Bonis
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New. Mel Bonis: Orchestral Works
RecommendedElizabeth Watts (soprano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba
Gamba and the BBCSSO perform everything wonderfully well. Trois femmes is gorgeous in its heady immediacy and kaleidoscopic detail...It's an album that adds much to our understanding of Bonis's... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th June 2026
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Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers
RecommendedThéo Fouchenneret (piano), Tristan Raës, Cyrille Dubois (soloist), Roberto Prosseda (piano), Alessandra Ammara, Ismaël Margain, François Dumont (piano), Anna Agafia, Anaïs Constans (soloist), Marie Vermeulin, David Zobel, Yann Beuron (soloist), Étienne Manchon, Aude Extrémo (soloist), François Rougier...
Although women composers are at last getting more attention, there have been few discoveries as encyclopedic as this. Across eight discs, the legacy of 21 French Romantic composers is explored,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Box Set of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Kacperek's fluid playing makes even the most challenging pieces sound effortless. She captures the varied characters of the earlier composers with sparkle...This is a must-listen for anyone... —
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Lekeu's Sonata is a real gem and has received a number of fine recordings...Urioste and Poster present a highly persuasive account, slightly more relaxed, allowing the long violin lines to breathe. —
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A charm of lullabies, or an excess? If anyone could convince you that mostly slow and soft can work as an album sequence, it would be sonic magician Bertrand Chamayou...Within the narrow compass... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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With his resplendent mezzo-soprano-ish tone quality and ease of vocal production, the much-awarded Hugh Cutting represents a new level in the evolution of the countertenor voice in this debut... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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New. Mel Bonis: Orchestral Works
Lydia Teuscher (soprano), Julie Robard-Gendre, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Damen des WDR Rundfunkchores, Joseph Bastian
All these sets of miniatures are absolute charmers. The songs are also lovely… sung with panache here by Lydia Teuscher… The WDR Symphony play stylishly for Bastian, and the recorded sound is... —
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New. She Composed - 53 Piano Pieces by Women Composers
Yami CruzMontero, Karla Martínez, Serena Chillemi, Johanna Henschel, Marie Sophie Hauzel (piano), Débora Halász (piano), Iván Rolón, Jelena Stojkovic, Sonja Uhlmann, Dmitry Mayboroda, Markus Bellheim
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Roset's light lyric voice stretches high above the stave with a rapid fire coloratura that takes no prisoners, yet when she reaches for the vocal horizon in Koechlin's 'M'a dit Amour' her diction... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2026, Editor's Choice
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Fortissima
RecommendedRaphaela Gromes (cello), Julian Riem (piano), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Anna Rakitina
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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