Shaw, C
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This is an album that proclaims the viola as a distinctive, individual solo instrument, ideally served here by its skilled interpreter...this [Bach] Chaconne seems to sum up Ridout's whole approach... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st February 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2025, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Young Talent of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Winner - Instrumental
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This latest recording once again showcases his singers' effortless versatility both as choristers and soloists...One of Tenebrae's great strengths is to bring both dignity and panache to these... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2025, August 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Winner - Choral
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Imaginative, sensitive programming has been a constant feature of Ruby Hughes’s collaborations; and this latest with the perennially adventurous Manchester Collective is no exception...A disc... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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Unlike much contemporary music, Shaw’s compositions exemplify what Simon Rattle long ago said about John Adams’s essence – that there’s always the sense of ‘moving forward in space’…The sophistication... —
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Winner - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Chamber
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019)
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Five-voice Papagena are a class act...this album confirms the creativity, skill and musicianship of a group that deserves King's Singers levels of success and attention. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2026, Editor's Choice
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The Red Priest’s cello concertos flaunt Kobekina’s electrifying virtuosity and the high-octane playing of the Basel Chamber Orchestra under violinist Julia Schröder’s spirited direction. Yet... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Young Talent of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Shaw’s haunting, energetic music has a vigorous quality, and the composer’s words are a lively guide to listening. A violinist herself, she writes idiomatically for string quartet forces, relishing... —
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Composer of the Year
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Special offer. Beethoven/5 Vol. 5
Jonathan Biss (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Malin Broman
[Shaw] has an assured control of expectation, and even when the music dissolves into something surprising, it seems, in retrospect, as if we have been expecting it all along. Overall, a memorable... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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a real winner on all counts - the individual players are hugely impressive when required to step into the spotlight, and the intensity of the collective sound in tutti passages is overwhelming... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Nightfall
Andrea Haines (soprano), Molly Noon (soprano), Katie Jeffries-Harris (alto), Barnaby Smith (alto), Blake Morgan (tenor), Euan Williamson (tenor), Christopher Moore (baritone), Dominic Carver (bass), Thomas Gould (violin), Emma Denton (cello), Sam Becker (doublebass), MaryRuth Miller (soprano), Lara...
