Satie
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Special offer. Camino
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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The beauty of Alice Coote’s mezzo-soprano glows with radiance. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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The result is not so much a viewing of Satie though a Cageian lens, but a viewing of the two through the distinctive, brilliant lens of a sensitive pianist, newly converted. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Solo Instrumental Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Concept Album
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In short, this highly recommendable collection represents a model of imaginative and provocative programming. —
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In this utterly delightful disc [Ogawa] manages to convey not only Satie’s quirkiness, but his honesty…Ogawa does use the sustaining pedal, but sparingly. She also, as we know, has a fine technique... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st July 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Special offer. Four Hands
RecommendedAlexandre Tharaud (piano), Bruce Liu (piano), David Fray (piano), Beatrice Rana (piano), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Gautier Capuçon (piano), Juliette (piano), Michel Dalberto (piano), Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Momo Kodama (piano), Mariam Batsashvili...
One of Tharaud’s aims is to reveal repertoire which has been largely lost, and in this respect he is resoundingly successful...Everything here has charm, and radiates what should always be the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th May 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Instrumental Choice
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Hannigan and De Leeuw perfectly capture the elusive, emotionally detached nature of Socrate —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2016, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2016, Editor's Choice
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This classy, sassy collection of transcriptions of music by Debussy, Milhaud, Satie, Joplin and Auric could be just the tonic you need in these unsettled and unsettling times, regardless of... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2020
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Amuse-Bouche
RecommendedFrench Choral Delicacies
Anna Markland (piano)
I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth
As pianist and singer, Markland offers the most idiomatic performance. She plays Satie’s Gnossiennes 4, 5 and 6 beautifully and sings the top line of Milhaud’s Deux Poèmes and Poulenc’s Un soir... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Choral
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Spanning four centuries, this gorgeous recital from a couple who were brought together through a mutual love of French Baroque is absolutely hypnotic stuff...Desandre's limpid, flexible mezzo... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2023
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