Ludovic Morlot
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Ravel: Piano Concertos & Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain
RecommendedSteven Osborne (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot
Full of colour, both Osborne’s poetry and his exceptional touch are to the fore, the sparkling cascades in the final movement being especially breathtaking…strong performances of a programme... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd June 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Record Review, 22nd July 2017, Recording of the Week
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Special offer. Aaron Jay Kernis & James Newton Howard: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano)
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot, Cristian Măcelaru
This disc showcases three commissions aimed squarely at the Canadian virtuoso’s dazzling skillset. At the centre is a concerto by James Newton Howard…The work is lyrical, wildly cavorting and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Concerto Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Classical Instrumental Solo
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Contemporary Classical Composition
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Dutilleux: Métaboles, L'arbre des songes & Symphony No. 2 'Le double'
RecommendedAugustin Hadelich (violin)
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot
The highlight of this Seattle disc is undoubtedly the violin playing of Augustin Hadelich in L'arbre des songes…the warm recording, with some three seconds of echo, suits this work well, as... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Orchestral
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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a wondrous and tumultuous single-movement work for large orchestra that affirms music's capacity to shift our very state of being...The work combines great formal simplicity...with an almost... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, Orchestral Choice
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Grammy Awards, 57th Awards (2014), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Maurice Ravel I: Complete Orchestral Works
Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona I Nacional de Catalunya, Ludovic Morlot
Morlot balances textures smartly throughout [Le Tombeau de Couperin] and paces each movement well, bringing out the rhythmic bounce of French Baroque music to which Ravel was also paying homage. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Adams sustains the epic breadth by gradually lowering, then raising, the music’s pitch, and subtly bleeding different colours – timpani rolls, plangent horns - into and out of the cloudy notes... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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Dutilleux: Sur le même accord, Les citations, Mystère de l'instant & Timbres, espace, mouvement
Dutilleux: Orchestral Works Vol. 3
Augustin Hadelich (violin), Mary Lynch (oboe), Jordan Anderson (double bass), Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Michael A. Werner (percussion), Chester Englander (cimbalom)
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot
Impeccable orchestral playing under the stewardship of a conductor whose instinct for Dutilleux’s harmonic and gestural sensibilities feels unerringly spot-on —
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Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. II
Fleur Barron (mezzo-soprano), Alexandre Duhamel (baritone), Ludovic Morlot
For all the oriental beauty of Shéhérazade, delivered with suitably seductive warmth by Barron, it is the Mallarmé miniatures that shine most brightly here, with Morlot carefully teasing out... —
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Special offer. Ives: New England Holidays & Orchestral Sets Nos. 1 & 2
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Chorale, Ludovic Morlot
The Seattle Symphony Orchestra captures the dreamlike state, taking on the different characters as the narratives weave in and out of the overreaching story of revolution. —
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Dutilleux: Symphony No. 1
Benjamin Richardson (boy soprano), Kepler Swanson (boy soprano), Andrew Torgelson (boy soprano), Xavier Phillips (cello)
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot
The technical standard of the playing is extremely high. The orchestral negotiates the perils of Dutilleux's scherzo with apparent sangfroid, and at the speed indicated. —
