Choice
Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Orchestral

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New. Il Signor Lulli

Les Paladins, Jérôme Correas

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Schubert: Aus Der Ferne

Signum Quartett

Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Nouveauté
Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Chamber Music (quartet)

Khachaturian: Piano Concerto

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel

Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
Presto Team Choices, February 2025

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Mendelssohn

Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano), London Mozart Players, Jonathan Bloxham

Presto Recording of the Week, 9th August 2024

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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphonies; Concertos; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District

Yuja Wang (piano), Baiba Skride (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, New England Conservatory Symphonic Choir, Andris Nelsons

Presto Recording of the Week, 28th March 2025

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New. Under the Cover | Jean-Sigismond Cousser's Commonplace Book

Les Muffatti

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Bizet - L' Arlésienne Orchestral Suites

Les Musiciens du Louvre & Chœur de l’opéra de Lyon, Marc Minkowski

BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, Orchestral Choice
Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Disc of the Month
Penguin Guide, Rosette
Building A Library, February 2025, Recommended Recording (L'Arlesienne)

Special offer. Piers Lane goes to town again

Piers Lane (piano)

Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, Editor's Choice

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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

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New. Legends of Cyprus: Othello

Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, Nimrod Borenstein

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Special offer. Rachmaninov - Solo Piano Works

Simon Trpčeski (piano)

Building a Library, March 2006, First Choice
BBC Music Magazine, April 2005, Disc of the month
Penguin Guide, Rosette

Elgar: Falstaff, Orchestral Songs; Grania and Diarmid

Roderick Williams (baritone) BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis

Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
Gramophone Magazine, January 2018, Editor's Choice
Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Symphonique
Diapason d’Or, April 2018, Nouveauté

Nielsen: Orchestral Music

Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard

Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Orchestral
BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, Orchestral Choice
Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
Gramophone Magazine, April 2007, Disc of the Month

Prokofiev for Two | All works transcribed for two pianos by Sergei Babayan.

Martha Argerich (piano) & Sergei Babayan (piano)

Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Chamber Music Recording (20th/21st-Century Music)
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Nouveauté

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Special offer. Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7, The Tempest

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali

New. Karol Szreter: The Parlophon & Odeon Recordings

Karol Szreter (piano)

Presto Team Choices, September 2026

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Overtures from the British Isles, Vol. 1

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Rumon Gamba

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Special offer. Alexander Mackenzie: Orchestral Music

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins

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Music For A While - Baroque Melodies

Anne Sofie Von Otter (Soprano), Jakob Lindberg (guitar & lute), Anders Ericson (theorbo) & Jory Vinikour (harpsichord & organ)

Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice

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Contemporaries of Mozart - Georg Joseph (Abbé) Vogler

London Mozart Players, Matthias Bamert

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Special offer. Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1-7

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund

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Special offer. Sibelius: Symphony No. 4, The Wood Nymph & Valse Triste

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Weber: Complete Overtures

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Howard Griffiths

Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, Editor's Choice

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Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 11

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy

Special offer. Harnoncourt - Beethoven

Gidon Kremer & Pierre-Laurent Aimard Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Building a Library, January 2015, First Choice
Gramophone Awards, 1992, Recording of the Year
Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
Building a Library, January 2020, Also Recommended

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Special offer. Debussy: The Complete Works

Artists include Martha Argerich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Samson François, Renaud Capuçon, Natalie Dessay, André Cluytens, François-Xavier Roth, Jean Martinon, Michel Plasson, Kent Nagano and Carlo Maria Giulini

Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Archive

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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 'Choral'

Aase Nordmo Løvberg (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Hans Hotter (bass-baritone), Philharmonia Chorus (Wilhelm Pitz chorus master), Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9

Ingeborg Wenglor (soprano), Annelies Burmeister (alto), Martin Ritzmann (tenor) & Rolf Kühne (bass) Czech Philharmonic Orchestra & Prague Philharmonic Choir, Paul Kletzki

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Schubert: Nacht & Träume | Lieder with orchestra

Wiebke Lehmkuhl (contralto), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor) Insula orchestra & accentus, Laurence Equilbey

Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2017

Special offer. Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestera, Sir Simon Rattle

Gramophone Magazine, May 2006, Disc of the Month
Building a Library, October 2019, Also Recommended

Special offer. Favourite Baroque Classics

The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman

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Fairy Tales

Regula Mühlemann (soprano), CHAARTS Chamber Artists

Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year
Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Vocal

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