Concertos, Cello Concertos
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Elgar: Viola Concerto & Bloch: Suite For Viola and Orchestra
RecommendedTimothy Ridout (viola), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Ridout’s account of the opening movement is full of richly rhapsodic playing , although the viola suggests more of a wistful musing than the deeper, elegiac contemplation possible on the cello. — More…
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Limelight Magazine, February 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th January 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Winner - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Elgar & Walton: Cello Concertos
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
This mesmerising meditation couldn't be in better hands — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th February 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Haydn & CPE Bach: Cello Concertos
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello/director)
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
His interpretations, graceful and finely-etched before, now have a more rugged depth, and the new variants on his own cadenzas speak of experience…His own arrangement of Mozart’s heavenly ‘Geme... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Instrumental Solo
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Concerto
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Finzi: Cello Concerto, Op. 40
RecommendedPaul Watkins (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Sir Andrew Davis’s feeling for the composer’s sensitive, harmonically conservative language is abundantly clear in these vivid readings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Soloists too are well... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st December 2018
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Walton: Symphony No. 2 & Cello Concerto
RecommendedPaul Watkins (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
If a new Walton release can finally put paid to the notion that his music somehow 'went off' after his move to the Italian island of Ischia in 1956, then this must be it. And the performances... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2015, First Choice
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Dvorak & Tchaikovsky: Works for Cello & Orchestra
RecommendedMstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
There have been a number of outstanding recordings of the Dvorák Concerto since this DG record was made, but none to match it for the warmth of lyrical feeling, the sheer strength of personality... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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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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Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra
RecommendedPaul Watkins (cello), Robert Murray (tenor)
BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner
Three elements stand out: firstly, the dramatic intensity of purpose he finds in all pieces; secondly, the sizzling soloistic detail he draws from the BBC Philharmonic and, thirdly, the depth... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, Disc of the month
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Building A Library, June 2022, Recommended Recording
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A Golden Cello Decade, 1878-1888
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello), Connie Shih (piano), Olivia Jageurs (harp)
No cellist alive can match the eloquent intent of Steven Isserlis’s line. Every phrase he threads through the warm embrace of Connie Shih’s pianism is articulated and ‘breathed’ with the ardour... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th November 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2022, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Dobrinka Tabakova: Orpheus' Comet, Earth Suite & Concertos Maxim Rysanov (viola), Guy Johnston (cello), Hallé Orchestra, Delyana Lazarova
Complex but richly communicative, her compositions demonstrate this blend [of mind and heart' to a tee...Beautifully performed and recorded, this is a first-rate release, offering a timely showcase... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Concerto
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