Pentatone
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Special offer. Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Three Intermezzi Op. 117
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi (piano), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Manfred Honeck
The opening horn calls and the piano’s response immediately lands us into the composer’s trademark long-legged melodies, coloured and shaped by Piemontesi with vigour and sensitivity — a soloist,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20
State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia “Evgeny Svetlanov”, Vladimir Jurowski
Jurowski lacks nothing in terms of passionate commitment – the impact of his recording, especially when the SACD surround-track is activated, is all-engulfing – and conjures up a compelling... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 1st December 2018, Disc of the Week
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It’s a repertoire that is perfectly matched to Bostridge’s gifts. Never a conventional lyric tenor, he remains in his maturity a superbly expressive singer...Giorgini is a sturdy companion on... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Special offer. Taneyev, S: Cantata No. 2 'At the Reading of a Psalm', Op. 36
St Petersburg Cappella Choir, Boys Choir of the Glinka Choral Academy, Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev
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Special offer. Mozart: Sinfonia concertante, Rondo for violin & Concertone in C
RecommendedJulia Fischer & Gordon Nikolic (violins)
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg
Listen to the start of the great Sinfonia Concertante, here replete with an energy which doesn't preclude sensitivity of phrasing or detail of instrumental colour. …Fischer and Nikolic emerge... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Hans Sommer: Orchestral Songs
RecommendedMojca Erdmann, Anke Vondung, Mauro Peter, Benjamin Appl, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Guillermo García Calvo
The RundfunkSinfonieorchester Berlin sounds rich and glossy, with four strong soloists. Yet I was repeatedly left with the sensation of a composer trying too hard. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Vocal
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Premiere Recordings
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Avdeeva reveals her finest qualities as an interpreter in Prokofiev’s monumental Eighth Sonata. The opening is flexible yet tense, never too personal, imbued with a subtle undercurrent of apprehension —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Campra's sacred music is built on a solid Renaissance understanding, it seems, and Christie knows this inasmuch as he finds a tempo that is at once tenderly rolling yet also stretches into eternity. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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A selection box of miniatures provides elegant pace-breakers to [the] longer works in the form of Lili Boulanger's Nocturne and Florence Price's Five Songs. —
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Throughout, her sure technical control, phrasing judiciously moulded, and varied tone colour enliven her choices. —
