Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016 (page 1 of 10)

Transcendental: Daniil Trifonov plays Franz Liszt

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Daniil Trifonov (piano)

Trifonov’s approach is to search out through rounded and constantly beautiful piano tone the music’s pre-Debussyian side – a legitimate take on Liszt’s radical streak, keeping any risk of meretricious... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
- Release Date: 7th Oct 2016
- Catalogue No: 94795529
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon
- Length: 1 hour 57 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Recording of the Week, 7th October 2016
- Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Disc of the Month
- Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Instrumental
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
- ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
- Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2017, Winner - Jahrespreis
- Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Tchaikovsky & Sibelius Violin Concertos

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Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim

Batiashvili focuses on poetic intimacy in this deeply thoughtful performance. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017More…
- Release Date: 4th Nov 2016
- Catalogue No: 4796038
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon
- Length: 70 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Recording of the Week, 18th November 2016
- BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Concerto Choice
- Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Disc of the Month
- Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Concerto
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
- Record Review, 28th January 2017, Recording of the Week
- Building a Library, November 2023, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Copland: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 - Ballets

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BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson

John Wilson shows an instinctive flair for Copland's syncopated and changing rhythms, and brings out all the music's broad humour and intimate poetry — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016More…
- Release Date: 29th Jan 2016
- Catalogue No: CHSA5164
- Label: Chandos
- Series: Copland Orchestral Works
- Length: 79 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Recording of the Week, 29th January 2016
- BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, Orchestral Choice
- Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Editor's Choice
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Abrahamsen: Let me tell you

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Barbara Hannigan (soprano)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Andris Nelsons

Abrahamsen expresses both the fragility and force of Griffiths's imagined Ophelia through glinting, gauze-like textures and moments of clattering tumult…Barbara Hannigan's agile, luminous voice... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2016, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
- Release Date: 8th Jan 2016
- Catalogue No: 9102322
- Label: Winter & Winter
- Length: 32 minutes
Awards:
- Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Editor's Choice
- Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2016, Winner - Musique Contemporaine
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
- Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Contemporary
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Serpent & Fire

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Anna Prohaska (soprano)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini

a maddening, fascinating and often bewitching disc — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
- Release Date: 23rd Sep 2016
- Catalogue No: ALPHA250
- Label: Alpha
- Length: 69 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
- Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Recital
- International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Mozart: Violin Sonatas Volume 1

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Alina Ibragimova (violin) & Cédric Tiberghien (piano)

It is difficult to imagine [these sonatas] better played — BBC Music Magazine, June 2016, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
- Release Date: 29th Apr 2016
- Catalogue No: CDA68091
- Label: Hyperion
- Series: Ibragimova & Tiberghien Mozart Violin Sonatas
- Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Recording of the Week, 29th April 2016
- Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
- Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2017, Winner - Jahrespreis
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CPE Bach: Cello Concertos

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Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen

This recording captures all the fiery wit of orchestral-soloist banter. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016More…
- Release Date: 2nd Sep 2016
- Catalogue No: CDA68112
- Label: Hyperion
- Length: 64 minutes
Awards:
- BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, Disc of the month
- BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Concerto Winner
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
- Building A Library, May 2021, Recommended Recording - A Major Concerto
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Bacewicz: String Quartets

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Silesian Quartet

The Silesian lend vibrant warmth to [the First Quartet]…[and] handle [the later quartets] with precision and élan: a tremendous achievement — BBC Music Magazine, September 2016, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
- Release Date: 1st Jul 2016
- Catalogue No: CHAN10904(2)
- Label: Chandos
- Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Awards:
- Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Disc of the Month
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
- Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Chamber
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123

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Laura Aikin (soprano), Bernarda Fink (alto), Johannes Chum (tenor) & Ruben Drole (bass)
Concentus Musicus Wien & Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

He has achieved something remarkable, a performance that is heaven-storming despite the small forces employed. The key is that every singer in the chorus and solo quartet has been encouraged... — Fanfare, July/August 2021More…
- Release Date: 3rd Jun 2016
- Catalogue No: 88985313592
- Label: Sony
- Length: 81 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd June 2016
- Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
- Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Choral
- Building A Library, July 2022, Also Recommended
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Dvorak & Schumann: Piano Concertos

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Stephen Hough (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons

Hough joins forces with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons for a robust, grand reading that nonetheless leaves room for lyricism and introspection…[but it's in the... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2016, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
- Release Date: 1st Apr 2016
- Catalogue No: CDA68099
- Label: Hyperion
- Length: 73 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Recording of the Week, 1st April 2016
- Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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