Mompou
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RecommendedFederico Mompou, Maurice Ravel, Manuel de Falla, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc
Sean Shibe (guitar)
Vivid, beguiling and intensely intimate, [Mompou's] Suite compostelana offers both blueprint and guide for the musical-emotional pilgrimage signalled by the album title...In Shibe’s hands it... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th August 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Hough is the ideal guide. He wholly inhabits the music’s mystical atmosphere, its holy simplicity. Exquisite sensitivity is matched by a steely strength. Sounds coalesce and insist on their... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Childhood memories are summoned, plus people and places…Indeed, there’s so much playfulness and charm here that the listener might well pant for some extra ballast from meatier things. It comes... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
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Iberia y Francia
Imogen Cooper plays Mompou, Debussy, Albeniz, Ravel and Falla
Imogen Cooper (piano)
It is difficult to imagine Debussy-playing more personal, suggestive or voluptuous. Cooper has lived with this music long and well…She gives us an Albéniz entirely her own, all the more vivid... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Solo Music
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Disc of the month
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Chopin Evocations
RecommendedDaniil Trifonov (piano), with Sergei Babayan (piano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev
In this work, Trifonov staves off potential sentimentality and produces – as usual – an exquisite tone…Some listeners will undoubtedly miss the epic nature of the original orchestration, but... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th October 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - instrumental (piano)
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this CD is the purest pianism, with a drifting, freely associative, visionary momentum —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2013, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Instrumental Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Instrumental
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Special offer. Séguedilles
RecommendedMarianne Crebassa (mezzo), Orchestre et Choeur du National du Capitole de Toulouse, Ben Glassberg; Thibaut Garcia (guitar), Alphonse Cemin (piano)
Crebassa is in tremendous voice throughout, her lower registers dark and burnished, her top notes warm, clear and effortless...Outstanding, every single second of it. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
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The music of Federico Mompou may appear at first to consist of little more than charming, delicately scented but dilettantish salon near-improvisations with marked overtones of Erik Satie; but... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Instrumental
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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