Presto Recordings of the Year, Contemporary (era)
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The persistent ‘Baroque specialist’ label hardly sums up this distinguished French soprano. With her distinctively radiant, secure tone and cut-crystal upper range, her repertoire has always... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Mélodie
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Nouveauté
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For all its beauty, the album also feels like a call to action. The horrors of racial violence cannot be separated from this repertoire, and a sense of urgent injustice is brought home by these... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, Debut Solo Album
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Classic Without Limits
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an outstanding album: expertly programmed and performed with terrific verve. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Vocal
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The playing here, disarmingly gentle yet tonally seductive, has a songful use of vibrato that recalls the expressive manners of Pierre Fournier and du Pré herself…A most rewarding CD then, sure... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Newcomer (cello)
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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This is a highly considered collection of performances, with close attention paid to phrasing, articulation and voicing. Lapwood has successfully delivered an album that cements her status as... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrumental Recording of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Young Talent of the Year
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The sequence works well as a recital-like experience, and also as a vehicle for Hough’s comprehensive mastery of his art...The idiom of his own ‘Vida breve’ Sonata, with its cogent sweep and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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These formidable chamber musicians range effortlessly through the centuries and around the globe, recognising no stylistic boundaries. Their mesmerising soundworld is supported by a glowing,... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, Editor's Choice
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A charm of lullabies, or an excess? If anyone could convince you that mostly slow and soft can work as an album sequence, it would be sonic magician Bertrand Chamayou...Within the narrow compass... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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This debut solo album brilliantly played by the rising young organist Anna Lapwood should certainly engage organ aficionados, especially fans of the grand Harrison & Harrison instrument in Ely... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Spatial Audio
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The Contrast RecommendedEnglish Poetry in Song
Carolyn Sampson (piano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Huw Watkins’s Larkin settings are the main reason to invest in this recital — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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