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Arvo Pärt: Adam’s Lament
RecommendedTui Hirv (soprano) & Rainer Vilu (baritone)
Latvian Radio Choir, Vox Clamantis, Riga Sinfonietta, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tonu Kaljuste
Adam's Lament serves as a summary of Pärt's evolution since he abandoned Modernist tendencies...The Radio Choir and Vox Clamantis affectingly convey anguished hopes for redemption while maintaining... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, Disc of the month
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Grammy Awards, 56th Awards (2013), Best Choral Performance
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Keel Road
RecommendedDanish String Quartet (stringquartet), Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (violin, pumporgan, fiddle, spinet, whistle), Frederik Øland (violin, whistle), Asbjørn Nørgaard (viola, whistle), Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin (cello, bass, whistle), Nikolaj Busk (piano), Ale Carr (cittern), Dreamers' Circus
The heart is perhaps Once a Shoemaker, following on from an old field recording of the song on which it's based; is it here we get the distinctive, introspective sound of the clog fiddle? The... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Chamber
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The Danish are remarkable, as ever – capable of intense blend, extreme dynamic variation (in which they seem glued together), perfect intonation even on harmonics, and constant vitality and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2016, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Chamber
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Kurtág: Complete Works for Ensemble and Choir
RecommendedNetherlands Radio Choir (chorus), Natalia Zagorinskaya (soprano), Gerrie de Vries (mezzo-soprano), Yves Saelens (tenor), Harry van der Kamp (bass), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Elliott Simpson (guitar), Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Csaba Király (pianino, spoken word)
Asko | Schoenberg Ensemble,...
The interpretations are of a consistently elevated standard. Messages of the Late Miss R Troussova, a signature Kurtág score, sets a marker: soprano Natalia Zagorinskaya gives a riveting performance... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2017, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Compendium
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Weinberg: Orchestral & Chamber Works
RecommendedGidon Kremer (violin & director), Daniil Grishin (viola), Giedre Dirvanauskaite (cello), Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Kremerata Baltica
Kremer and his associates deliver incisive, committed performances...a fascinating piece, performed here with great brilliance. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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The NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, led by Tōnu Kaljuste, propel [the First Symphony] onward, drawing a shape from the swirling sonic mass…The Fourth (2008) owes as much to silence as it does to sound... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Contemporary Music
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There are moments when the music seems to call for a grandeur which this instrument can't produce, but with this recording Schubert's pianistic world is fundamentally transformed. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th April 2019
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Record Review, 20th April 2019, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2019, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Recording of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Solo Music
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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This is the gorgeous follow-up album to the 2014 Wood Works disc. The four Scandinavians offer their own stylish arrangements of Nordic folk music – plus a couple of their own tunes. —
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Arvo Pärt - Alina
RecommendedVladimir Spivakov (violin), Sergei Berzodny (piano), Alexander Malter (piano), Dietmar Schwalke (cello)
Vladimir Spivakov, particularly, is breathtaking in his two performances of Spiegel im Spiegel, his control of tone and carefully considered use of vibrato adding greatly to the poignancy of... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th February 2008
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A revelatory connected soundscape in which Beethoven’s introspection feels more unsettling than usual. —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2019, Chamber Choice
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Chamber
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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