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Special offer. Jake Heggie: Unexpected Shadows
RecommendedJamie Barton (mezzo-soprano), Jake Heggie (piano), Matt Haimovitz (cello)
In her latest recording, Barton shows that she is a dab hand at contemporary repertoire and artistry on a more intimate scale...Throughout this recital, Barton and Heggie move seamlessly from... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Song
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Special offer. Vincerò!
RecommendedPiotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
This is a big voice with a warm Italianate tone and a fitting sense of the legato required for this repertoire. Verismo sobbing is kept to a minimum. Beczala knows exactly how to build the drama... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th May 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Recording of the Month
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Opera, July 2020, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Arias from each role might as well have been tailor-made for Hallenberg’s pinpoint virtuosity and lyricism, communicative use of language, idiomatic embellishment, intelligently sculpted phrasing... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Opera
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Record Review, 8th July 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Recital
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Special offer. Thomas de Hartmann Rediscovered
Joshua Bell (violin), INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra, Matt Haimovitz (cello), MDR Sinfonieorchester, Dalia Stasevska, Dennis Russell Davies
Hartmann’s fundamentally tonal language in the Violin Concerto] contrasts, and sometimes intertwines, passages of lush romanticism with more dancing, folklike material – think Barber’s Concerto,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Premiere Recordings
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While I’m instinctively sceptical about instrumental transcriptions of vocal works, I was persuaded by how well they work here, and the subtlety and intelligence of the performances…And in this... —
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Nouveauté
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Chamber Music (quartet)
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Special offer. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (Alpine Symphony)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski
Did Jurowski need to record the work again after his spectacular London Philharmonic Orchestra two-disc set?...The production here gives one good reason; the other is the pacing, never rushed... —
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Record Review, 14th August 2021, Record Review
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Conductor of the Year
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Special offer. Igor Stravinsky: Late Works
Cappella Amsterdam, Noord Nederlands Orkest, Daniel Reuss
The best of today's specialist vocal ensembles, whether active in period practice or devoted to the new, can more or less guarantee delivery of the required pitches though vibrato-lite accuracy... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2026, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Francisco Coll: Violin Concerto and other works
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Orchestre Philharmonique Du Luxembourg, Gustavo Gimeno
His Violin Concerto’s three movements...typify his delight in bringing extremes of expression within often terrifyingly close proximity, and is thrillingly realised by Patricia Kopatchinskaja,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Contemporary
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Contemporary
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The sound for this inwardly rewarding performance is warm and spacious, the performance blending a sense of scale with an intimacy, even cosiness, that's part of the Octet's spirit. —
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
RecommendedTomasz Konieczny (Der Wanderer/Wotan), Stephen Gould (Siegfried), Violeta Urmana (Brünnhilde), Anna Larsson (Erda), Matti Salminen (Fafner), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Christian Elsner (Mime), Sophie Klußmann (Stimme eines Waldvogels)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
This is a lively and enjoyable performance of what Wagner called his 'heroic comedy'...listen to the short but dense Prelude and you'll hear many things that you won't have heard on any other... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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