Hyperion
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This is a really good performance [of the Pastoral]. On one level Martyn Brabbins is superbly alert to the intricacies of the musical texture. After on hearing I got the score and listened again... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th January 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, Orchestral Choice
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American Polyphony
RecommendedDavid Allsopp (countertenor), Christopher Lowrey (countertenor) & Robert Millett (percussion)
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
This is the finest performance of Barber's Agnus Dei I've heard by any choir, live or on record…a wonderful recital, not to be missed. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th July 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, Disc of the month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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What comes across most winningly is the ebb and flow of the work: the more inward passages are allowed to breathe; the extrovert ones are absolutely fiery. It's not a work that could ever be... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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If you are yet to be convinced by Valentin Alkan's music, this intelligent and magnificently played programme, displaying contrasting sides of the composer's personality, is for you. As for... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2007, Editor's Choice
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One feature of his music is its wide range of historical reference…clothed in Park’s own musical language, which is contemporary in orientation but with resonant harmony which falls easily on... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Choral
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Intimate and poetic, this pianism which delicately suggests rather than making statements. A lovely hour and a quarter. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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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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New. Reformation
RecommendedKeyboard Works By William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull & Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano)
Less dramatic [than Kit Armstrong's 2021 album] but more even-tempered and sometimes even delightfully sentimental, Momen’s approach is different but no less satisfying. I admired Armstrong’s... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th July 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Early Music
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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Boccherini: Music of the Angels
RecommendedCello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets
Steven Isserlis (cello), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
in the String Quintet in D minor G280 – the album’s centrepiece – Isserlis and friends entwine Boccherini’s lyrical strands into a felicitous musical conversation: balanced, measured and fully... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st November 2024
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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This is music that by its very nature requires gentle coaxing and affectionate warmth to sound its best, and the Leonore responds with playing that possesses a radiant inner glow. Indeed, it... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd December 2022
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