Pentatone
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Special offer. J.S. Bach & Pärt: Works for Violin & Chamber Orchestra
Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Christoph Koncz (violin), Peter von Wienhardt (piano), Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Steinbacher weaves in and out of Bach’s contrapuntal textures, occasionally reducing her tone to a radiant pianissimo to allow the orchestral lines through...[In Fratres] she demonstrates the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
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Kožená’s dramatic and vocal powers are wonderfully displayed in Gasparini’s kaleidoscope aria ‘Ombre, cure, sospetti’ (with its unrestrained runs and the bursts of emotion in its recitative-like... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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Special offer. Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: Works for Cello and Piano
RecommendedJohannes Moser (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano)
Johannes Moser and Alasdair Beatson offer fine, full-blooded performances of all this repertoire. Beatson uses an Érard piano from 1837…allowing for maximum clarity and lightness in rapid passagework,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The work has an unmistakable cumulative power, and its iridescent orchestration is as beautiful as anyone’s. While the orchestra here is not as lustrous-toned as Zemlinsky would have reckoned... —
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Record Review, 20th June 2020, Record of the Week
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Conductor of the Year
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The period instruments bring a litheness and transparency, with vigour in the third movement allegro molto [in No. 5], the more pastorally phrased interlude liltingly done by the B’Rock, before... —
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Record Review, 21st August 2021, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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With natural pacing and a broad timbral palette, Giorgini is well suited to this music, yet this album does not challenge the front rank in a crowded field. There is a warmth to the sound that... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Piano
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Chen Reiss (soprano), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov
every tempo choice seems perfect. Bychkov doesn’t make an adagio-esque meal of the radiant song that frames the innocence-versus-experience third movement...Dynamics from the quietest imaginable... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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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. Monteverdi: Il Delirio Della Passione
Anna Lucia Richter (soprano), Luca Pianca, Ensemble Claudiana
Richter’s declamatory storytelling reaches an impressive peak in the Lamento d’Arianna where every device of characterisation and emotional evocation is brilliantly deployed, including a collapse... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Corigliano/Adamo: The Lord of Cries
RecommendedAnthony Roth Costanzo (Dionysus), David Portillo (Jonathan Harker), Jarrett Ott (John Seward), Kathryn Henry (Lucy Harker), Matt Boehler (Van Helsing), Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose
It takes a bold composer to set such a story and John Corigliano is more than up to the task…Corigliano gives a nod to operatic tradition with lush moments in 'Hush, darling: hush', expertly... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, World Premiere Recording (New Work)
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