Vocal, Songs, Bach, J S (composer)
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We don’t normally associate Daniil Trifonov with Bach, so this recording is a revelation…Many pianists radiate effort in their attempts to make intellectual sense of The Art of Fugue: Trifonov’s... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, Instrumental Choice
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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A thoughtful assembly of music depicting affliction and repentance on the one hand and joy and desire on the other. The recording finds Sabine Devieilhe on sparkling form. Bach and Handel do... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Bach: Notebooks for Anna Magdalena
Mahan Esfahani (harpischord/clavichord), Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
What an unfailingly delightful compilation it is, featuring keyboard galanteries, chorale melodies with or without voice and a wide variety of arias...few if any will be disappointed with an... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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…Leonard Slatkin and the BBC Symphony Orchestra relish the considerable technical challenges posed by these transcriptions… those who enjoy their Bach as a full meat-and-two-veg course will... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2004, Editor's Choice
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The Cuban Nutcracker Suite stands comparison with Duke Ellington’s iconic 1960 reworking of the piece, with a sassily swung Overture showcasing Willis’s fabulous lower register and the Trepak... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th November 2025
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Lane in wonderful debonair mode here, sparkling through a personal encore selection from Jamaican Rumba to a Toccata by his own father, and from Myra Hess to Dudley Moore. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd September 2013
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Retrospect
London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron, Jack Liebeck (violin), Andrew Staples (tenor, Thomas Carroll (cello)
The two choral works showcase the unforced sensitivity of the London Choral Sinfonia, who skilfully avoid overheating the patriotism of Kipling’s text for ‘Land of our Birth’, and the funerary... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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Kathleen Ferrier in New York
Bruno Walter, Set Svanholm, New York Philharmonic, Kathleen Ferrier, John Newmark
This disc is a musical time capsule in many ways, above all for Ferrier’s divine singing under Walter’s baton of Das Lied von der Erde… ‘Der Abschied’ is magical: her voice is so fresh, gloriously... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Julian Bream plays Dowland and Bach
Edith Steinbauer (treble viol), Beatrice Reichert (alto viol), Frieda Litschauer (tenor viol), Ernst Knava (bass viol), Julian Bream (lute/guitar)
The Golden Age Singers, Margaret Field-Hyde
…Bream's genius transcends all. Whether it's in the astonishing intensity of Dowland's Melancholy Galliard and Forlorn Hope Fancy or in the finely proportioned sense of pace and drama in Bach's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2008, Re-issue of the Month
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Bach - Piano Transcriptions Volume 9
A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen and other British transcriptions
Jonathan Plowright (piano)
Plowright plays everything with calm, unforced nuance assurance, nicely balancing Bach style and period manners, and making light of all the left-hand skips needed to suggest Bach's organ pedal... —
