Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners
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Special offer. Mozart: String Quintets K515 & K516
RecommendedQuatuor Ebène, Antoine Tamestit (viola)
The performances on this new release are as accomplished as we would expect from players of this calibre. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Building A Library, January 2024, Recommended Recording (String Quintet No. 3)
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Chamber
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Charlston's mezzo is as dark and full-bodied as a good claret, and she offers highly expressive readings of the texts, plumbing their depths with cut-glass diction and a glorious range of colours... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Concept Album of the Year
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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. —
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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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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Concerto
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Best of all are the Masques, recorded in Copenhagen in 1994…Indeed, the middle-period Masques also leap out with more imagination than anything else here, the pianist’s command of colour magnificent... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th September 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Piano
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Rivales
RecommendedSandrine Piau (soprano), Véronique Gens (soprano), Le Concert de la Loge, Julien Chauvin
I don’t know about any rivalry here, but Gens and Piau, both of whom have complete mastery over this repertoire, function extremely well individually (as one might expect) and in duo. They are... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2022
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Opera, June 2022, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Voice & Ensemble
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He is a stylish, cultured performer and is as fine an advocate for Fauré’s mélodies as any of the best. Recommended for those who love indulging in French song at its finest. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2022, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Song
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Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage
RecommendedRobert Murray (Mark), Rachel Nicholls (Jenifer), Ashley Riches (King Fisher), Jennifer France (Bella), Toby Spence (Jack), Claire Barnett-Jones (Sosostris), Susan Bickley (She-Ancient), Joshua Bloom (He-Ancient), London Philharmonic Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Unexpectedly, it’s the second pair of lovers, Bella and Jack, admirably sung by Jennifer France and Toby Spence, who capture your ear...It’s the villain who almost steals the show. Ashley Riches... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Opera
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[ Symphony No. 5] The richness of the first movement is brought out with exceptional vividness, and Luisi’s sure rhythmic pulse keeps the music animated without let-up. As in the Fourth Symphony,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Recording of the Year and Orchestral Winner
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The Huelgas Ensemble use two or more voices per part in accordance with the size of Daser’s own court chapel choir and this larger ensemble creates a rich, wellbalanced sound which at times... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Early Music
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Special offer. Lotta Wennäkoski: Sigla; Flounce; Sedecim
Sivan Magan (harp), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Together [the movements of Sedecim] form a substantial triptych, the orchestra explored with tremendous verve in a modernist idiom distinguished by its invigorating lightness of touch. The 2022... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Contemporary
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