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Anita Rachvelishvili
Anita Rachvelishvili (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Giacomo Sagripanti
The voice itself has plenty of potential…It’s all there in the last track, Eboli’s ‘O don fatale’…Rachvelishvili tears into this great aria and has a proper dramatic instinct for where to change... —
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Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2018, Winner - Jahrespreis
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Nominated - Recital Album
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Joshua Bell plays Vivaldi's Four Seasons
RecommendedJoshua Bell (violin and conductor) & John Constable (harpsichord continuo)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
If you like your Baroque music with a Romantic gloss, this will be for you. —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10, etc.
RecommendedPhiladelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 & Scythian Suite
RecommendedDeutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Tugan Sokhiev
This much sought-after maestro takes the first movement broadly enough to lend credence to what might seem mere ideological posturing...There are a few tank-like manoeuvres en route...but everything... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th March 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2016, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 14th Awards (1971), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Grammy Awards, 14th Awards (1971), Classical Album of the Year
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Leif Ove Andsnes: The Beethoven Journey (Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano & direction)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
It's an all-round winner of a disc, with superlative playing from both soloist and orchestra, and a recorded sound to match. Andsnes's view of the music is fairly traditional...[his] pedalling... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2012, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, Orchestral Choice
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A sense of the mannered or precious can debase these songs; Keenlyside's sweeping, robust lyricism is deceptively effortless and exactly right...Dr Johnson once said that every man thinks worse... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Grammy Awards, 16th Awards (1973), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Building A Library, February 2022, Also Recommended
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Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto & Stravinsky: Les Noces
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Nadine Koutcher (soprano), Natalya Buklaga, Vasiliy Korostelev, Stanislav Leontieff, MusicAeterna
Teodor Currentzis
The force of personality, conviction and unanimity of intention with which the musical argument is projected completely bowled me over —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th January 2016
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Chamber
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