CD, Enescu (composer)
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Enescu: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 & Romanian Rhapsodies 1 & 2
Orchestre National de France, Cristian Măcelaru
It's quite a journey, as the languorous finale of the Third Symphony demonstrates (its huge forces include organ and chorus), and Mӑcelaru captures the visionary aspects of the score in an unquestionably... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Orchestral
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Recorded in the warm, generous acoustic of Schloss Elmau, this meeting of two flagship quartets sounds less like a joint venture than eight players sharing a single imagination...Few octet recordings... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th January 2026
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Orchestra/Ensemble of the Year
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A knock-out album opener and a stylistically wide-ranging programme teeming with fascinating intersections and brand-new transcriptions...the aristocratically poised passion is an album-wide... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2026, Editor's Choice
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…a set to place Enescu among the great piano composers, superbly played and recorded. —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, Instrumental Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Instrumental Award Winner
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrumental
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Few, if any, duos are better equipped to take on this mantle than Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich.Aimard’s exceptionally close association with Messiaen and Loriod goes back to... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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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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These musicians capture the rhapsodic flow [of the Martinů] right from the opening of the threemovement work. The orchestral detail, sitting somewhere between impressionism and pointillism,... —
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Above all, Çakmur is a musician with ideas and sophisticated beyond his years. Moreover, he’s blessed with the means to express the richness of his imagination. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Power and Crawford-Phillips are a superb duo, matching their depth and richness of tone with an energetic, passionate approach, and the warm sound lets them shine. —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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