Bonds
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In short, this highly recommendable collection represents a model of imaginative and provocative programming. —
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The Philadelphia Orchestra play this music with sensitivity and sumptuousness under Yannick Nézet-Séguin...this shoots straight to the top of my list of this year's best albums. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2025, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Orchestral Performance
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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The Times, Best Classical Albums of 2025
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Once more under the baton of Kellen Gray, the RSNO brings terrific warmth and verve to three appealing orchestral works that span the Harlem and Chicago Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s and... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2023
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Kanneh-Mason never takes a musical idea and beats you around the head with it: if anything, it feels improvised and throwaway. It’s refreshing to have a young musician not deliver something... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Newcomer
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Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers
RecommendedWill Liverman (baritone), Paul Sánchez (piano)
A true passion project, 'Dreams of a New Day' gives voice to the remarkable creative contributions of African-American composers from the twentieth century to the present day…Performed with... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Special offer. Margaret Bonds: Credo, Simon Bore the Cross
RecommendedJaninah Burnett (soprano), Dashon Burton (baritone), The Dessoff Choirs, Malcolm J. Merriweather
Beautifully performed here, these two late choral works encapsulate both the warmth of Bonds’ musical language and her passionate advocacy for racial justice. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Rising is a joyful celebration of the extraordinary contribution of African-American composers and poets, and is both slickly produced and beautifully performed. —
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th December 2023
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Show Me The Way
RecommendedWill Liverman, Jonathan King, Nicole Cabell (soprano), Lady Jess, Tahirah Whittington, Terry Liverman
Liverman’s voice is dazzling and King handles the often-dense accompaniments with architectural awareness, in a well-balanced recording. —
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Choral Performance
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Special offer. Margaret Bonds: The Ballad Of The Brown King & Selected Songs
Laquita Mitchell (soprano), Lucia Bradford (mezzo-soprano), Noah Stewart (tenor), Malcolm J. Merriweather (baritone/conductor), Ashley Jackson (harp)
The Dessoff Choirs & Orchestra
Although it dates from 1954, this is the piece’s premiere recording. It is a very good one…The choral contributions draw palpably on the style of spirituals, without seeming derivative, and... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2019
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