Pentatone
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Janowski draws on all his operatic experience to make the melodic lines live and sing. Everything has shape and colour, but these frequent dark undertows are never allowed to wallow in sentimentality.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2007, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 'Babi Yar'
RecommendedOleg Tsibulko (bass)
Russian National Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
This beautifully engineered studio recording under Kirill Karabits has all the necessary adrenaline to keep the listener fully engaged. Karabits is particularly effective in negotiating the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th July 2020
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La Passione
Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
Landshamer’s delivery of this material is consistently beautiful, technically top-class, and pitched with laser-like accuracy….matched at every point by the accompaniments, whose range of period-instrument... — More…
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Record Review, 6th August 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Nostalgia
RecommendedBrahms, Mussorgsky, Bartók
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano), Yefim Bronfman (piano)
Kožená’s voice is a glory at the best of times, a coppery sunset of a tone that can send its glow across the whole sky. But if her voice is gigantic, one thing is bigger still, and it’s Bronfman’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Song
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There are some recorded performances so remarkable that to praise them seems insolent. This recording of Beethoven’s largest, longest piano sonata is among that tiny group….What distinguishes... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Even the first song seems tinged with a premonition of the painful trajectory that will lead to the watery embrace of the brook...What follows isn’t so much an initially wide-eyed voyage of... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2020
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Here’s playing that penetrates this music to a degree that surprised even a fully paid-up [Schumann] fan like me. The Emerson are such a fine ensemble, but they’re also four strongly individual... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, Chamber Choice
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Rheinberger’s 1878 Mass in E flat is a glorious aff irmation of the composer’s faith, radiating joy. It is sung with passion and elegance here, as are the earlier, shorter works by Mendelssohn. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral
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Mozart: Sinfonia concertante, Rondo for violin & Concertone in C
RecommendedJulia Fischer & Gordon Nikolic (violins)
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg
Listen to the start of the great Sinfonia Concertante, here replete with an energy which doesn't preclude sensitivity of phrasing or detail of instrumental colour. …Fischer and Nikolic emerge... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Avdeeva reveals her finest qualities as an interpreter in Prokofiev’s monumental Eighth Sonata. The opening is flexible yet tense, never too personal, imbued with a subtle undercurrent of apprehension — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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