Chandos
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Dag Wirén: Sinfonietta, Serenade for Strings, Symphony No. 3 & Divertimento
Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba
There’s no mistaking [Gamba’s] affection for the idiom: his 70-minute anthology would seem intent on seducing the general collector. Very attractive it is too…An eminently recommendable disc. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2018
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Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote (complete ballet); Suite from 'Alegrías'; Pedrelliana
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
Gerhard can be wonderfully imaginative in his visual evocations…Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic play all three works with feeling and flair. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Pictures from Finland
Oulu Sinfonia, Madetoja Music High School's Girls' Choir, The Soma Ensemble, Rumon Gamba
The playing of the Oulu Sinfonia offers quality in every department, with Rumon Gamba's conducting ensuring exemplary attention to detail; the precise shading of string tone in Kajanus's Adagietto... —
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…A significant recording of one of Weinberg’s most ambitious symphonies, and anyone interested in settling the issue of the composer’s achievement will be rewarded by taking a listen. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2023, Editor's Choice
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Verklärte Nacht
RecommendedSchoenberg - Fried - Lehár - Korngold
Christine Rice (mezzo), Stuart Skelton (tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Across the programme Edward Gardner is preternaturally attentive, nailing the volatile blend of schmaltz and suffering that underpins the Lehár; and cloaking the moonbathing opening of the Fried... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st January 2021
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By placing the poignant invocation of 'Mein schöner Stern', emblem-like, at the top of this artfully programmed Schumann recital, Sarah Connolly reveals much of the composer's fervent inwardness... —
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Building a Library, March 2016, Also Recommended
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What [Grieg] does with folk material is so enchanting that, in this beautiful incarnation with the Bergen players delivering so freshly and responding so well to Gardner’s rhythmic drive in... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Orchestral Choice
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Poulenc: Piano Concertos & Aubade
RecommendedLouis Lortie (piano), with Hélène Mercier (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner
[Lortie and Mercier] perform [the Poulenc] with great panache, also capturing the work's more reflective qualities, with Edward Gardner and the BBC Philharmonic providing by turns zestful and... —
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Building a Library, June 2023, Recommended Recording (Piano Concerto in C sharp minor)
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Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 5
Boris Berman (piano) & Horacio Gutierrex (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Berman is incisive in Prokofiev's Concertos Nos 1, 4 and 5, but the highlight of this set is Horacio Gutiérrez's hair-raising playing in Concertos Nos 2 and 3. Terrific orchestral support. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2009, Re-issue of the Month
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Special offer. Wagner: The Valkyrie
Norman Bailey (Wotan), Rita Hunter (Brünnhilde), Alberto Remedios (Siegmund), Margaret Curphey (Sieglinde), Clifford Grant (Hunding), Ann Howard (Fricka)
English National Opera Orchestra, English National Opera Chorus, Reginald Goodall
Valkyrie: There's something inevitable, even eternal about Goodall's long-breathed, fulltoned, often ideally articulated reading. The ENO management's faith in him was handsomely repaid in his... —
