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Special offer. Mason Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
RecommendedEdwards Parks (Steve Jobs), Garrett Sorenson (Steve Wozniak), Sasha Cooke (Laurene), Jessica E. Jones (Chrisann), Wei Wu (Kōbun Chino Otogawa); Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, Michael Christie
Bates’s vocal writing can be taxing, though its challenges are all wonderfully met in the recording…Edward Parks gives a terrific central performance as Jobs, capturing both this charisma and... —
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Opera Recording
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To Kodama’s great credit, she seeks out the subtle beauties of this music, resorting neither to overstatement nor to an assumed naivety. Her clarity of touch and unfailing kinaesthetic sense... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2024
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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. Cerrone: Don't Look Down
RecommendedSandbox Percussion, Conor Hanick, Christopher Cerrone, Elspeth Davis
Written for prepared piano and percussion quartet, this energetic three-movement work springs to life with an infectious groove built on a rhythmic foundation of interlocking repeating patterns... —
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Engineered Classical Album
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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It is a mixed choir of 15 voices which work together splendidly, even if Lassus rarely uses the different ranges to enhance the meaning of the text...An insightful, rewarding and musical recording. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Early Music
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Special offer. Paul Moravec & Mark Campbell: The Shining
RecommendedEdward Parks (Jack Torrance), Kelly Kaduce (Wendy Torrance), Tristan Hallett, Aubrey Allicock (Dick Hallorann), Malcolm MacKenzie (Mark Torrance), Wayd Odle (Delbert Grady), Roger Honeywell (Lloyd)
Kansas City Symphony, Gerard Schwarz
Moravec’s score is richly effective – from the eery evocations of the supernatural at the start, to the lyrical, tender moments between the Torrances before Jack ’s madness takes hold. Edward... —
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Opera Recording
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Richard Strauss: 'Aber der Richtige'
Violin Concerto & Miniatures
Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Foster
Steinbacher is predictably eloquent [in the song arrangements], the playing classy. But the violin itself struggles to project in what are already string-heavy orchestrations, at a tessitura... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2018
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It’s been worth the wait. Each piece reflects absolute clarity of intention, even in the case of the longest and most episodic one, ‘Ricordanza’...The Sonata in B minor gets a noble reading... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Special offer. Franck & Chausson: Symphonies
RecommendedOrchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski
Janowski draws on all his operatic experience to make the melodic lines live and sing. Everything has shape and colour, but these frequent dark undertows are never allowed to wallow in sentimentality.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2007, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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just as Rachmaninov ‘orchestrates’ with his voices, subdividing them into seven and even eight parts, contriving myriad groupings, so Fox ‘plays’ his choir, moulding the 32 singers into a single... —
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Choral Performance
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