Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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The orchestra's sound under Vänskä has a kind of sharp-focus richness that's never cloying. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th July 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2016, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Building a Library, May 2023, Recommended Recording
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Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9
RecommendedBoston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons is spry and precisioned and his insistence on super-keen rhythm pays off big-time...The Fifth Symphony is quite marvellous...and like the Tenth should dominate the catalogue for a long... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th May 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Orchestral Performance
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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 Recording of the Week, 10th June 2016
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Recording of the Year/Orchestral Winner
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony & Symphony No. 8
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
This is expressive and atmospheric playing, rarely heard since Boult. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th April 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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John Wilson shows an instinctive flair for Copland's syncopated and changing rhythms, and brings out all the music's broad humour and intimate poetry — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th January 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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This disc reveals much of interest to explore beyond the familiar items. Feérique sparkles, and the symphonic suite Paris finds Ibert at his most inventive, mixing jazzy playfulness with suave... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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In War & Peace
RecommendedHarmony Through Music
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo)
Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Though the top of her voice is wiry under pressure, her coloratura is tightly sprung, her diction is flawless, and her phrasing of the often underrated poetry is sympathetic and sophisticated…Il... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Recital
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Opera, January 2017, Recording of the Month
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 RecommendedAnnette Dasch (soprano), Eva Vogel (mezzo), Christian Elsner (tenor), Dimitry Ivashchenko (bass)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle
These performances are intensely alive and immensely invigorating. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th May 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, Disc of the month
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2016, Winner - Musique Symphonique
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Haydn 2032 Volume 3: Solo e pensoso RecommendedFrancesca Aspromonte (soprano)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
As in the previous volumes, the orchestral playing is breathtaking in its accuracy - the sort of Haydn playing you dream of…this may well become the period-instrument Haydn cycle by which all... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Bychkov’s Russian roots make him mindful of Tchaikovsky’s classicism, the emotion always ‘contained’ until it can be contained no more. The explosive development section is a controlled panic... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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