Harmonia Mundi
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it makes the perfect companion to her memorable recording of Bach’s solo violin works...Faust’s playing is poised and effortless. She uses minimal vibrato, producing a clean, silvery sound. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th October 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Beethoven: Leonore
RecommendedMarlis Petersen (Leonore), Maximilian Schmitt (Florestan), Dimitry Ivashchenko (Rocco), Johannes Weisser (Pizarro), Robin Johannsen (Marzelline), Johannes Chum (Jaqino), Tareq Nazmi (Don Fernando), Florian Feth, Julian Popken (Two Prisoners)
Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
Of the principals only Johannes Weisser’s Don Pizarro disappoints, and even he is strong in the dialogue. Jacobs’s tempos are fast – sometimes a bit skittishly so – and the sublimity one looks... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Record Review, 7th December 2019, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th December 2019
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Opera, March 2020, Disc of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Petersen)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Set alongside a Radu Lupu or Maria João Pires, Lewis’s colours are generally more circumscribed, at times ruggedly clangorous...But his intellectual rigour and dramatic fearlessness counterbalance... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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CPE Bach: Magnificat
RecommendedElizabeth Watts (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (alto), Lothar Odinius (tenor) & Markus Eiche (bass)
RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Hans-Christoph Rademann
a fine reconstruction of the second half of a concert [CPE Bach] conducted in Hamburg on Palm Sunday, 1786. So vivacious is the choral singing and orchestral playing under Hans-Chrisoph Rademann... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th February 2014
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Everything is beautifully played, and there is expressiveness in Webern’s Variations, op. 27, where Tiberghien finds hidden feelings I didn’t expect—the music needn’t send up red flags. He captures... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Four Pieces - Four Pianos
RecommendedSchubert, Chopin, Liszt, Stravinsky
Alexander Melnikov (pianos)
They are all works requiring formidable technical ability, and pianist Alexander Melnikov brings clarity of touch and virtuoso flair to them all, transferring as if effortlessly from instrument... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Winner - Instrumental
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…appropriately enough this final volume ends with the last sonata triptych of Opp. 109-111. Lewis plays all three works with characteristic warmth and beauty of tone, and you're not likely... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th April 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Instrumental
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Löffler is one of the most accomplished baroque oboists around and her performances never disappoints my ears. Her easy virtuosity in outer movements and expressive delicacy in the centrally-placed... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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I enjoyed every moment of these two superbly recorded discs...These are model accounts, in which Lewis, clearly a modest man, is intent on keeping himself out of the picture...I would like to... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st October 2011
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2012, Disc of the Month
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