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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Overture Les francs-juges
RecommendedChicago Symphony Chorus (chorus)
Sir Georg Solti
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Classical Album of the Year
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Benjamin Grosvenor plays Rhapsody in Blue
RecommendedBenjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd
reservations pale into Beckmesserish scratchings besides the delights of this disc and especially of Grosvenor's pianism. I can only concur with other critics who hear in his tone and phrasing... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th August 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2012, Editor's Choice
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Barenboim sets subtly different tempos for passages that often run directly on from each other, but he also pushes round corners at which other conductors linger…the Staatskapelle Berlin sustain... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Orchestral
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Gramophone Awards, 1978, Winner - Orchestral
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Sibelius: Complete Symphonies & Tone Poems
RecommendedLaurence Thorstenberg, Salvatore Accardo (violin)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
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Building a Library, September 2013, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
5 CDs
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Stravinsky: Chant Funèbre & Le Sacre du printemps
RecommendedLucerne Festival Orchestra, Sophie Koch (mezzo), Riccardo Chailly
Chailly draws out the colours vividly with his Lucerne orchestra, silky strings and rounded woodwind voices to the fore. The Funeral Song is more than a curiosity…It’s a very good performance... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th January 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The World of Offenbach
RecommendedDame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Sumi Jo (soprano), Régine Crespin (soprano)
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, London Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Volksopernorchester, Richard Bonynge, Ernest Ansermet, Alain Lombard
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye, Pavane pour une infante défunte
RecommendedMontreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Winner - Engineering
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Instrumental
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Bychkov’s Russian roots make him mindful of Tchaikovsky’s classicism, the emotion always ‘contained’ until it can be contained no more. The explosive development section is a controlled panic... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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