Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Rachmaninov: The Bells & Symphonic Dances
RecommendedSymphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
This superlative performance…is one of those stratospherically accomplished, ‘cosmic’ ones that Jansons says he is always trying to attain… Jansons has Rachmaninov in his very soul; but he is... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 3rd February 2018, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Choral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Choral Performance
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Diapason d’Or, April 2018, Nouveauté
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Bach: Magnificats RecommendedJoélle Harvey (soprano), Olivia Vermeulen (mezzo), Thomas Walker (tenor), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Thomas Bauer (baritone)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
You would be hard-pressed to find a more illuminating disc than this latest offering from Arcangelo…There’s nothing overfamiliar about the captivating freshness and buoyancy that both chorus... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, Choral &Song Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Choral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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There’s no doubting that [Shibe] is an artist blessed with grace to spare, and a roar that is fearsome – witness the opening section of Julia Wolfe’s LAD which screams into anguished life before... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Concept Album
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Alfred Schnittke & Arvo Pärt: Choral Works RecommendedRaul Mikson (tenor), Maria Melaha (soprano), Karolina Kriis (soprano), Marianne Pärna (alto), Ave Hännikäinen (alto), Toomas Tohert (tenor), Kaia Urb (soprano)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
The performance by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Kaspars Putiniņš is really impressive with a particularly rich and sonorous bass sound that is absolutely tailor- made for this... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Choral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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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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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123 RecommendedAnn-Helen Moen (soprano), Roxana Constantinescu (mezzo-soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor) & Benjamin Bevan (baritone)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
The orchestra and chorus are comparatively small under Suzuki, the tempos slightly on the fast side, the soloists able to cope with the appalling difficulties of their music, but not outstandingly... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th March 2018
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Record Review, 31st March 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Langgaard: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6 RecommendedAnu Komsi (soprano), Vienna Philharmonic, Sakari Oramo
Oramo and the Vienna Philharmonic [take] on two contrasted works by Rued Langgaard that illuminate this composer in all his stylistic diversity and recklessness...Such an idiom should be in... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Orchestral
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Bernstein: The 3 Symphonies - Casebound Deluxe
RecommendedOrchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano
Rana glitters away at the piano as the observer of inner turmoil in Anxiety; Josephine Barstow makes an excellent first of Bernstein’s often embarrassing Kaddish narration…but the lynchpin remains... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th August 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Symphonic Music
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Handel: Italian cantatas
RecommendedSabine Devieilhe (soprano), Léa Desandre (mezzo)
Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord, organ and conductor)
This production is a delight throughout…Haïm retains control by preparing both the scores and the sopranos’ ornaments, her vision giving this carefully wrought performance a fiery intensity,... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Vocal
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[Bělohlávek] could get under the skin of Janacek’s music, drawing out its folk roots and speech rhythms, its soul-searching and truthfulness, its sheer humanity. The main work here is the Glagolitic... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st August 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Building a Library, June 2019, Also Recommended
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