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Their interpretation [of the Messiaen] and the close-focused recording, featuring an overtone-rich, almost trumpet-like clarinet, are ideal for the episodes dominated by birdsong and dancelike... — More…
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Forbidden, yet seldom forbidding, Appl’s exquisitely cultivated fruits are ripe for plucking, and deserve to be consumed with unalloyed relish! — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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Eric Montalbetti: Chamber Music
Harmonieuses Dissonances
Alexander Vorontsov, Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Pierre Génisson, Delphine Haidan, Hidéki Nagano, Quatuor Les Dissonances, Eric-Maria Couturier, Hae Sun Kang
Each of the works contained on this disc receives a superlative reading—every one of them requires top-flight virtuosos to bring off, and Montalbetti has attracted an amazing group of such performers... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2020
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Debussy: C'est l'extase - La mer
Vannina Santoni (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mikko Franck
Vannina Santori, 36, releases the odors and textures of Verlaine’s verses with her mellow, lyrical, textured voice. There’s no posturing, no phony pear-shaped stuff, but rather a natural narrative... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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'Les girls' have tremendous fun playing up the kinship between Poulenc and Brubeck, and the whole album breathes lightly-worn chic and joie de vivre. Watch out for the final moto perpetuo of... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2018
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Dance With Me
RecommendedLUDWIG Orchestra, Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Lucienne Rénaudin-Vary (trumpet), Berlage Saxophone Quartet
The tautness of the Ludwig Orchestra’s playing – augmented in four dances by the Berlage Saxophone Quartet – echoes that of the best bands of the big band era, and the arrangements are not only... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th March 2022
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Sibelius & Rautavaara: Violin Concertos
Tobias Feldmann (violin), Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
I love the parallels between these two Finnish concertos which Feldman and Kantarow draw out, from the especially ethereal treatment of the opening of the Sibelius (which anticipates the disembodied... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
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Æther
Sarah Aristidou (soloist), Daniel Barenboim, Christian Rivet, Emmanuel Pahud
Orchester des Wandels, Chor der Klangverwaltung, Thomas Guggeis
Can you capture the ineffable? Sarah Aristidou’s remarkable debut disc Æther explores things within and beyond. She is duly shrouded in mist for the booklet pictures, but there is nothing the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Newcomer
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Cellist Pauline Buet and viola player Léa Hennino find beauty in the collision between hard and soft articulation... I Giardini revels in the abrasive melodies, which bear the hallmarks of Shaw’s... — More…
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