Pentatone
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Special offer. Elgar & Tchaikovsky: Cello Works
Johannes Moser (cello)
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Andrew Manze
Moser is an unfailingly elegant soloist…the Tchaikovsky Variations have a suitably Rococo grace and spirit —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Mozart: Paris & Haffner Symphonies & Oboe Concerto
Xenia Loffler (oboe), Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
The excellent period instrument Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin treat [the Paris Symphony] with due sophistication and restraint...The Akademie’s great clarity in this recording gives a frequently... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Special offer. Vivaldi & Piazzolla: The Four Seasons
Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Munich Chamber Orchestra
For those who despair at the number of recent ‘HIP’ versions…in which Vivaldi’s onomatopoeic effects have been allowed to run riot, Steinbacher’s alluring tone, espressivo phrasing, subtle vibrato... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Special offer. Future Horizons: Escaich, Bacri & Jarrell
RecommendedWorks For Oboe, Violin and Orchestra
François Leleux (oboe), Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Hr-Sinfonieorchester, Andrés Orozco-Estrada
When music such as this can be challenging yet engaging, highbrow yet accessible, who is to say that the horizon of contemporary music remains beyond the reach of so many listeners? —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 'Babi Yar'
RecommendedOleg Tsibulko (bass), The Choir of the Popov Academy of Choral Art, Kozhevnikov Choir, Russian National Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
This beautifully engineered studio recording under Kirill Karabits has all the necessary adrenaline to keep the listener fully engaged. Karabits is particularly effective in negotiating the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th July 2020
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Even the first song seems tinged with a premonition of the painful trajectory that will lead to the watery embrace of the brook...What follows isn’t so much an initially wide-eyed voyage of... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2020
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Special offer. John Williams: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Bernstein: Serenade
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin), Saint Louis Symphony, Stéphane Denève
I’ve always admired the modesty and truthfulness of James Ehnes as a player – and you can hear that modesty at work in Phaedrus’s opening address from the Bernstein Serenade. There’s an unfussy... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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This thrilling new release of the Transylvanian composer’s music for string quartet embraces three contrasting periods of his output...These players, who have specialised in modern music since... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Hu brings impressive pianistic skills to Granados. She is a deft colourist, with a multitude of attach and release strategies, making her articulation both precise and varied. Her sound is plush... —
