Aurora Orchestra
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Hans Zender: Schubert's Winterreise
RecommendedA Composed Interpretation
Allan Clayton (tenor), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Nicholas Collin and the Aurora Orchestra rise to Zender's challenges handsomely...Allan Clayton is one of a handful of tenors with the vocal dexterity to take on Zender's reworking of Schubert's... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th January 2026
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Four Spirits
RecommendedAbel Selaocoe (cello), Bernhard Schimpelsberger (percussion), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Selaocoe is a breathtakingly vibrant artist who has a poignant understanding of the umbilical cord between music, community and spirituality... It's a quasi-scat style that at times recalls... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th August 2025
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Concerto Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Premiere
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Benedetti’s first entry is swift, weightless and agile, landing as it does on the softest of pianissimos, the effect at once both virtuosic and ethereal...because her overall approach is so... —
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Special offer. Anna Meredith: Triptotage Miniatures; Colin Matthews: Postludes; Alexander Goehr: After The Waking
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Daniel, Britten Sinfonia, Nash Ensemble, Martyn Brabbins
Meredith’s style doesn’t fit into a particular category…Aurora Orchestra expertly handles the cross-rhythms and changing time signatures…[Goehr’s] Schoenbergian melodic language is beautifully... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Road Trip: Aurora Orchestra
RecommendedDawn Landes (vocal & guitar), Sam Amidon (vocals & guitar)
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Adams's Chamber Symphony, inspired equally by Schoenberg and cartoon scores, is taken at a cracking pace, even faster than the composer's own...[Appalachian Spring] is given a lovely performance,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Thoughtfully constructed and stylistically wide-ranging, the album opens with Meredith Monk’s miniature, poignant Early Morning Melody, followed by Dappled Light, a sonorous, rippling new work... —
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Four Spirits
RecommendedAbel Selaocoe (cello, voice), Bernhard Schimpelsberger (percussion), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
elaocoe is a breathtakingly vibrant artist who has a poignant understanding of the umbilical cord between music, community and spirituality... It's a quasi-scat style that at times recalls Ella... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th August 2025
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Concerto Choice
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Thoughtfully constructed and stylistically wide-ranging, the album opens with Meredith Monk’s miniature, poignant Early Morning Melody, followed by Dappled Light, a sonorous, rippling new work... —
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Music of the Spheres
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Sam Swallow (vocalist), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Adès's appropriately stratospheric writing is despatched with fearless aplomb by Pekka Kuusisto. The main attractions, though, are an electric Jupiter Symphony (played from memory, and it shows... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Special offer. Augusta Read Thomas: Of Being is a Bird
Nathan Giem (violin), Claire Booth (soprano), Nathan Cole (violin), Nicola Melville (piano)
Parker Quartet, Third Coast Percussion & Spektral Quartet, Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Irresistible forward drive, pausing only for moments of radiant beauty. —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, Chamber Choice
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