Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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RecommendedMusic for Violin & Piano by Bartók, Poulenc & Ravel
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Polina Leschenko (piano)
Playing of such consummate ease combined with involvement and attention to detail...Simply, this is one of the finest, most musically sensitive recordings to have come my way for some time,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th February 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Chamber
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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Recommended& other works for two pianos four hands
Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
The two-piano transcription is arguably as exhilarating as the full orchestration [of The Rite], and Andsnes and Hamelin offer a reading that is in turns thrilling, unsettling and beautiful…... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2018, Record of the Month
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Record Review, 10th February 2018, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Instrumental
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Bernstein: On The Waterfront RecommendedOrchestral Works
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Lindberg
They’re completely on fire, chiselling hot rhythms out of the percussion, melting their lips on ritzy brass cascades. They also obviously relish the tenderness of those rare moments when Bernstein... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Stravinsky: The Firebird & Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d'Or
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Petrenko’s preference for slow tempos over flexible drama might make for fidgety audiences in the concert hall…It just about works on CD, and then all hell’s let loose in perfectly-balanced... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th December 2018
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Debussy: Nocturnes, Jeux, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
RecommendedLes Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Both works are essentially about desire, and their sensuality is heightened here not only by their juxtaposition but by the dark warmth of Les Siècles’ period-instrument sound and the restrained... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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Record Review, 22nd December 2018, Disc of the Week
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Prokofiev for Two
RecommendedAll works transcribed for two pianos by Sergei Babayan.
Martha Argerich (piano) & Sergei Babayan (piano)
Argerich and Babayan excel at the hard-hitting stuff, which also includes the opening and closing of Babayan’s idiosyncratic Romo and Juliet sequence. The percussive chords at the beginning... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Chamber Music Recording (20th/21st-Century Music)
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Nouveauté
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Four Pieces - Four Pianos
RecommendedSchubert, Chopin, Liszt, Stravinsky
Alexander Melnikov (pianos)
They are all works requiring formidable technical ability, and pianist Alexander Melnikov brings clarity of touch and virtuoso flair to them all, transferring as if effortlessly from instrument... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Winner - Instrumental
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Stravinsky: Chant Funèbre & Le Sacre du printemps RecommendedLucerne Festival Orchestra, Sophie Koch (mezzo), Riccardo Chailly
Chailly draws out the colours vividly with his Lucerne orchestra, silky strings and rounded woodwind voices to the fore. The Funeral Song is more than a curiosity…It’s a very good performance... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th January 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Visions of Prokofiev
RecommendedLisa Batiashvili (violin)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Nézet-Séguin cues a fine-spun accompaniment at the start and close of No. 1. Whereas he, the COR and Batiashvili collude for a carping attack at the centre of the Scherzo…She perfectly captures... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Concert Recording (20th/21st-century music)
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis, Nobilissima Visione & Boston Symphony
RecommendedWDR Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski
Janowski lends the music greater energy and urgency [than Abbado]…This very well recorded disc should win Hindemith new friends. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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