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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
RecommendedSimone Kermes (Fiordiligi), Malena Ernman (Dorabella), Anna Kasyan (Despina), Kenneth Tarver (Ferrando), Christopher Maltman (Guglielmo), Konstantin Wolff (Don Alfonso)
MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis
There's an undeniably a strong sense of personality to everything the conductor does...Most notable of all is the interventionist nature of the continuo, with the fortepiano, in particular,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Pierre Boulez Conducts Stravinsky
RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Ensemble Intercomporain, Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
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Grammy Awards, 13th Awards (1970), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 13th Awards (1970), Best Orchestral Performance
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Re-issue of the Month
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Grammy Awards, 16th Awards (1973), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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The Best of Glenn Gould's Bach
RecommendedGlenn Gould (piano), Glenn Gould (organ)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann
The ‘Best of Glenn Gould’s Bach’ has some of his greatest Bach recordings, an interesting and well written essay on Gould’s Bach, and as a real bonus a DVD of the complete 1981 Goldberg Variations... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th September 2012
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Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 82 - 87 (the Paris Symphonies)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
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Thielemann inclines to the Romantics. Like all too many conductors, he ignores Bruckner’s marking of two slow beats per bar in the calmly pacing opening paragraph...the recorded sound strikes... —
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Ma's sound in this album has a rather lived-in quality, golden allure replaced by gritty articulacy. Physical exertion and goal-driven intensity give way to nonchalant calm. This works in a... —
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Piotr Beczala (tenor), Gerold Huber (piano)
Bereft of its orchestral colouring it surely presents a formidable challenge. Yet the plasticity of Gerhaher’s story telling is enhanced as, freed from breasting a large ensemble with exaggerated... —
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Emanuel Ax plays Haydn Sonatas and Concertos
RecommendedEmanuel Ax (piano)
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra
There is no period-instrument rethinking here; instead, big-boned, handsomely played interpretations bring out Haydn's pre-Beethoven side. —
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Grammy Awards, 37th Awards (1994), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Grammy Awards, 46th Awards (2003), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Colors of Bach
Eldbjørg Hemsing (violin), Norwegian String Quintet (chamber ensemble), Tim Allhoff, Martynas (accordion), Louisa Tuck
the best music on this album is the untouched, and at times quite beautiful, performance of the Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major. Here, the musicians are notably more energetic, the phrasing... —
