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Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedBoris Giltburg (piano), Rhys Owens (trumpet)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Boris Giltburg and Vasily Petrenko are a tight unit, the pianist’s dashing virtuosity and subtlety of touch matched by equally incisive interpolations from the orchestra — More…
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Building A Library, May 2021, Recommended Recording - Piano Concerto No. 2
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Wagner: Die Walküre
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (Wotan), Petra Lang (Brünnhilde), Michelle DeYoung (Fricka), Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Heidi Melton (Sieglinde), Falk Struckmann (Hunding), Sarah Castle (Waltraute), Karen Foster (Gerhilde), Katherine Broderick (Helmwige), Anna Burford (Schwertleite), Elaine McKrill (Ortlinde), Aurhelia...
Drawing airy, luminescent textures from the Hong Kong players, [van Zweden] drives the drama excitingly [and] his singers respond superbly…Goerne brings Wotan’s fearful conflicts of love and... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th November 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Ukrainian Masters
Violin Sonatas By Viktor Kosenko, Myroslav Skoryk & Sergei Bortkiewicz
Solomiya Ivakhiv (violin), Steven Beck (piano)
Viktor Kosenko’s Sonata of 1927 immediately commands attention for its simmering, Slavic-Brahms melodic flavour and innovative approach to form...Ivakhiv makes light work of the angular, neo-Prokofiev... — More…
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Maxwell Davies: Suite from 'The Boyfriend', Suite from 'The Devils' & Other Works
RecommendedPeter Maxwell Davies (piano)
Aquarius, Nicholas Cleobury
In these vintage examples of early-to-middle-period Maxwell Davies, his fairly for popular dance-forms shines through his roguishly gaudy arrangements...Maxwell Davies's score [for The Devils]... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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The result in this recording is not only inspiring but enjoyable, and not only interesting for our times but of splendid and durable quality. The ORF and Jeter provide lively, well balanced... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2021
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Astor Piazzolla: Buenos Aires - Arrangements For Violin and String Orchestra Tomás Cotik, Martingale Ensemble, Ken Selden
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Fischer must have conducted more Haydn than anyone alive. And after half a century’s immersion in these symphonies his delight in the composer’s unpredictable inventiveness and (in the finales)... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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American Classics - William Bolcom
RecommendedMeasha Brueggergosman, Ilona Davidson (soprano), Joan Morris (mezzo-soprano), Nathan Lee Graham (baritone), Thomas Young (tenor), Tommy Morgan (harmonica), Peter Ruth (harmonica, vocals)
University of Michigan School of Music Symphony Orchestra & Musical Society, Leonard Slatkin
This is a magnum opus that occupied Bolcom for 25 years, starting as early as 1956. He's drawn on a wide range of musical styles to parallel Blake's method of moving from sophisticated to almost... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2005, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Classical Album of the Year
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Gershwin, Tower & Stucky: Works for Piano & Orchestra
Kevin Cole (piano), National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, David Alan Miller
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Mamou gives it her best shot but there’s little she can do with it beyond the propriety and grace that informs all her playing. If at the end of the day one yearns for a bit of extra magic,... — More…
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