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Pike’s exceptional sensitivity to tonal inflection and temporal flexibility works wonders in Szymanowski’s Mythes…She invests [the Karłowicz] with such open-air freshness and gentle affection... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, Chamber Choice
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Saint-Saëns - Messe de Requiem
RecommendedMarie-Paule Dotti (soprano), Guillemette Laurens (mezzo-soprano), Luca Lombardo (tenor), Nicolas Testé (bass)
Coro della Radio Svizzera, Lugano, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Diego Fasolis
Diego Fasolis conducts the Coro della Radio Svizzera and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in an engaging account of the Requiem. The appealing team of soloists is led by Marie-Paule Dotti,... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Mendelssohn: Organ Sonatas Nos. 1-6, Op. 65
RecommendedWilliam Whitehead (organ in the Ballroom, Buckingham Palace)
Whitehead need not apologise for the apparent perversity of trying to recreate the frustrating performing conditions Mendelssohn would have found on his British tours… his immaculately articulated... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th December 2009
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How good it is to have these deeply sympathetic performances (which were recorded in the presence of the grateful composer at St Alban's Church, Holborn, over one December day in 1975) restored... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Re-issue of the Month
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Special offer. Barber: Symphony No. 2 & Adagio for Strings and Bristow: Symphony
RecommendedDetroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
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Building a Library, June 2006, First Choice
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The first prerequisite of great Chopin playing is arguably beauty of tone, as well as refinement and variety...Lortie is a model Chopinist: eloquent but never sentimental, elegant without ever... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, Instrumental Choice
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there are times when a recording of a popular classic comes along that's so fresh, understanding and heartfelt that it demands to be approached solely on its own terms. Paul Watkins's Elgar... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2012, Editor's Choice
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Verdi: Falstaff
Andrew Shore (Falstaff), Yvonne Kenny (Alice Ford), Ashley Holland (Ford), Susan Gritton (Nannetta), Barry Banks (Fenton), Stuart Kale (Dr Caius), Rebecca de Pont Davies (Mistress Quickly), Alice Coote (Meg Page), Clive Bayley (Pistol), Richard Roberts (Bardolph)
English National Opera Chorus,...
A strong cast, with every role vividly portrayed; Paul Daniel conducts confidently and enthusiastically. —
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Valeri Polyansky leads the Russian State Symphony Orchestra in a delightful selection of Rachmaninov's less-performed orchestral compositions, including The Isle of the Dead, a tone poem based... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Collegium Musicum 90 rarely get the adulation they deserve. This anthology of overtures by Arne, featuring a who's who of the English period-instrument scene, is a charming disc of beautifully... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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