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Special offer. Valentin Silvestrov: To Thee We Sing
RecommendedSacred Choral Works
Kārlis Rūtentāls (tenor), Ieva Ezeriete (soprano), Dace Strautmane (contralto), Agata Burkina (soprano), Rūdolfs Bērtiņš (tenor)
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava
The Latvian Radio Choir under Sigvards Klava sing, as expected, with a scintillating beauty. None of this programme…could be labelled technically easy. Fortunately the singers' intonation, balance... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Special offer. Magnus Lindberg: Viola Concerto, Absence & Serenades
RecommendedLawrence Power (viola), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Power’s delight in the generously proportioned starring role provided for him by the composer is never in doubt, and the skill with which conductor Nicholas Collon ensures that the orchestra... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024, Shortlisted - New Work (Viola Concerto)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Overall, a varied look at one of the most interesting composers around. —
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Diapason d'Or, September 2021, Nouveauté
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Special offer. Richard Strauss: Orchestral Songs
RecommendedSoile Isokoski (soprano)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
Strauss singing doesn't come much better than this. No doubt the composer himself, with his love of the soprano voice, would have been enthralled by Isokoski's glorious singing. He might also... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2002, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Elliott Carter: Late Works
RecommendedPierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Colin Currie (percussion), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Oliver Knussen
brimming with youthful energy and Haydnesque, impish wit...Aimard brings fluent delicacy to the concertos and the orchestral soundings. He is matched in filigree precision by co-protagonists,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Jury Award - Premiere
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Orchestral
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Special offer. Sibelius: Tapiola, En Saga & 8 Songs
RecommendedAnne Sofie von Otter (mezzo)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Lintu has added nothing to the familiar score [Tapiola] – just heard things it seems others haven’t heard before. Best of all is the way he draws out singing lines almost throughout the piece…I’m... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Record Review, 16th December 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Vocal/Choral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, Winner - Assorted Program
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New. Holst: The Planets; Raitio: Moonlight on Jupiter
Helsinki Chamber Choir, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
...memorably poised horn-playing and gorgeously liquid woodwind and harp textures... Collon and his Helsinki colleagues do the composer’s weird and wonderful inspiration absolutely proud. —
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Special offer. Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos & Capriccio Brillant
Lars Vogt (piano/conductor), Orchestre Chambre de Paris
both were designed to display his own credentials as a virtuoso pianist. Lars Vogt ’s dazzling playing on this new recording does them full justice. —
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Record Review, 5th March 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Special offer. Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Violin Concerto, Photoptosis, Die Soldaten Vocal Symphony
RecommendedLeila Josefowicz (violin), Anu Komsi (soprano), Jeni Packalen (soprano), Hilary Summers (contralto), Peter Tantsits (tenor), Ville Rusanen (baritone), Juha Uusitalo (bass)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
In Zimmermann’s Violin Concerto…beauty is to the fore ina performance from Lelia Josefowicz that is more elasticated and lyrical (than, say, Thomas Zehetmair) while the Finnish Radio Symphony... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Special offer. Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto & Orchestral Works
RecommendedClarient Concerto, Gran Duo, Chorale
Kari Kriikku (clarinet)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
Magnus Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto has enjoyed phenomenal success since its 2002 premiere… A marvellous vehicle for the amazing virtuosity of clarinettist Kari Krikku, this is a shiny, sophisticated,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th October 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2005, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Winner - Contemporary
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