Hyperion
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it's a superlative performance [of Alborada del gracioso] by any standards, including repeated notes that turn me green with envy. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd September 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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Brahms: The Complete Piano Trios
Recommendedwith Stephen Stirling (horn), with Richard Hosford (clarinet)
The Florestan Trio
Aided by an especially clear, vivid, yet spacious recording, the Florestan Trio and their two colleagues allow us to hear far more of this music than usual – the elaborate decoration of Op 114's... —
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Building a Library, November 2005, First Choice
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Durufle: Requiem & Poulenc: Lenten Motets
Harrison Cole (organ), The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Layton
The choir is magnificent, emerging through former Trinity organ scholar Harrison Cole’s adroitly chosen organ textures in the Introit, yet producing searing radiance in the climax of the Sanctus.... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Choral
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Mendelssohn, Grieg & Hough: Cello Sonatas
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello) & Stephen Hough (piano)
If any reminder were needed that Steven Isserlis is at the top of his game, this is it...Their opening Allegro agitato is a thrilling tour de force, Isserlis sinewy and febrile, Hough's sound... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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This is one of those rare discs that give pleasure and food for thought in equal measure...when [Elgar's chamber music] is played with the kind of understanding shown by these five musicians... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, Disc of the month
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Stanford: Requiem
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson (soprano), Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo-soprano), James Way (tenor), Ross Ramgobin (baritone), University of Birmingham Voices, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Brabbins, who truly understands the language of this music, judges the tempos and balance of the ensemble with instinctive sensitivity...For anyone interested in British choral music of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Choral
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Brahms: The Complete Songs Volume 6 (Ian Bostridge)
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
On the plus side, there's [Bostridge's] customary detailed attention to text; he uses some idiosyncratic tonal colouring to paint in its meanings, but the approach is always intelligent. He... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Boesch's performance...demonstrates huge imaginative variety in characterisation (offering two different voices when necessary, or even three in Loewe's setting of Erlkonig), and moving convincingly... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Vocal Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Editor's Choice
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Volkov shapes all these pieces with what seems perfect understanding of their different shades of gloom or grief, and the playing of the BBC Scottish, helped by Hyperion's first-rate recording,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, Orchestral Choice
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These are two very enjoyable works. Hans Keller's description of the opening pages of the E flat Quartet as 'childish' is staggering – this from the leading campaigner against 'posthumous critical... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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