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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedLucy Crowe (soprano), Alex Potter (countertenor), Michael Spyres (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), The English Concert & Choir, John Nelson
The theatrical instincts that have served Nelson so well in Berlioz ensure some detailed characterisation such as the semiquaver flurry of beating wings as the angels prepare to impart their... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd December 2023
2 CDs + DVD Video
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Suzi Digby’s ORA Singers performance [of Spem], at a touch over nine minutes, is one of the f leetest on record, and boasts an expert choir whose tuning is immaculate and who munch the technical... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st August 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245 Recommendedcontains 2 DVDs and Blu-ray disc
Mark Padmore (Evangelist), Camilla Tilling (soprano), Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor), Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Roderick Williams (Jesus)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle, Peter Sellars (director)
Sellars is an intrinsically 'musical' director...Williams's Christ all but steals the show - even alongside tenor Mark Padmore whose Evangelist fearlessly interrogates as well as interprets... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Life with Czech Music - Janacek & Martinu
RecommendedElisabeth Söderström (soprano), Drahomira Drobkova (contralto), Frantisek Livora (tenor), Richard Novak (bass), Jan Hora (organ), Kvetoslava Nemeckova (soprano), Leo Marian Vodicka (tenor), Vaclav Zitek (baritone), Josef Ruzicka (piano), Jan Bouse (timpani), Eva Urbanova (soprano), Bernarda Fink...
Even the recording acoustic is warm, enough sometimes to curl the music’s edges and smudge away little details. But Mackerras’s handling of this repertoire is so fresh, so responsive to the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Choral
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Sacred Music: A Christmas History & A Choral Christmas RecommendedPresented by Simon Russell Beale
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Together [Beale and Christophers] form a fascinating insight into the way Christmas music has developed over the millennia from a fragment of papyrus preserving the earliest known piece of Christian... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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Verdi: Requiem
Ilva Ligabue (soprano), Grace Bumbry (mezzo-soprano), Sandor Konya (tenor) & Raffaele Arié (bass)
Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Carlo Maria Giulini
Yes, it’s just a mono sound recording, it’s shot in black and white and the Royal Festival Hall acoustic is not the best. Nevertheless the fifty-year old Giulini draws out a powerfully thrilling... — More…
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25 Years German Reunification
Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger (soprano), Doris Soffel (mezzo-soprano), James Wagner (tenor) & Gwynne Howell (bass)
Gewandhaus Choir and Orchestra
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Janowski works thoughtfully with Dejours on translating musical ideas into sound through unselfconscious gestures. — More…
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Celebrating Verdi
Verdi’s Legendary Interpreters
Tito Gobbi (baritone)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, Carlo Maria Giulini, Sir Charles Mackerras
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Orff: Carmina Burana
Lucia Popp (soprano), John van Kesteren (tenor), Hermann Prey (baritone)
Munich Radio Orchestra & Bavarian Radio Choir, Kurt Eichhorn
an imaginative staging... The main background set is a ruined church, against which the singers are seen in medieval costume, with action, sometimes surreal, invented to illustrate each section... — More…
