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Thomas Adès: Dante
RecommendedLos Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gustavo Dudamel
Adès takes Liszt’s legacy of demonic harmony and develops it further away some of the orchestral layers to reveal recorded voices from the congregation at the Great Ades Synagogue in Jerusalem,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st April 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, Orchestral Choice
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Winner - Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Unlike much contemporary music, Shaw’s compositions exemplify what Simon Rattle long ago said about John Adams’s essence – that there’s always the sense of ‘moving forward in space’…The sophistication... —
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Winner - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Chamber
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019)
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John Adams: Doctor Atomic
RecommendedGerald Finley (Robert Oppenheimer), Julia Bullock (Kitty Oppenheimer), Brindley Sherratt (Edward Teller), Samuel Sakker (James Nolan), Andrew Staples (Robert Wilson), Jennifer Johnston (Pasqualita)
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Adams
Finley ‘owns’ the characterisation of J Robert Oppenheimer…and Julia Bullock’s Kitty [is] the most ardent possible. All else is compelling on every level, with superb British support from Brindley... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th June 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Opera Recording
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Opera (20th/21st century)
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Opera
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Winner - Opera
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John Adams: Girls of the Golden West
RecommendedJulia Bullock (Dame Shirley), Ryan McKinny (Clarence), Davone Tines (Ned Peters), Hye Jung Lee (Ah Sing), Daniela Mack (Josef Segovia), Paul Appleby (Joe Cannon), Elliot Madore (Ramón)
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, John Adams
The influence of Ives can be heard in the shifting layers; once a funeral march, now a Fourth of July celebration. As Dame Shirley, Julia Bullock is on scintillating form, particularly as she... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Opera Choice
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International Opera Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Engineered Classical Album
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Opera
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Shaw’s haunting, energetic music has a vigorous quality, and the composer’s words are a lively guide to listening. A violinist herself, she writes idiomatically for string quartet forces, relishing... —
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Composer of the Year
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Steve Reich: Jacob's Ladder/Traveler's Prayer
RecommendedNew York Philharmonic, Synergy Vocals, Colin Currie Group, Jaap van Zweden, Colin Currie
Reich's concept of an assisted afterlife ascent is imbued with complication. Rather than represent the climb through the more musically obvious scales, Reich instead opts for hazier melodic... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th July 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Walking in the Dark
RecommendedJulia Bullock (soprano), Christian Reif (fortepiano), Philharmonia Orchestra
The tracks for voice and piano are a highlight. Bullock’s performance of ‘City Called Heaven’, a traditional Black spiritual in an arrangement by Hall Johnson, is quite something...The jazz-based... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Record Review, 7th January 2023, Record of the Week
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year, Solo Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Young Talent of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Winner - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Vocal
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Andriessen: The only one
RecommendedNora Fischer (soprano), Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen
It ’s plain that The only one is among the final works of this brilliantly influential composer. There’s no sense of waning powers nor any loss of iconoclastic spirit in its unnervingly surreal... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Premiere
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A winning combination in the hands of virtuosos Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile. Despite musical backgrounds that are poles apart, their previous collaborations [testify] to an exhilarating... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, Chamber Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Chamber Music Recording (Music up to and including 17th/18th Century)
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Land of Winter is typically oblique while being utterly direct – and wonderfully subtle, with a palette that combines Dennehy’s keen poetic awareness of his Irish roots with his fine, spectral... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2024, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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