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Aaron Jay Kernis & James Newton Howard: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano)
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot, Cristian Măcelaru
This disc showcases three commissions aimed squarely at the Canadian virtuoso’s dazzling skillset. At the centre is a concerto by James Newton Howard…The work is lyrical, wildly cavorting and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Concerto Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Classical Instrumental Solo
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Contemporary Classical Composition
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4
RecommendedMaria João Pires (piano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
Never for a moment does she over-reach herself or force pace and sonority...Few pianists have ever been more true to their own lights and it is hardly surprising that her many performances of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Concerto
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Elgar: Violin Concerto & Serenade for Strings
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
James Ehnes has a lovely ripe vibrato and an expressive openness that touches the heart from his first entry. It's when it comes to the balancing of confessional intimacy with symphonic purposefulness... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th September 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Concerto
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Barber, Walton and Korngold: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey
It's an inspired coupling, as well as a generous one, to have these three high-romantic concertos together. James Ehnes gives superb performances, bringing out their full emotional thrust without... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)
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Mythes is all heightened sensuality and warmth, its heady atmosphere evoked through playing of extraordinary colour, detail and dexterity. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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James Ehnes plays Mendelssohn
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Seattle Chamber Music Octet, Vladimir Ashkenazy
The Octet has rarely sounded more symphonic as Ehnes and his Seattle friends demonstrate all the energy and wit of chamber playing at its most dazzling. Ehnes gives an elegant, refined account... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, October 2021, Recommended Recording
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Vadim Repin, Daniel Hope (violins)
Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Sascha Goetzel
Vadim Repin and Daniel Hope are, not surprisingly, ideally fluent, and the excellent Turkish players recreate Turnage’s enigmatic soundworld with aplomb. This is an uncompromising score, but... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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the Seventh Symphony is emotionally elusive...Daniel Grossmann and the Jewish Chamber Orchestra have the measure of its complexities and deliver a committed performance. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Editor's Choice
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Grieg & Moszkowski: Piano Concertos
Joseph Moog (piano)
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrucken Kaiserslautern, Nicholas Milton
Whatever scintillates and delights is here in super-abundance…from Moog everything sparkles and thunders. A virtuoso to the manner born, notes stream from his fingers like cascading diamonds,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2015, Editor's Choice
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Though these are modern instrument performances they have a clarified quality that shows that Ehnes has been listening to, and has to an extent absorbed, the priorities of period instrument... — More…
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