Warner Classics
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José Serebrier secures an entirely convincing performance in the most opulent sound I've yet heard in his RSNO Glazunov series. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2009, Editor's Choice
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Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
RecommendedElly Ameling, Janet Baker, Robert Tear & Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge & Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Philip Ledger
Recorded in the mid-1970s at King's College Cambridge, this is definitely a 'vintage' Christmas Oratorio. Soloists Elly Ameling, Janet Baker, Robert Tear and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau are on... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Kennedy plays Beethoven & Mozart Violin Concertos
RecommendedNigel Kennedy (violin & direction)
Polish Chamber Orchestra
Too wilful to warrant anything like a general recommendation, except to Kennedy fans and the curious. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th April 2008
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…it's the Verdi group that is the heart of the first half. "In solitaria stanza", with its main theme closely resembling "Tacea la notte" from Il trovatore, must rank as one of the loveliest... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Editor's Choice
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Smetana: The Bartered Bride
RecommendedMarcel Cordes, Nada Puttar, Pilar Lorengar, Gottlob Frick & Fritz Wunderlich
Bamberger Symphoniker & RIAS-Kammerchor, Rudolf Kempe
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Building a Library, May 2023, German Version
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Verdi: Aida
RecommendedMaria Callas (Aida), Richard Tucker (Radamès), Fedora Barbieri (Amneris), Tito Gobbi (Amonasro), Giuseppe Modesti (Ramfis)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
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Building a Library, April 2017, Also Recommended
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Airlines
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Myriam Lafargue (accordion), Florentino Calvo (mandolin), Orchestre National de France, Alexandre Desplat
The virtuosic Airlines and the sprawling tone poem Pelléas et Mélisande prove Desplat to be a composer with something to offer beyond the cinema screen...[but] it's the film suites that truly... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Screen Choice
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Beethoven: Lieder & Folksongs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Vilde Frang (violin), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
[In The Song of the Flea] Pappano invests the fidgety piano part with piquant playfulness whilst allowing Bostridge to flex his comedic muscles to the full…[In An die ferne Geliebte] Bostridge’s... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th July 2020
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Poulenc: La voix humaine & Cocteau: Le bel indifférent
Édith Piaf & Denise Duval
Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique, Georges Prêtre
Duval who created the role gives a compelling performance as Poulenc and Cocteau’s woman abandoned on the telephone, with Georges Prêtre relishing this haunting score. Edith Piaf in Cocteau’s... —
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Diapason d’Or, March 2018, Réédition
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