BBC Music Magazine Awards, Romantic (era)
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Vaughan Williams, Howells, Delius & Elgar - Music for Strings RecommendedSinfonia of London, John Wilson
The sound, engineered by Ralph Couzens, is magnificent...While fully relishing the at times dreamy polyphony of Vaughan Williams’s textures, Wilson’s Fantasia has sharp, impassioned edges too,... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Recording of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Orchestral
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd February 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, Orchestral Choice
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Abbado in Lucerne radiates clarity, wisdom and vision, qualities that over the years one had come to expect of him. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Orchestral Award Winner
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Orchestral Finalist
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2014
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Symphonic Music
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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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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Chamber
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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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Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 5
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Alive and articulate, these three performances remind us that it’s just as possible to be stunned by an original interpretation of a familiar symphony (the Fifth) as it is to be refreshed by... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Recording of the Year/Orchestral Winner
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th June 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Most Finnish greats have recorded cycles of Sibelius symphonies at least once...Who’d have predicted that this latest, from Klaus Mäkelä at the helm of the Oslo Philharmonic would be the most... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Dynamic and dramatic readings, faithful to Brahms's intentions. Powerfully conceived, they are rhythmically alert, without an ounce of undue sentiment and never for an instant losing sight of... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Recording of the Year
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Building a Library, April 2018, Also recommended
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Disc of the Month
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It is rare to be able to say that a performance forces one to listen to a work anew, but this is exactly what Alsop's reading achieves. Excellently recorded and with an elegant and witty performance... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2023, Also Recommended - Symphony No. 9
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Orchestral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, Disc of the month
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique'
RecommendedMusicaeterna, Teodor Currentzis
Currentzis has a clear and unified vision of the music’s trajectory, his interpretation grabbing you by the scruff of the neck…Most remarkable of all is the clarity of sound achieved here which... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017, Nouveauté
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th October 2017
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2018, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, Recording of the month
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Orchestral
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Chineke! here presents one of the biggest and best collections of his music yet released. At its heart is the heavenly Violin Concerto; Elena Urioste and the orchestra under Kevin John Edusei... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd December 2022
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Rattle assuredly paces the music's long paragraphs and musters a sense of the monumental...[His] interpretation...encompasses the full gamut of emotions from tenderness and nostalgia to some... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Orchestral Award Winner
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th May 2012
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Editor's Choice
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