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Rachel Portman: Tipping Points, Vivaldi/Kerschek: The New Four Seasons
WDR Funkhausorchester, Niklas Liepe (violin), Erina Yashima, Patrick Lange
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Classic Without Limits
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto Recording of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - World Premiere Recording of the Year
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L'Opéra
Recommendeddeluxe version
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Sonya Yoncheva (soprano), Ludovic Tézier (baritone)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bertrand de Billy
Kaufmann is a consummate artist who rethinks everything that he sings…You can almost forgive the hooded, crooner-like tone that [he] favours when his characters are interrogating their souls.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th September 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Nominated - Solo Recital
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L'Opéra
Recommendedjewelcase version
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Ludovic Tézier (baritone), Sonya Yoncheva (soprano)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bertrand de Billy
Kaufmann is a consummate artist who rethinks everything that he sings…You can almost forgive the hooded, crooner-like tone that [he] favours when his characters are interrogating their souls.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th September 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Nominated - Solo Recital
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Beethoven's World - Clement: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Mirijam Contzen (violin), WDR Sinfonieorchester, Reinhard Goebel
It’s fascinating to consider these two works as a sort of call and response to Beethoven’s own concerto, which Clement commissioned and premiered in between composing the pair – Beethoven was... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2020
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Concerto (Violin)
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Essential George Gershwin
RecommendedGeorge Gershwin (piano), Ethel Waters (vocal), Tommy Dorsey (trombone), Mannie Klein (trumpet), Ben Selvin (violin), Jimmy Dorsey (clarinet), Buck & Bubbles, Buck Washington (vocal, piano), John "Bubbles" Sublett (vocal), Joe Bushkin (piano), Artie Shaw (clarinet), Bunny Berigan (trumpet), Cozy...
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Grammy Awards, 19th Awards (1976), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Fritz Reiner conducts Rimsky Korsakov & Stravinsky
RecommendedChicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner
Reiner's magnificent (1956) Scheherazade stands out among the many superb RCA recordings made in Chicago in the 1950s...Sidney Harth, the orchestral leader, naturally balanced, plays most seductively...The... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building A Library, October 2023, Also Recommended - Scheherazade
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Lise Cristiani
RecommendedSol Gabetta (cello), Cappella Gabetta, Irina Zahharenkova (piano), with Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello), Luca Magariello (cello)
There is a real art to drawing the emotive power from a phrase without overburdening it, and Sol Gabetta demonstrates that unfailingly throughout this recital...the cellist strikes right at... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th December 2025
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The performances range from a touchingly direct version of Maria from West Side Story, to a distinctly mannered You’ll Never Walk Alone from Carousel, which Kaufmann delivers in an oddly halting... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Film Music/Score of the Year
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New. Sommernachtskonzert 2026: Schönbrunn
Summer Night Concert 2026
Vienna Philharmonic, Lorenzo Viotti
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Those who are searching for perfection can stop here...this set, the first solo recording from Russo-German pianist Igor Levit, sets a new standard that will be very difficult to surpass...I... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Newcomer Award
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Building a Library, February 2018, Also Recommended
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