Orchestral, Bartók (composer)
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Special offer. Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra
RecommendedNetherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Karina Canellakis
Canellakis faces stern competition in the Concerto for Orchestra...The great vir tue of this performance, however, is that Canellakis places more emphasis on the work’s shadowy and anguished... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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It is the flavour of this Concerto for Orchestra that wins the day. Just sample the subtle portamento that spices the string line at bars 52-3 (2'36'') of the first movement, and the sombre... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2005, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, January 2022, Recommended Recording
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The orchestra is alert to every surprise and vagary, with especially fine playing from the woodwind...Ippolito’s own contribution is full of imaginative off-piste moments, but for me the great... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2021
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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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Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
RecommendedHelsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki
Mälkki and her Helsinki Philharmonic offer performances that are at once satisfying, dazzling and individual. There’s a poise, indeed an elegance, to the basic good posture of these interpretations,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, January 2022, Also Recommended
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Bartók: The Wooden Prince & The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki
[The Wooden Prince’s] essential warmth, rooted in folk-like melodies (but never folksiness) , comes across well here in Susanna Mälkki’s recording, since with a feeling for the score’s rubato... —
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Record Review, 29th June 2019, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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RecommendedMusic for Violin & Piano by Bartók, Poulenc & Ravel
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Polina Leschenko (piano)
Playing of such consummate ease combined with involvement and attention to detail...Simply, this is one of the finest, most musically sensitive recordings to have come my way for some time,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th February 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Chamber
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Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste
RecommendedHungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltan Kocsis
Every strand in Bartók's dense contrapuntal argument emerges here with amazing clarity...The performance, too, is utterly compelling...Kocsis's steadfast refusal to let the tension sag coupled... —
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Building a Library, January 2015, Highly Recommended
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, Disc of the month
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and François-Frédéric Guy get every subtle detail in place. —
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Editor's Choice
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Bartok: Orchestral Suite No. 2
RecommendedBartok New Series - Vol. 6
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltan Kocsis
Zoltán Kocsis has a world reputation as a pianist… On this evidence his conducting is equally as mesmerising, and equally insistent on never conjuring attention away from the music...In Bartók's... —
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Building a Library, September 2013, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Orchestral Finalist
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Măcelaru’s new recording with the WDR Sinfonieorchester, of which he is chief conductor, is vividly appealing and captured in sound of great warmth, even lushness. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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