Nicholas Collon
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Special offer. Bacewicz: Concertos for 1 & 2 Pianos, Overture & Music for Strings, Trumpets & Percussion
Peter Jablonski and Elisabeth Brauß (piano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
The Piano Concerto (1949) might well appeal to those who enjoy Prokofiev and Bartók, though its sweep, energy and internal logic are entirely Bacewicz’s own. Peter Jablonski, whose recording... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Concerto
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Special offer. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Two Serenades; Two Serious Melodies; Swanwhite
RecommendedChristian Tetzlaff (violin), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
The level of music-making presented here tells its own story. This is a Sibelius recording that’s up there with the finest of any era...And in the two groups of violin-and-orchestra pieces –... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2025, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Special offer. Magnus Lindberg: Viola Concerto, Absence & Serenades
RecommendedLawrence Power (viola), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Power’s delight in the generously proportioned starring role provided for him by the composer is never in doubt, and the skill with which conductor Nicholas Collon ensures that the orchestra... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024, Shortlisted - New Work (Viola Concerto)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Special offer. Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra, Partita for Violin and Orchestra & Novelette
RecommendedChristian Tetzlaff (violin), Jouko Laivuori, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
This compelling release from conductor Nicholas Collon and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra makes clear the evolutionary exuberance of Lutosławski’s creative development. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2024, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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New. Holst: The Planets; Raitio: Moonlight on Jupiter
Helsinki Chamber Choir, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
...memorably poised horn-playing and gorgeously liquid woodwind and harp textures... Collon and his Helsinki colleagues do the composer’s weird and wonderful inspiration absolutely proud. —
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Special offer. Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
John Findon (Gerontius), Christine Rice (Angel), Roderick Williams (Priest/Angel of the Agony)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, various choirs, Nicholas Collon
At times [Collon] inculcates an operatic immediacy, and seldom have the orchestral textures sounded so Wagnerian – as if Elgar had recently been leaf ing through the pages of Parsifal. Indeed... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Choral
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Special offer. Lotta Wennäkoski: Sigla; Flounce; Sedecim
Sivan Magan (harp), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Together [the movements of Sedecim] form a substantial triptych, the orchestra explored with tremendous verve in a modernist idiom distinguished by its invigorating lightness of touch. The 2022... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Contemporary
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Hans Zender: Schubert's Winterreise
RecommendedA Composed Interpretation
Allan Clayton (tenor), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Nicholas Collin and the Aurora Orchestra rise to Zender's challenges handsomely...Allan Clayton is one of a handful of tenors with the vocal dexterity to take on Zender's reworking of Schubert's... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th January 2026
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Four Spirits
RecommendedAbel Selaocoe (cello), Bernhard Schimpelsberger (percussion), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Selaocoe is a breathtakingly vibrant artist who has a poignant understanding of the umbilical cord between music, community and spirituality... It's a quasi-scat style that at times recalls... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th August 2025
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Concerto Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Premiere
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Benedetti’s first entry is swift, weightless and agile, landing as it does on the softest of pianissimos, the effect at once both virtuosic and ethereal...because her overall approach is so... —
