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Regamey: Quintet & Schoenberg: String Trio
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Ilya Gringolts (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), Reto Bieri (clarinet), Bram van Sambeek (bassoon), Alexander Lonquich (piano)
The Schoenberg is tortured and dramatic, yet cohesive and purposeful – while the virtuosic Regamey has a gripping, rhythmic drive. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, 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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If, like me, you’re a fan of Naouri’s handsome, imposing portraits of operatic villains, the soft-focus delights of this beautifully intimate recital of French song might take you a little by... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2020
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the All-Night Vigil appears here a denuded museum artefact, displayed alongside a distantly related musical tradition that ’s presented in a more vibrant and authentic style. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Choral Music
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Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Capriccio & Octuor
Nathalia Milstein (piano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Mikko Franck
it’s beauty rather than the beast that you get here...on this showing Franck is more of a sophisticate than he is a primitivist. — More…
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Record Review, 24th September 2022, Record of the Week
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' & Strauss: Metamorphosen
Sinfonia Grange au Lac, Esa-Pekka Salonen
The Strauss, to open, shimmers with deconstructed clarity, its intertwining lines following their own course and yet largely in the pursuit of these whole – there is no over-egged intensity... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Bartók & Ligeti: Ensemble Intercontemporain
Jérôme Comte (clarinet), Diego Tosi (violin) & Sébastien Vichard (piano), Gilles Durot, Samuel Favre (percussions) & Dimitri Vassilakis, Sébastien Vichard (pianos), Hidéki Nagano (piano), Pierre Strauch (cello), Jeanne-Marie Conquer (violin)
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher
Others may have taken the opening Vivace of Ligeti's Piano Concerto at more of a lick, but the precision here packs a punch, and there's a sheer sense of fun as the final two movements develop... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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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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