Onyx
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Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 7 ‘Sinfonia Antartica’ & 9
RecommendedRowan Pierce (soprano) & Timothy West (narrator)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Ladies of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Andrew Manze
One big paragraph after another grows and surges unerringly. There are fine individual contributions too. Timothy West’s vivid reading of the superscriptions to each of the Sinfonia antartica’s... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th May 2019
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Record Review, 1st June 2019, Record of the Week
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Elgar: Violin Concerto & Serenade for Strings
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
James Ehnes has a lovely ripe vibrato and an expressive openness that touches the heart from his first entry. It's when it comes to the balancing of confessional intimacy with symphonic purposefulness... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th September 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Concerto
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Ehnes’s breathtaking virtuosity is subsumed entirely into the musicality of these performances, bubbling to the surface only for passages such as the swashbuckling defiance that concludes the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Instrumental
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New. Colin Matthews: Seascapes
Claire Booth (soprano), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Nash Ensemble, Jessica Cottis
[Booth and the Nash Ensemble] perform everything here with exemplary brilliance. The music seems ideally suited to Booth's well-known vocal flexibility - a luminous fluidity of tone allied to... —
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Immortal Beloved: Beethoven Arias
RecommendedChen Reiss (soprano), Oliver Wass (harp)
Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
Reiss manages coloratura passages with ease, her tone bright and clear, her voice firm throughout its considerable range and she is always wonderfully in tune…The Academy of Ancient Music gives... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th March 2020
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Opera, May 2020, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Andrew Manze’s approach, at once equable and gently intense, produces fine results in the first movement [of the Third]…[he] keeps a tight rein on all the eruptive orchestral happenings [of... —
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Building A Library, May 2022, Also Recommended
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Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 5
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Alive and articulate, these three performances remind us that it’s just as possible to be stunned by an original interpretation of a familiar symphony (the Fifth) as it is to be refreshed by... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th June 2016
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Recording of the Year/Orchestral Winner
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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One notoriously tricky passage after another…is brought off with top-flight panache and accuracy…Brilliant precision in the Scherzo, successful avoidance of over-emotive juice-extraction in... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Building A Library, July 2022, Also Recommended
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Given the different methods of tone production required to switch from violin to viola Ehnes, whose first instrument is violin, produces an impressive, seemingly effortless quality of sound... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2024, Editor's Choice
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With some discs, you can just tell that everything’s going to go like a dream… The freshness and spontaneity of these interpretations is unfaltering, as is the instantaneous rapport and subtle,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Chamber
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