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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
The Tenth is a symphony into which many have been tempted to read parallels with Shostakovich's life...The refreshing thing is that Petrenko treats it as a great symphony in its own right...All... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Orchestral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2011, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Orchestral
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Folk Tales, Vol. 2: British and Irish Miniatures Gerald Peregrine (cello), Antony Ingham (piano), Lynda O'Connor (violin)
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Howells: Stabat Mater
RecommendedBenjamin Hulett (tenor), Alison Hill (soprano)
The Bach Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill
Though there is much emotional turbulence in this music, Hill maintains a compelling life and forward momentum in Howells's immensely contrapuntal score...The Bach Choir has a palpable vibrancy... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Choral
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American Classics - Amy Beach
RecommendedAlan Feinberg (piano)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Schermerhorn
Composed in 1898-9, Amy Beach's ambitious, singularly impressive Piano Concerto is at long last coming in from the cold. An expansively rhetorical Allegro moderato launches the work before a... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2003, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
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I hadn’t expected Howells’s piano music to occupy such different sound-worlds to his better-known works, the spare Satie-esque whimsy of Harlequin Dreaming and the Debussy-ish Phantasy and Summer... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Ives - The Three Orchestral Sets
RecommendedMalmö Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus, James Sinclair
James Sinclair leads excellent performances. The Malmo Symphony sounds comfortable in the American idiom, and the recording is spacious, sweet sounding in the strings…You should have the Naxos... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2008, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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…This is first-rate music, still too little known to audiences outside of Russia. All of the shorter works here are gems, with O Tebe raduyetsia a particular standout. What a gorgeous piece... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 'Leningrad'
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Petrenko draws our attention to how much of the Symphony is marked pianissimo. No one has rendered more hauntingly the hushed writing for bass clarinet and flutes...Fresh, beautifully phrased... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, Orchestral Choice
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Building A Library, December 2021, Also Recommended
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Vaughan Williams: Phantasy Quintet & String Quartets
RecommendedGarfield Jackson (viola)
Maggini Quartet
Why isn't Vaughan Williams's Second Quartet part of the international chamber repertory? Played as eloquently as this it seems unarguably a masterpiece, one specifically of its time: 1942-3.... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Winner - Chamber
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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His sensitivity is abundantly demonstrated and he’s always careful to avoid climaxes becoming overbearing or, heaven forbid, percussive… Where I have slight reservations about the playing is... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2022, Recommended Recording
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