Orchid Classics
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Booth's remarkable capabilities as a singing actress allow her to encompass the multiple personas, verbal dexterity and moments of emotional nakedness that characterise Cocteau's poetry, as... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th June 2026
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New. Eden: The Music of Edward Picton-Turbervill
Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano), George English, Hugh Rowlands, Hannah Watson Emmrich, Ed Lyon (tenor), Hugo Herman-Wilson, Michael Foyle (violin), London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron
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Special offer. Simpson: Geysir and Mozart: Gran Partita
RecommendedMark Simpson, Fraser Langton (clarinet), Nicholas Daniel, Emma Fielding (oboe), Amy Harman, Dom Tyler (bassoon), Oliver Pashley, Ausias Garrigos Morant (basset horns), Ben Goldscheider, Angela Barnes, James Pillai, Fabian van de Geest (horn), David Stark (double bass)
In a teeming catalogue, this new Gran Partita more than holds its own. But the clinching factor for many will be Mark Simpson’s companion piece: a tour de force of wind colour and carefully... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th December 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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It’s an eclectic mix that combines nostalgia with a modern, shuffle-play sense of adventure. As Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Bloom finds luminosity in the changing seasons, Huw Watkins’s Arietta suspends... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, Chamber Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Premiere
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Special offer. Beethoven/5 Vol. 5
Jonathan Biss (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Malin Broman
[Shaw] has an assured control of expectation, and even when the music dissolves into something surprising, it seems, in retrospect, as if we have been expecting it all along. Overall, a memorable... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Michael Berkeley: Collaborations
RecommendedClare Hammond (piano), Madeleine Mitchell (violin), Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Alice Coote (mezzo), Julius Drake (piano), Robert Plane (clarinet), Rachel Roberts (viola), Chris Hopkins (piano), BBC Singers, Joshua Ryan (organ), Neil Tennant (vocals), David Gilmour (vocals/guitar), Owain Park
Here’s a marvellously stylish showcase for some eclectic and characteristically communicative repertoire by the seemingly indefatigable Michael Berkeley. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Special offer. Beethoven/5, Vol. 1
Jonathan Biss (piano), David Afkham, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Biss’ assured command of the demanding keyboard-writing and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s bracing proficiency are well captured… I find much of Biss’ pearly, intimately scaled phrasing... —
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Special offer. Beethoven 5, Vol. 4
Jonathan Biss (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Malin Broman
This is a fresh, original interpretation, built from the ground up with humility, love and integrity, borne of a richly cultivated musical imagination and a technique so complete that its exercise... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2025, Editor's Choice
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