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Special offer. Britten & Hindemith: Violin Concertos
Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski
Steinbacher’s lithe playing, alive to both concertos’ volatilities, is matched by orchestral playing of depth and heart. —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Special offer. Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques, Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major, Schoenberg: Piano Concerto
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi (piano), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott
You have to envy the citizens of Geneva...Add a pianist in Francesco Piemontesi’s class, and here are stellar interpretations of three very different concerto-type works, ordered into a journey... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th July 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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from first note to last, his dazzlingly impulsive and brilliant performances seem winningly uncontrived. An invigorating lack of artifice always lets the music speak fully on its own terms,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2025, Editor's Choice
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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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Special offer. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater & Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus
Shira Patchornik (soprano), Maarten Engeltjes (counter-tenor), Prjct Amsterdam
All in all a very moving and engaging performance from one of the newest and slickest ensembles on the scene. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera
Freddie de Tommaso (Riccardo), Saioa Hernández (Amelia), Lester Lynch (Renato), Elisabeth Kulman (Ulrica), Annika Gerhards (Oscar)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Marek Janowski
De Tommaso turns out to be the real deal, singing with a confidence and ease that seem astonishing for a singer who was only 28 at the time of the recording, His is a real *spinto* tenor: bright... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2023, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Magdalena Kožená and Mitsuko Uchida have the kind of symbiosis that comes from having performed this repertoire together for many years, moving as one in the Wagnerian ebb and flow of Debussy’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Special offer. Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas
RecommendedSan Francisco Symphony, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Bay Brass, Isabel Leonard, Audra McDonald, New World Symphony, Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, John Wilson
For listeners whose musical lives have been inexorably shaped by MTT the conductor (and I count myself as one of those), perhaps it’s high time we should be giving MTT the composer the respect... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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For all three quartets, a macrocosm of underworldly music finds both refinement and yet abandon in this standout recording. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2025
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Special offer. Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 & The Poem of Ecstasy
Russian National Orchestra & Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory, Mikhail Pletnev
there is a good deal which is captivating in Mikhail Pletnev's excellent performance: in the thistledown Scherzo, the Russian National Orchestra demonstates polished and tight ensemble playing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Editor's Choice
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