Swedish Chamber Orchestra
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Henselt & Bronsart: Piano Concertos
RecommendedPaul Wee (piano), Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Michael Collins
Wee’s fingers dance with clarity and delight around the keyboard...he and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Michael Collins, have an excellent rapport. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Concertos
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Concerto
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New. Anders Hillborg: Vaporised Tivoli
Orchestral and Concertante Works Vol. 1
Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Nicolas Alstaedt (cello), Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Christian Karlsen
It helps that all the artists on this excellently recorded album are specialists in contemporary music. Pianist Tamara Stefanovich is especially under the skin of the Piano Concerto No. 1. —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2026, Concerto Choice
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His virtuosity is remarkable, not only in terms of surmounting the technical challenges that Mozart threw at his favourite horn player, Joseph Leutgeb, but also for the expressive and dynamic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025
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Spohr - Clarinet Concertos Nos. 3 & 4
RecommendedMichael Collins (clarinet)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Robin O’Neill
Michael Collins repeats the success of his disc of Nos 1 and 2 with elegantly phrased melodies, immaculate passagework and wondrously even trills. The Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Robin O'Neill... —
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Building a Library, November 2009, Highly Recommended
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Brett Dean - Rooms of Elsinore
RecommendedJennifer France; Lotte Betts-Dean; Juho Pohjonen; James Crabb; Volker Hemken; Swedish Chamber Orchestra; Brett Dean
This compelling album presents five works prompted by writing an opera on Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy. Each stands on its own, yet they obliquely inhabit its world….Adroitly partnered by pianist... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Spohr - Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Robin O'Neill
…the first two of his four concertos for the clarinettist Johann Simon Hermstedt… well worth hearing: they’re imaginatively constructed and full of graceful melody, as well as being true virtuoso... —
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Michael Collins thrills and charms in these characterful concertos, which deserve to be as well known as those by Mozart and Weber. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Concerto
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique’, Op. 74
RecommendedSwedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard
The virtues are self-evident: Dausgaard elicits some impressively accomplished and consistently bright-eyed playing, textures are sifted with watchful care...and his readings are abundantly... —
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Building a Library, June 2016, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Wallis Giunta (mezzo-soprano), Jennifer France (soprano), Katarina Andreasson (violin), Benjamin Herzl, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Hk Gruber
[Giunta] does amazingly well to make the translation (WH Auden and Chester Kallman) both audible and engaging. —
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Maxim Rysanov plays Schubert, Tchaikovsky & Bruch
RecommendedMaxim Rysanov (viola)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Muhai Tang
Rysanov makes the best possible case for hearing this version [of the Arpeggione], delivering a wonderfully poetic account of the solo part with subtle and sensitive accompaniment from the Swedish... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th August 2011
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