Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Esfahani's at his most expressive in the slow movements...This, his first solo disc, provides a particularly welcome introduction onto the world stage for an artist matching, in expression CPE... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Newcomer Award
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Schumann: Kinderszenen & Waldszenen & Janáček: On the overgrown path I
RecommendedMarc-André Hamelin (piano)
Hamelin has already made several fine recordings of Schumann's piano music, focusing on big virtuoso pieces. He proves to be equally adept at exploring the more intimate side of the composer's... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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What comes across most winningly is the ebb and flow of the work: the more inward passages are allowed to breathe; the extrovert ones are absolutely fiery. It's not a work that could ever be... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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The sound of Jakob Lindberg's lute, made by Sixtus Rauwolf in the last decade of the 16th century, is unusually warm...It a meticulously voiced recital that moves between court, theatre and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, Instrumental Choice
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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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Alison Balsom: Paris
RecommendedAlison Balsom (trumpet), with Miloš Karadaglić (guitar)
The Guy Barker Orchestra, Guy Barker
This potpourri of a recital is...very much of its own time, eclectically flavoured in its collaborative elements and juxtaposition of music languages [sic], and deftly underpinned by Balsom's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th September 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Miloš: Aranjuez
RecommendedMiloš Karadaglić (guitar)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Miloš Karadaglić has a feather-light touch, honeyed tone and warm bass. Musical details are well thought through, and - like a good pianist pedalling - he knows when, and how long, to let notes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th February 2014
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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This is Bach at his most commanding...as fine a set of Bach's complete partitas as you will find in the catalogue, but it lacks the individuality which I had hoped for — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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It makes for a varied and rewarding programme enriched by Williams's velvet touch, meticulous voicing, attention to detail and judiciously graded dynamics. For me, he is at his best in the music... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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[Scheherazade] is a work that well demonstrates the orchestra's virtues, which include not only a fine set of principals who have their individual voices in the brighly hued scoring but an overall... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th August 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Berlin Comedian Harmonists - 'Die Liebe kommt, die Liebe geht'
RecommendedBerlin Comedian Harmonists
The new group have the idiom off to a T, with crystal-clear diction, just the right balance of wit and sentiment and, most of all, the ability to move in and out of the group texture absolutely... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th April 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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