Gramophone Awards, 2007
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A completely new and inspiring benchmark for this unique tour de force —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Instrumental Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2007, Disc of the month
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Record Review, December 2007, Listeners' Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2007, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Instrumental
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedLisa Milne (soprano) & Birgit Remmert (alto)
Budapest Festival Orchestra & The Hungarian Radio Choir, Iván Fischer
…Fischer… rarely pushes too hard. The orchestral sound is lean but not undernourished, allowing for even balance between contesting lines - outstanding in the funereal coda of the first movement... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Editor's Choice
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Moeran: Sinfonietta, Symphony in G minor & Overture for a Masque
RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
Boult's affection for the G minor Symphony is in every phrase of this rapt and gloriously warm-hearted performance.
The New Philharmonia are on blistering form and, thankfully for us, captured... —Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Historic Reissue
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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
RecommendedDorothea Röschmann (soprano) & Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Berliner Philharmoniker & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Rattle
…this is a very impressive account of Brahms's German Requiem, deeply considered and most beautifully played and sung. The full, warm sound he draws from the Berlin Philharmonic has a sombre... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Choral
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Choral Performance
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…what is immediately striking about the present performance is its boldness and originality in terms of tempo contrasts, rhythmic emphasis and textural variety. Not only the playing beyond... —
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Building a Library, September 2012, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Best Newcomer
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A completely new and inspiring benchmark for this unique tour de force. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Instrumental Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2007, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Record Review, December 2007, Listeners' Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2007, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Instrumental
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Special offer. Julian Anderson: Alhambra Fantasy
RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen
Anderson's confidence in handling and shaping his musical material and his wonderfully precise ear for instrumental colour have been constants in his music… Oliver Knussen's beautifully integrated... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th October 2008
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2006, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Contemporary
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I can’t think of anything that would improve this package: performances are stylish and beautifully polished. The recording is a beauty —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2007, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Building a Library, October 2017, First Choice
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This is the tenth disc in the ensemble’s complete recordings of Byrd, but the first in the series with Hyperion … [the] engineering gains and the artists’ freshness and conviction make this... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Early Music
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This is passionate singing, sexy even – not for nothing has the German been described as resembling a flamenco artist. The best-known songs here are delivered with electrifying ease, and there... —
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Building a Library, December 2012, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Solo Vocal
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