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Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending & Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
The success-level here is excellently high. Collectors will savour a genuine rarity: the composer’s own orchestra-only arrangement of the Serenade to Music…the music sounds as rapturously beautiful... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2019
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Vaughan Williams: Job, Old King Cole & The Running Set
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Trepidation stalks Manze's Job from the outset, the ostensibly pastoral opening shaded by an undertow of dark foreboding...All told, this is a Job rich in colour and atmosphere, projected with... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2023, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Orchestral
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Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony & Symphony No. 8
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
This is expressive and atmospheric playing, rarely heard since Boult. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th April 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau & Schreker: Der Geburtstag der Infantin
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
This warmly recorded version not only goes to the top of the tree as the most satisfying account of Zemlinsky’s score in the current catalogue, but also trumps its closest rivals in offering... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Record Review, 1st May 2021, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st May 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Record Review, Records of the Year 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad; Holst: Egdon Heath, St. Paul's Suite
RecommendedAndrew Manze (violin), Cormac Henry, Helena Mackie, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
The playing and recording are superlative and this moving collection can be recommended without reservation. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st October 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Manze earns himself a large plus-point for taking the Fifth Symphony’s Scherzo second movement closer to Vaughan Williams’s ‘Presto’ tempo marking than usually happens…the music’s quicksilver... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 7th April 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4
RecommendedMaria João Pires (piano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
Never for a moment does she over-reach herself or force pace and sonority...Few pianists have ever been more true to their own lights and it is hardly surprising that her many performances of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Concerto
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Special offer. Aaron Jay Kernis & James Newton Howard: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano)
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot, Cristian Măcelaru
This disc showcases three commissions aimed squarely at the Canadian virtuoso’s dazzling skillset. At the centre is a concerto by James Newton Howard…The work is lyrical, wildly cavorting and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Concerto Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Classical Instrumental Solo
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Contemporary Classical Composition
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Belohlavek and the orchestra are superb in the first three symphonies. He captures Martinu's shimmering, luminous orchestral textures and invests the pervasive 'sprung' rhythms of the faster... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Disc of the Month
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Building a Library, May 2016, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Orchestral
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Building a Library, September 2019, Recommended
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Barber, Walton and Korngold: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey
It's an inspired coupling, as well as a generous one, to have these three high-romantic concertos together. James Ehnes gives superb performances, bringing out their full emotional thrust without... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)
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