Orchestral, Berlioz (composer)
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What is there left to say about Symphonie fantastique? Plenty, on the evidence of this vibrant new recording of Berlioz’s extraordinary masterpiece...Mäkelä gets the strings to shun the comfort... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th June 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Special offer. Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été & Harold en Italie
RecommendedMichael Spyres (baritenor), Timothy Ridout (viola), Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, John Nelson
This is special. Two extraordinary masterpieces...Two outstanding soloists thoroughly immersed in Berlioz’s music, partnered by an orchestra and conductor with an unsurpassed pedigree in the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th November 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year, Solo Vocal & Conductor of the Year
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Davis is always lithe and nuanced, somehow eliciting a diaphonous glow even in the forceful moments and charming the ear —
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Building a Library, October 2011, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2001, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert
Recorded in May 2013, Philharmonie Berlin
Deborah York (soprano) & Stella Doufexis (mezzo-soprano)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
The bonus documentary on Claudio Abbado's first year with the Berlin Philharmonic is full of insights…[the last concert] gave the [Berliners] a chance to show in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Symphonic
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'Fantastique' indeed as the symphony has all its original colours via the stunning period instruments of Anima Eterna —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th April 2010
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2010, Disc of the Month
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A Tribute To Pauline Viardot
RecommendedMarina Viotti (mezzo-soprano), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Imperceptibly Viotti makes them her own, tender but tough in Rosina’s ‘Una voce poco fa’ and producing a cascade of diamondbright coloratura in ‘Bel raggio lusinghier’, as well as an astonishing... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year & Solo Vocal
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Solo Recital)
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This superb recording further confirms, if it were necessary, that performing such music with contemporary instruments, but strings and no vibrato anywhere is far more than an exercise in scholarship.... —
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Record Review, 2nd November 2019, Disc of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Orchestral
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Berlioz: Harold en Italie & Les Nuits d'été
RecommendedTabea Zimmermann (viola), Stéphane Degout (baritone)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Les Nuits d’été rapidly came to be seen as a vehicle for female voice. Stephane Dégout’s superb account makes clear this need not be so…Roth’s period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles provides... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th January 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Special offer. Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Vadim Repin, Daniel Hope (violins)
Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Sascha Goetzel
Vadim Repin and Daniel Hope are, not surprisingly, ideally fluent, and the excellent Turkish players recreate Turnage’s enigmatic soundworld with aplomb. This is an uncompromising score, but... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Overture Les francs-juges
RecommendedChicago Symphony Chorus (chorus)
Sir Georg Solti
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Classical Album of the Year
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