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The opening movement of Schubert’s penultimate piano sonata, D959, is exquisitely shaped in this latest offering by Eric Lu, the impressive US pianist who won the 2018 Leeds International Piano... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th December 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, Instrumental Choice
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His is a Mozart of laser-cut clarity and exactitude, impeccably sustained melodic lines and clear-cut structures – enthralling, if you value such things above all else. — More…
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Rondeau’s interpretations of this music suggest that for the likes of Haydn, Clementi, Beethoven and Debussy, harpsichord sonorities were very much in their mind’s ear. In particular, Rondeau’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Bohemian Tales
RecommendedAugustin Hadelich (violin), Charles Owen (piano), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Jakub Hruša
How warmly his dolce playing seems to smile… Note, too, the way Hadelich suggests a wiry-sounding folk fiddle in the finale’s D minor interlude… Jakub Hrůša has the Bavarian RSO playing with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Instrumentalist of the Year
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Rossini: Messa di Gloria
RecommendedEleonora Buratto (soprano), Teresa Iervolino (contralto), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), Michael Spyres (tenor), Carlo Lepore (bass), Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Pappano and the combined choral and orchestral forces of the Accademia Nazionale de Santa Cecilia who exuberantly inhabit a work that seems determined to throw a wild, operatic flourish up to... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Choral Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year (Spyres)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Bizet: Carmen
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (Carmen), Jonas Kaufmann (Don José), Genia Kühmeier (Micaëla), Kostas Smoriginas (Escamillo), Christian van Horn (Zuniga), Andrè Schuen (Moralès), Christina Landshammer (Frasquita), Rachel Frenkel (Mercédès), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Remendado) & Simone del Savio (Dancairo)
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this studio recording of Bizet’s opera compels attention for a variety of reasons...[Rattle and Kozena] stress their wish to return to the “chamber feeling” of the French tradition into which... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th August 2012
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Alison Balsom: Paris
RecommendedAlison Balsom (trumpet), with Miloš Karadaglić (guitar)
The Guy Barker Orchestra, Guy Barker
This potpourri of a recital is...very much of its own time, eclectically flavoured in its collaborative elements and juxtaposition of music languages [sic], and deftly underpinned by Balsom's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th September 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
RecommendedKarita Mattila, Thomas Moser, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Quasthoff, Philip Langridge
Rundfunkchor Berlin, MDR-Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Ernst Sennf Choir, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2002, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, March 2017, First Choice
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Elgar: Violin Concerto & Introduction and Allegro
RecommendedNigel Kennedy (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
Kennedy's first recording of the Elgar Concerto is aflame with a young man's passionate inspiration, though never lacking subtler nuance, while Handley simply breathed Elgar like no-one else. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Winner - Concerto
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Mahler: Song Cycles
RecommendedJanet Baker
Hallé Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, John Barbirolli
The songs of the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen ('Songs of a Wayfarer') are quoted from Mahler's First Symphony and the fresh, springtime atmosphere is shared by both works. The orchestration... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2001, Runner-Up
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Building a Library, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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