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Vaughan Williams: Job, Old King Cole & The Running Set
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Trepidation stalks Manze's Job from the outset, the ostensibly pastoral opening shaded by an undertow of dark foreboding...All told, this is a Job rich in colour and atmosphere, projected with... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2023, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 version)
Recommendedand Rossini/Respighi: La Boutique fantasque (compiled by Malcolm Sargent)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
[In the Rossini/Respighi] Petrenko has the idiosyncratic fun of a true ballet master...Petrushka, though, remains the selling-point. If not quite the most vivid throughout, it too has original... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Stravinsky: The Firebird & Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d'Or
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Petrenko’s preference for slow tempos over flexible drama might make for fidgety audiences in the concert hall…It just about works on CD, and then all hell’s let loose in perfectly-balanced... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th December 2018
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Khachaturian: Spartacus & Gayaneh Ballets (excerpts)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
Karabits elicits thrillingly bright tone from the Bournemouth players who take naturally to the off-beat rhythms and joyful, holiday atmosphere of both ballets. The strings are rich-toned in... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, Editor's Choice
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In general these are honest, respectful performances. In Dukas’s ballet music La Péri, the complex details are never allowed to swamp the logical argument, and the same goes for the second suite... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022, Debut Recording
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The 'rainbow colours' hinted at in Prokofiev's inspiration, lines by the poet Konstantin Balmont, are fully captured in this chameleonic performance. There are mysteries and passing hints of... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
and works by Debussy and Rachmaninov
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, Vasily Petrenko
This is a searing account of the Rite. Petrenko judges the speeds acutely, always insistent, without simply trying to set landspeed records, and there’s a visceral energy to the RLPO’s playing,... — More…
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Transatlantic
Stathis Karapanos, Chen Reiss (soprano), Marie-Pierre Langlame, Noah Bendix-Balgey
The Berlin Academy of American Music, Garrett Keast
A celebration of the love affair enjoyed between composers and America, this is a winning collection of works which demands repeated listening. Craig Urquhart’s Lamentation for Flute and Orchestra... — More…
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Sensitive cello playing throughout. The recording could be a little cleaner. — More…
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Prokofiev & Kabalevsky: Cello works
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) & Alexei Grynyuk & Petr Limonov (pianos)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Never has this often underestimated work [the Prokofiev Sonata] seemed more rich in incident and so eloquently expressive. — More…
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