SACD, Mahler (composer)
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Special offer. Mahler: Song Cycles
RecommendedAlice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Albrecht
A mezzo can bring so many colours to the expression, and in that respect Alice Coote matches the previously unsurpassable challenge of Janet Baker with Barbirolli. There’s even a plus: the height,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Record Review, 12th August 2017, Recording of the Week
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Imaginative, sensitive programming has been a constant feature of Ruby Hughes’s collaborations; and this latest with the perennially adventurous Manchester Collective is no exception...A disc... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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The emphasis here is on beautifully judged line and flow, allowing the music's expressive extremes to speak for themselves without any need for exaggeration…This is one of those special listening... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Vänskä’s apparent eccentricities here are mostly to accentuate Mahler’s own in his most outlandish ad unpredictable symphony…All the brass do the Minnesota Orchestra proud, and if the strings... —
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Record Review, 27th June 2020, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2020, Editor's Choice
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the performance level here is straightforwardly stellar, with a rounded, brashness-free overall sound that may well be close to what Mahler knew from the more mellow-toned orchestras of his... —
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedLisa Milne (soprano) & Birgit Remmert (alto)
Budapest Festival Orchestra & The Hungarian Radio Choir, Iván Fischer
…Fischer… rarely pushes too hard. The orchestral sound is lean but not undernourished, allowing for even balance between contesting lines - outstanding in the funereal coda of the first movement... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 10
Recommendedperforming version by Deryck Cooke
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Vänskä sees to it that his ever-waxing Minnesota Orchestra is ideally engaged with the various heights and depths...Limpid and lurid woodwind playing shines out, from the ghoulish clarinets... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th March 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
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a recorded spaciousness...lets every ensemble and solo spirituality resound. That's in evidence from the first magnificent horn cry, to the infinite depth of the truly noble timpani - magnificent... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, Orchestral Choice
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On a technical level this must, I think, be the finest recording the work has received. Every note is audible - and the achievement of the orchestra (still more extraordinary than that of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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Samuel’s musical response is something of a tour de force - at once fiercely dramatic and always coherent…Hughes rises to the challenge with bombproof technical strength and control, plenty... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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