Choral, Liszt (composer)
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Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works
RecommendedLeif Ove Andsnes (piano), The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Pedersen
Choral singing is well-focused from the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir under Grete Pedersen, and the difficult acoustic balance is well judged; but the chief attention here is on Andsnes’s idiomatic,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th April 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Piano
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2025, Musique Chorale
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Liszt: A Faust Symphony & Mephisto Waltz No. 3
Airam Hernández (tenor), Staatskapelle Weimar, Kirill Karabits
The Staatskapelle Weimar, plays with stunningly rounded beauty, recorded in flawless sound...I cannot recommend these performances too highly. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Liszt Complete Music for Solo Piano: New Discoveries 3
Romancero espagnol, Trois Chansons, Two further pieces from Christus, Wilde Jagd – Scherzo, Album-Leaves, and several first and second thoughts.
Leslie Howard (piano)
These CDs...amount to something more than the latest necessary purchase for completists: indeed this latest batch of previously unknown or long-forgotten items assembles into a pleasingly comprehensive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2011, Editor's Choice
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Mein Traum
RecommendedSchubert, Weber, Schumann
Stéphane Degout (baritone), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Degout is convincing throughout, his expressive range spanning both ferocity and vulnerability...The real stars, though, are the period orchestra Pygmalion. The instrumental colours glow and... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Liszt: Dante Symphony, Künstlerfestzug; Tasso
RecommendedStaatskapelle Weimar, Knabenchor der Jenaer Philharmonie, Damen des Opernchores des Deutschen Nationaltheaters Weimar, Kirill Karabits, Berit Walther
Karabits and the Staatskapelle offer powerful and well-balanced accounts, taking the works on their own terms and drawing out the best they have to offer…In the Symphony’s Magnificat, the two... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th January 2020
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Diapason d’Or, April 2020, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Liszt: Missa Choralis
Thomas Trotter (organ), Elizabeth Atherton, Jane Bovell (sopranos), Harriet Webb (mezzo soprano), Jeanette Ager (contralto), John Bowley, Andrew Peter King (tenors), Leigh Melrose (baritone), Nicholas Warden (bass)
Corydon Singers, Matthew Best
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Howard, catching the authentic tinge of hysteria, mounts swiftly upwards in an ecstasy that burns away awareness of mere notes —
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As choice as anything he's yet given us and the same goes for the recording —
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Following eight highly acclaimed discs of 'Organ Fireworks', the winning combination of Christopher Herrick and Hyperion turn their attention towards the calmer and more reflective repertory... —
