Hyperion
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The ensemble brings an extraordinary range and depth of sound to Beach’s closely-worked score…Ohlsson and the Takács Quartet are vividly alert to the [Elgar]’s sense of story…This is a performance... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, Chamber Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2020
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Winner - Chamber
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Any monotony in repeats is avoided by Gugnin’s hypersensitive touch...A well-placed collection of multifacted jewels. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Piano
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Well, the Florestan Trio have done it again – a sure-fire Gramophone Award nominee. Indeed, such is the cumulative emotional impact of these performances that tears welled up during the wonderful... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2006, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Duarte Lobo: Masses, Responsories & motets
RecommendedAlmeno Gonçalves (tenor), Cupertinos, Luís Toscano
Directed by tenor Luís Toscano, Cupertinos is highly responsive to Lobo’s subtly varied settings which, in turn, reflect the nuances of text and liturgy...Throughout, the ensemble’s candid,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Their combined musical imagination feels so intertwined that it emerges seemingly as the natural extension of a single interpretative personality…so keenly attuned are Tiberghien and Ibragimova... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Hamelin kicks off with the late C major Sonata, H50, nailing his virtuoso credentials firmly to the mast with a mercurial account of its opening movement. Some may prefer Schiff's more measured... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, Instrumental Choice
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The Orlandos are so experienced in this repertory that, nearly always, the choice of tempo and tone is spot-on (and tempo is perhaps the most important decision, given that absolute tempos are... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Early Music
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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The Romantic Violin Concerto 2 - Stanford
Anthony Marwood (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
This is a discovery of major importance. Hubert Parry (no mean critic) regarded Stanford's Violin Concerto as one of his finest works, yet it has been played rarely, if at all, since his death... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2001, Disc of the Month
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this latest account impressively combines accuracy with atmosphere in sound of clarity and lustre. Informatively annotated by Paul Griffiths, it can be warmly recommended to those new to and... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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These are unusually expansive works, their first movements each close on 15 minutes' music, prolific in their thematic matter and richly developed. They demand playing that shows a grasp of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2003, Editor's Choice
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