CD, Satie (composer)
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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 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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In short, this highly recommendable collection represents a model of imaginative and provocative programming. —
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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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Letters From Paris
Alexandra Whittingham (guitar), Carducci Quartet (stringquartet, string quartet), Thea Sayer (doublebass), Matthew Denton (violin), Michelle Fleming (violin), Eoin Schmidt-Martin (viola), Emma Denton (cello), Margarita Balanas (cello), Stephanie Jones (guitar), Jess Gillam (sopranosaxophone)
This colourful box of sweets by Alexandra Whittingham is a guitar album of characterful, small pieces interspersed with pretty collaborations, lifting the spirits and presenting some unashamed... —
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Early 20th-century French eccentric Erik Satie's piano pieces are ubiquitous, as are Debussy's orchestrations of two of his famously lyrical "Gymnopèdies." This album includes the Debussy arrangements,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 1999, Editor's Choice
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Vassilena Serafimova proves just how much fun one can have with a marimba (and, briefly, vibraphone)...Give it a go - it's a very likeable listen. —
