Pentatone
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Giorgini’s affinity with this reflective music is evident from the outset. Formidable technical ability is matched by the architectural sense, harmonic sensibility and coloristic range this... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, nstrumental Choice
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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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Moser gives us an exciting, high-tension ride with an impressive sense of structure. He's a musician of alacrity, power and style: virtuosic passages benefit from his fleet effortlessness. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, Editor's Choice
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Piemontesi’s instinctive good taste means he never indulges in histrionics, and operates on the principle that understatement can carry more emotional power than its converse. This performance... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Instrumental Choice
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Bruckner’s superb choral works unfortunately tend to be eclipsed by his own symphonies; ditto Michael Haydn by his famous brother. In this fine coupling, both enjoy their deserved moment in... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera
Freddie de Tommaso (Riccardo), Saioa Hernández (Amelia), Lester Lynch (Renato), Elisabeth Kulman (Ulrica), Annika Gerhards (Oscar)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Marek Janowski
De Tommaso turns out to be the real deal, singing with a confidence and ease that seem astonishing for a singer who was only 28 at the time of the recording, His is a real *spinto* tenor: bright... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2023, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Wagner: Parsifal
RecommendedEvgeny Nikitin (Amfortas), Christian Elsner (Parsifal), Franz-Josef Selig (Gurnemanz), Michelle DeYoung (Kundry/Stimme aus der Hohe), Dimitry Ivaschenko (Titurel), Eike Wilm Schulte (Klingsor)
Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
It has spontaneity of something which has sunk so deeply into the performers' minds and souls that they can throw caution to the wind and still be accurate...Elsner is a wonderfully sensitive... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th March 2012
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Award for Technical Excellence
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Opera, August 2012, Recording of the Month
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There is much playing here of a clarity, velocity and exactitude that can make the jaw drop, and he, Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony seem to be on the same conceptual page throughout.... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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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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Missy Mazzoli & Royce Vavrek: Proving Up
RecommendedOpera Omaha, International Contemporary Ensemble, Christopher Rountree
John Moore as Pa (whose heartiness devolves into a kind of heartlessness) and Talise Trevigne (who is heartbreaking in her grieved outpouring in Part 4) anchor the performance as the parents;... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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