Philadelphia Orchestra
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The Philadelphia polish helps to highlight one of Price’s most endearing qualities: those kaleidoscopic orchestrations, with piquant detailing from all corners, including celesta and slide whistle...... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Winner - Best Orchestral Performance
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Record Review, Records of the Year 2021
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Max Bruch & Florence Price: Violin Concertos
RecommendedRandall Goosby (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
There’s much to admire in Randall Goosby’s debut concerto recording. This star pupil of Itzhak Perlman possesses a beautifully warm and tender sound, as well as delivering technically immaculate... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, Editor's Choice
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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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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2023
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My American Story – North
RecommendedDaniil Trifonov (piano), The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
a heartfelt and considered album, delivered with a refreshing smile – and first-rate musicianship. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th October 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Marsalis: Violin Concerto & Fiddle Dance Suite
RecommendedNicola Benedetti (violin)
Philadelphia Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru
Each of the Concerto’s four movements is a tangy gumbo of diverse idioms that have in common human expression…It’s hugely to Benedetti’s credit, colourfully supported by the Philadelphia orchestra... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Winner - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019)
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Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos
Haochen Zhang (piano), The Philadelphia Orchestra, Nathalie Stutzmann
Zhang offers some breathtakingly beautiful moments...The Philadelphia Orchestra, here conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann, is one of those rare musical juggernauts that has its musical juggernauts... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023, Editor's Choice
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The Philadelphia Orchestra play this music with sensitivity and sumptuousness under Yannick Nézet-Séguin...this shoots straight to the top of my list of this year's best albums. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2025, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Orchestral Performance
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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The Times, Best Classical Albums of 2025
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Secret Love Letters
Franck - Szymanowski - Chausson - Debussy
Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Giorgi Gigashvili (piano),Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
The Poème is the most successful, benefitting from the violinist’s sweet tone and understanding of the work’s structure. —
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Record Review, 20th August 2022, Record of the Week
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Rachmaninoff: Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 & Isle of the Dead
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
The sound of the orchestra in the Second Symphony is suitably dark in the introduction, and string-heavy and dark in the body of the movement. There is a nice amount of rubato and schmaltz.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 & Symphonic Dances
RecommendedThe Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
You need not only a sensitivity to the special string warmth but also an ideal flexibility for the tempo rubato implied when not explicitly requested...Nézet-Séguin does, in spades...Nor is... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Letters for the Future
RecommendedRanaan Meyer (cadenzor), Nicolas Kendall (cadenzor), Charles Yang (cadenzor), Time For Three, Philadelphia Orchestra, Xian Zhang
Puts evokes different types of communication throughout the piece, hinting at loneliness, otherworldly connections, fear and joy, honouring the pandemic period in which it was created...Like... —
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Winner - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Winner - Best Contemporary Classical Composition (for Kevin Puts - Contact)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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