Orchid Classics
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…worthy to stand with the best. Gilchrist's light tenor, with its springing rhythmic life, makes us feel that the young lad is living very much in a wide-eyed emotional present, as elusive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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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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I hope [Stravinsky] would be as stunned as I was: [Petrushka] sounds suitably orchestral in the hands of Bjarke Mogensen and Rasmus Schjærff Kjøller, and yet they also shed new light on it...A... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, Chamber Choice
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Special offer. Oleg Shebeta-Dragan Plays Busoni, Françaix, Milhaud & Nielsen
Oleg Shebeta-Dragan (clarinet), Odense Symphony Orchestra, Anna Skryleva
With his warm tone, Shebeta-Dragan is a splendid advocate [for the Busoni] with playing of grace and fluidity, his silken touch making light of the tricky ‘string-inspired arpeggios’ of which... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Mirabilis - The Music of Stephen Hough
RecommendedJames Orford, London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron
He’s a musical magpie, embracing a relaxed eclecticism that in the Mass leans heavily towards France – especially Poulenc – but in passing finds room for Britten, Arvo Pärt and even a snatch... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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It feels as though everything adds up to a completely thought-through and deeply felt interpretation…In every way, then, this is an outstanding achievement, and I only hope the disc gets the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Special offer. Brahms: The Complete String Quartets & Piano Quintet
Peter Laul (piano)
Gringolts Quartet
There's so much sensitive give and take between the four instruments here, so much intimacy and subtle variation of colour, that the feeling is that these are Romantic chamber gems comparable... —
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Special offer. Debussy, Nielsen, Lutosławski and Copland: Clarinet Concertos
Blaž Šparovec, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Vincenzo Milletarì
Šparovec’s breath control, colour palette, ease of articulation and warmth of tone are little short of dazzling. These qualities are all displayed in music that largely delights in being mercurial...And... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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I love the sense of light and space which the puckish Spanish violinist brings to this recital of music from his homeland - there's a fundamental sweetness to Fullana's tone which never crosses... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2023
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Special offer. Rose in Bloom
RecommendedErin Morley (soprano), Gerald Martin Moore (piano), Ransom Wilson (flute)
At the heart of the album is the cycle Huit Chansons de Fleurs, by Ricky Ian Gordon. He’s no slouch when it comes to picturing words in his music – so we have drunken bees teetering along the... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024, Shortlisted - Debut Solo Album
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