Ondine
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These utterly fearless unaccompanied singers bring precision to the most complex textures while retaining a palpable grasp of the music’s emotional heart, imbuing it with an engaging sense of... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2024, Recording of the Month
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Rautavaara: Modificata, Towards the Horizon & Incantations RecommendedWorld Première Recordings
Truls Mørk (cello), Colin Currie (percussion)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
A late and lush harvest of works by octogenarian Einojuhani Rautavaara continues apace. Here we have eagerly awaited documentation of his two latest neo-Romantic concertos, in beautifully recorded... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2012, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Contemporary
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The Bells of Dawn Russian Sacred and Folk Songs
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
The Grand Choir ‘Masters of Choral Singing’, Lev Kontorovich
The singing here...is more sophisticated than you might expect to hear in your average Russian church on a Sunday morning but Hvorostovsky does not over-egg it. In the characteristically lush... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, Editor's Choice
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Lutosławski: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4; Jeux vénitiens Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Three key works, each from an essential point in Witold Lutosławski’s career, add up to a thrilling portrait of the modern Polish master. All are played with searing energy by the Finnish Radio... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Orchestral
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Rautavaara: Angels and Visitations RecommendedElmar Oliveira (violin)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
Rautavaara's wholly original Violin Concerto is hauntingly accessible and grips the listener completely...Segerstam provides a shimmering backing and directs a committed and persuasively spontaneous... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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often bar-by-bar alternation between joy and sadness, beauty and regret, in mature Mozart is something to which Christam Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt are continuously alive...Tetzlaff finding a different... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, Editor's Choice
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A frame of applause and ecstatic ovations greet what is one of Karita Mattila's most exciting discs yet… The repertoire takes Mattila's voice into thrilling new regions; and Martin Katz's piano... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2007, Editor's Choice
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Sibelius: Lemminkainen Legends & Tapiola RecommendedHelsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
The four Legends first began to surface in Sibelius's mind in 1893, at the same time as he was working on his Kalevala opera, The Building ofthe Boat, the prelude to which became The swanof... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2017, First Choice
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Building a Library, May 2019, Also Recommended
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Čiurlionis: The Sea; In the Forest; Kestutis Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Modestas Pitrėnas
The Lithuanian composer's atmospheric depictions of landscape here rival those of Sibelius and Mahler for imaginative orchestration; there are whispers of the latter’s First Symphony and Wagner’s... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2020
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Julian Anderson: Alhambra Fantasy RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen
Anderson's confidence in handling and shaping his musical material and his wonderfully precise ear for instrumental colour have been constants in his music… Oliver Knussen's beautifully integrated... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th October 2008
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2006, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Contemporary
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