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This King Arthur is a giddy triumph for its artists. Blazing their way through the score, the performers set a new benchmark, delivering a production that’s equally gutsy and gorgeous…Dance... —
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Record Review, 12th January 2019, Disc of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2019, Editor's Choice
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Piazzolla Reflections
Ksenija Sidorova (accordion), Claudio Constantini, Roberto Koch, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Reentko Dirks, Goldmund Quartet, Thomas Henglebrock, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Clark Rundell
Even if Piazzolla fails to cast the spell clearly experienced by Sidorova herself, the artistry of this Latvianborn musician and her instrumental colleagues still makes this album worthwhile.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
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Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé & Chant élégiaque
RecommendedFrankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alain Altinoglu
for this score as Schmitt conceived it, Altinoglu is self-evidently the first choice. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th May 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Coming soon. American Tunes #1
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Knut Johannessen, Roman Patkoló, Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Lambert Orkis (piano), Mutter’s Virtuosi
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Antonini (Italy’s answer to the Pied Piper) coaxes alluring sounds from his battery of instruments (recorders, flute, dulcian, chalumeau), and the 13 members of his ensemble follow with equal... —
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2019, Winner - Musique ancienne
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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The songs are chosen, for the most part, with Véronique Gens’s voice in mind – no longer the bright soprano of 20 years ago, but now a warm and expressive mezzo, ideal in the more soulful melodies... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th April 2020
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Diapason d’Or, May 2020, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Cast in a single movement, this thrilling 35-minute work [Mythos] explores new pathways for the composer in an idiom entirely modern and his own while at the same time, inspired by Finno-Ugric... —
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Diapason d’Or, April 2020, Critique
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th March 2020
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What's Next Vivaldi?
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Angelo Calvo, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
No one cooks up a Vivaldian storm like Patricia Kopatchinskaja. The opening movement of La tempesta di mare is a churning cauldron of tempestuous fury that would surely have terrified Poseidon... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Concerto
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Nino Rota: Chamber Music
Daishin Kashimoto, Emmanuel Pahud, Eric Le Sage, Paul Meyer, François Meyer, Gilbert Audin, Benoît de Barsony, Joaquín Riquelme García, Claudio Bohórquez, Olivier Thiery, Aurélien Pascal
[Rota] spent several decades working on-and-off on his five-movement Nonetto and, as such, it offers a tribute to the Italian composer’s changing styles. It receives a glorious outing here at... —
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Diapason d'Or, September 2021, Nouveauté
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Musique de chambre
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The ensemble continues to do what it does best but retains a freshness and questing spirit that sometimes eludes groups of comparable vintage, a sense of joyous music-making that marked them... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Early Music
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