Hyperion
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From the vaults of Westminster Cathedral
RecommendedA procession of chant & polyphony from Advent to Christmas & the Epiphany and Presentation of our Lord
Matthew Martin (organ accompaniment), & Martin Baker (organ improvisations)
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Martin Baker
Epiphany brings Monteverdi's Messa a 4 da cappella, whose polyphonic complexities elicit a confidently assertive response from the choir, with fine internal balances between the voice sections. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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Shelley is a first-rate advocate, with passage-work of crystalline clarity, light-footed pedalling, and communicating a sense of deep commitment to this unjustly under-rated repertoire. The... —
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The standard of the songs is impressively high… Julius Drake shines in all of them. So, too, does Finley, with his sensitivity to the fore in the fine Heine settings, bringing emotional engagement... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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Britten: Violin Concerto & Double Concerto
RecommendedAnthony Marwood (violin), Anthony Marwood (violin) & Lawrence Power (viola), Lawrence Power (viola)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov
Aided by the alert Ilan Volkov, Anthony Marwood and Lawrence Power form a persuasive partnership...we are left in no doubt about the levels of searing commitment behind Marwood's performance.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th January 2012
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 2 - Medtner
RecommendedNikolai Demidenko (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk
This splendid disc is given a fine recording, good orchestral playing from a Scottish orchestra under a Polish conductor and, above all, truly coruscating and poetic playing from the brilliant... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Concerto
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Marc-André Hamelin puts us further in his debt with another superbly played disc of Alkan … [the Symphony’s] big-boned, exorbitantly taxing writing draws appropriately stunning pianism from... —
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After Hamelin's fantastic virtuosity in the outrageously difficult Godowsky Studies on Chopin'sEtudes (for which he won the Gramophone Instrumental Award 2000) these two works for piano and... —
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Everything has been deeply considered. Everything works. Hewitt makes a beautiful, limpid sound; her ornaments are exquisitely precise as well as sounding natural; she uses the subtle shadings... —
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Building a Library, December 2000, Piano Choice
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Supreme artistry. —
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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