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Special offer. Works By Florence Price, Valerie Coleman and Jessie Montgomery
RecommendedMichelle Cann (piano), New York Youth Symphony, Michael Repper
They get Price right, with playing full of flair. Montgomery’s Soul Force offers a powerful conclusion. —
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Winner - Best Orchestral Performance
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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New. Christopher Tyler Nickel: Stabat Mater; Magnificat
Catherine Redding (soprano), Vancouver Chamber Choir, Vancouver Contemporary Orchestra, Kari Turunen, Clyde Mitchell
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Stranger - Works For Tenor By Nico Muhly
RecommendedNicholas Phan (tenor), Reginald Mobley, Lisa Kaplan, Colin Jacobsen, Brooklyn Rider, The Knights, Eric Jacobsen
This personal and deeply-felt album from star tenor Nicholas Phan offers a powerful exploration of what ‘national identity’ might mean...Muhly’s crisply unsentimental settings afford due space... —
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022, World Premiere Recording (New Work)
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Anna Clyne: DANCE - Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto
Inbal Segev, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin Alsop
In the final movement of Anna Clyne’s DANCE...a bear-hug of a theme emerges through angry, percussive col legno snaps that is so beautiful, so heartfelt that it instantly drew tears on first... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, Editor's Choice
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Evident in its graceful dance of separation and re-joining, care in a profound sense feels apropos the entire album, smartly performed by various combinations of the Cleveland Soloists and titled... —
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Passing By: Songs by Jake Heggie
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano), Zheng Cao (mezzo-soprano), Frederica von Stade (soprano), Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano) & Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Paul Groves (tenor), Keith Phares (baritone), Dawn Harms (violin), Carlamaria Rodrigues (viola), Emil Miland (cello) & Jake Heggie (piano),...
...the composer's own fluent piano-playing, an expert string group and a good if sometimes over-glossy recording provide support for some world-class singers...who are clearly revelling in the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Editor's Choice
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Anna Clyne: Mythologies
RecommendedIrene Buckley, Jennifer Koh (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, Sakari Oramo, Andrew Litton, André de Ridder
Wildly exuberant, [Masquerade] suited its celebratory purpose to a T – and its live recording does likewise in opening this album of showstopping orchestral works...the album title Mythologies... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Schubert: Trout Quintet, Waltzes, Lndler
Yann Dubost, Thymos Quartet, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (piano), Christoph Eschenbach
In this delightful recording, the limelight is shared between Christoph Eschenbach’s crystalline piano playing and the creamy string sound, underpinned by the rumbling, bouncing bass. The tempo... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2020, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Crossing the Bar
Mika Stolzman (marimba), Richard Stoltzman (clarinet), Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Modern Orchestra Project
The vibe is relaxed, valuing melodicism above virtuosity, and featuring like-minded, genre-defying friends not least Stoltzman's clarinettist husband Richard. —
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One of the most eclectic (and electrifying) solo projects to emerge from lockdown, this unaccompanied recital sees Croisé extracting every possible sonority from his instrument without ever... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2021
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