Harmonia Mundi
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A Lionel Tertis Celebration
RecommendedTimothy Ridout (viola), Frank Dupree (piano), James Baillieu (piano)
From imposing sonatas to salon bonbons, these recordings constitute a deft salute not just to Tertis the man and multifaceted musician, but also to an enduring legacy which lives on in distinguished... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Recording of the Month
2 CDs
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Elgar: Viola Concerto & Bloch: Suite For Viola and Orchestra
RecommendedTimothy Ridout (viola), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Ridout’s account of the opening movement is full of richly rhapsodic playing , although the viola suggests more of a wistful musing than the deeper, elegiac contemplation possible on the cello. — More…
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Limelight Magazine, February 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th January 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Winner - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Britten: Violin Concerto, Chamber Works RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Boris Faust (viola), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Jakub Hrůša
Faust’s cadenza has real emotional involvement, and builds urgently towards the final Passacaglia, where conductor Jakub Hrůša leads the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra to a full-toned climax,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th April 2024
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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
RecommendedJulien Behr (Pelléas), Vannina Santoni (Mélisande), Alexandre Duhamel (Golaud), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Geneviève), Jean Teitgen (Arkel), Hadrien Joubert (Yniold)
Les Siècles, Chœur de l'Opéra de Lille François-Xavier Roth
It’s like listening in black and white rather than colour. The music’s generally soft-toned orchestral landscape is both vivid and beautifully shaded...sensitively played and paced under Roth’s... — More…
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Opera, April 2022, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th March 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Opera
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
3 CDs
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[El sombrero de tres picos] The performance quickly settles down into one of the most witty, colorful, and absorbing sensual of the work’s recent outings. — More…
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
RecommendedMarion Ralincourt (flute)
Les Siècles & Ensemble Aedes, François-Xavier Roth
There are some excellent things on this disc: full rein given to the ballet’s explosive side, often underplayed; as part of that, the wide range observed in crescendo markings, the underplaying... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Orchestral
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Building A Library, February 2022, Also Recommended
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Nadia & Lili Boulanger: Les Heures Claires
RecommendedThe Complete Songs
Lucile Richardot (mezzo), Stéphane Degout (baritone), Raquel Camarinha (soprano), Anne de Fornel (piano), Sarah Nemtanu (violin), Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello)
Pianist Anne de Fornel is the impressive constant factor, capturing the refined emotional nuances of these exquisite works, while mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot takes the lion’s share of the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th February 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Shortlisted - Song
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Winner - Vocal Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Vocal
3 CDs
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Debussy: Les Trois Sonates, The Late Works
RecommendedThe Three Sonatas
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Tanguy de Williencourt (piano), Magali Mosnier (flute), Antoine Tamestit viola), Xavier de Maistre (harp), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Javier Perianes (piano)
Until recently this music was almost invariably viewed and experienced through a prism of 19th-century rhetoric – listening to Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov deftly tracing the evanescent... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th November 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Chamber Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Chamber
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Chamber
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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Ravel: Concertos pour piano & Mélodies
RecommendedLes Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Cédric Tiberghien, Stéphane Degout
By any standards, this is the A Team, and they do not disappoint. Here is Ravel in all his passion and technical wizardry...[Tiberghien] finds any number of colours amid his faultless technical... — More…
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Record Review, 21st May 2022, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Concerto
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Beethoven & Berg: Violin Concertos
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin)
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado
listening to these wonderful performances side by side is cathartic...The journey is vividly delineated from the outset of the Berg. With Abbado drawing sonorities from his first-rate orchestra,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th February 2012
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Orchestral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Disc of the Month
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Concerto
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