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Special offer. Wagner: The Mastersingers
RecommendedMargaret Curphey (Eva), Alberto Remedios (Walther), Norman Bailey (Hans Sachs), Derek Hammond-Stroud (Beckmesser), Ann Robson (Magdalene), Gregory Dempsey (David), Noel Mangin (Pogner), Stafford Dean (Nightwatchman)
Sadlers Wells Chorus & Sadlers Wells Opera Orchestra, Reginald Goodall
It's eminently listenable, capturing the musical and spiritual glow of Goodall's orchestra and voices, masterfully embodying the comedy's entwining pain and laughter. …this is not only something... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th June 2008
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Archive
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Storgårds in Manchester gives an appropriately humanised interpretation, set on a wide sound stage that is one of Chandos’s natural best. The cinematic opening twitches with inner life, all... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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exceptionally searching readings...These are dedicated performances which understandingly bring out the contrast between the expansive Quintet, bold in rhetoric, and the more intimate Quartet,... —
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Building a Library, April 2003, First Choice
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Falla: La Vida Breve
Nancy Fabiola Herrera (Salud), Aquiles Machado (Paco), Cristina Faus (La Abuela), José Antonio López (Tío Sarvaor), Raquel Lojendio (Carmela), Josep Miquel Ramon (Manuel)
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
While there’s plenty of Iberian flavour to this recording, including a flamenco cantor of properly reedy vocal depth, Mena never lets us forget that the work is in that Italian [verismo] tradition…[Fabiola... —
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Opera, June 2019, Disc of the Month
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Lortie more than meets the pianistic and musical challenge of Fauré’s unshowy virtuosity, his riding of each dappled ebb and flow of the Barcarolles reflecting a mature mastery. Nor is there... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, Instrumental Choice
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Herbert Howells - Orchestral Works
Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Moray Welsh (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
A repackaging of music rarely heard in Howell's lifetime. Not on grounds of quality, surely: two movements for cello and orchestra, a characterful suite The B's, and a song-cycle In Green Ways... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2005, Re-issue of the Month
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Bliss: The Beatitudes, Introduction and Allegro & God save the Queen
RecommendedEmily Birsan (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis
There is no doubting Sir Andrew Davis’s grasp of The Beatitudes, and he steers a broadly authoritative performance, with incisive, committed playing from the BBC Symphony Orchestra…Davis’s punchy,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Like to the Lark
Jennifer Pike (violin), Maria Forsström (mezzo-soprano)
The Swedish Chamber Choir, Simon Phipps
Listening to Simon Philipps’s immaculately accomplished Swedish Chamber Choir is rather like sinking gently into a warm bath bubbling over with your favourite scented lotions…This album combin[es]... —
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Record Review, 16th November 2019, Disc of the Week
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Il Cannone - Francesca Dego plays Paganini's violin
Francesca Dego (violin), Francesca Leonardi (piano)
Dego has an expressive touch, skittering over the strings, yet finding plenty of attack in Szymanowski’s Trois Caprices. Corigliano’s Red Violin Caprices are at times spellbinding, descending... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2021
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…Tsar's Bride… thrills with the riding rhythms of Ivan's rapacious followers, the oprichniki; Sinaisky takes it at a spacious but still exciting pace. The gentler but richly-hued aspects of... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Orchestral Choice
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