Orchid Classics
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Special offer. Arion: Voyage of A Slavic Soul
RecommendedNatalya Romaniw (soprano), Lada Valešová (piano)
Make no mistake, Romaniw is a great talent. The plush richness of her soprano is astonishing...Romaniw taps into the melancholy of the Russian songs especially well…The selection from Janáček’s... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Song
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Special offer. Heart & Hereafter
RecommendedCollected songs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
She’s a persuasive advocate for this largely unknown repertoire. Llewellyn has extensive operatic experience...and it shows in the Six Sorrow Songs that open the recital...Llewellyn leaves no... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, World Premiere Recording of the Year (Rediscovery)
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Newcomer
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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. The Four Quarters
The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell (tape), Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress (electronics), William Marsey (tape)
This terrific, imaginative debut recording from the young British quartet is built around the eponymous 2011 work by Thomas Adès, which is interleaved with the group's own arrangements of works... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Special offer. Charmes
RecommendedSongs by Viardot-García, Schumann, Mahler & Kaprálová
Olena Tokar (soprano), Igor Gryshyn (piano)
The luxuriant bloom of Tokar’s voice is perfectly matched by Gryshyn’s old-fashioned, elastic piano accompaniments. Tempo choices are generous and unhurried...Tokar and Gryshyn fully inhabit... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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The duo's opulent, quasi-orchestral conception of the B flat Theme and Variations markedly differs from the crisper fortepiano-like transparency and faster tempos in the Decca recording by Roberto... —
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Mark and David Kaplan respond well to the music's warmth, capturing it with natural rapport. Kaplan père, now in his seventies, has lived long with these pieces, and his experience shows in... —
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Throughout, Liu’s fingerwork is unfailing...and her balances are breathtaking, especially in passages featuring superimposed rhythms. Overall, a major appearance by a pianist who has remained... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Hans Christian Aavik Plays Max Bruch & Erkki-Sven Tüür
Hans Christian Aavik (violin), Odense Symphony Orchestra, Gemma New
Aavik’s playing is technically superb, making light of this work's often considerable technical demands. Octaves and double-stopped passagework, for example, are razor-honed, and intonation... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2025, Concerto Choice
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Special offer. Choral Music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
RecommendedLondon Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron
This is interesting and neglected music which is certainly worth rediscovery by choirmasters and choral directors on the lookout for new repertoire. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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