Avie
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Nicolas's aptly named debut solo album grows so sweetly, so effortlessly out of silence and slow time that the more one listens, the more one registers the understated beauty of Nicolas's -... —
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Special offer. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson: Handel Arias
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano), Stephen Stubbs, Phoebe Carrai, Margriet Tindemans, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Harry Bicket
If you knew nothing about the background to this 2003 recording it would still be one of the most poignant albums of Handel arias, for the intensity of engagement and communicative power of... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2025, Archive Choice
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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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Vivaldi: The French Connection 2
Adrian Chandler (director/violin), Katy Bircher (flute), Gail Hennessy (oboe) & Peter Whelen (bassoon)
La Serenissima
Chandler has put together a fascinating programme among which are some rarities including two 'world premiere recordings'...Katy Bircher and Chandler himself are the respective soloists [in... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Simon Trpčeski (piano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
[Nos 1 & 4] have never been such sure-fire crowd-pleasers, but Trpčeski certainly plays them with fire and passion. No. 1 emerges as big-boned and compelling, while he plays up the leanly modernist... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice
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Having championed this music since the 1970s, Pinnock now celebrates his command by re-recording a selection of favourites on an historic instrument. The result is riveting. The instrument... —
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Building a Library, June 2014, Also Recommended (compilation on single CD)
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Pienaar displays his collections thematically, connecting dances and variations, imitative and evocative works that suggest battles and birdsong, that paint portraits, tell stories and write... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Margaret Bonds: Credo, Simon Bore the Cross
RecommendedJaninah Burnett (soprano), Dashon Burton (baritone), The Dessoff Choirs, Malcolm J. Merriweather
Beautifully performed here, these two late choral works encapsulate both the warmth of Bonds’ musical language and her passionate advocacy for racial justice. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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