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Plowright delivers this highly charged musical argument with tremendous momentum, but is careful to follow Brahms's meticulous pedal marks, thus ensuring that none of the full-blooded textures... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Instrumental Choice
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Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas, W 551
Anna Korondi (soprano)
Male voices of the Choir of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra & São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, John Neschling
The music is, of course, wilful, fluid, entirely unpredictable, with moments of extreme violence and tremendous beauty...The orchestration is variegated, by turns dense and transparent, lush... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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If, as is often said, Bach saw fugue as simply the most natural medium for composing beautiful music, Suzuki demonstrates that it is also good for the exciting, the playful, the sombre, and... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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This selection of suites allows Lindberg majestically and authoritatively to traverse a range of affects and styles. Among such treasures it is impossible to assign a hierarchy to these lithe,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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For Kamu, [Tapiola] is a drama of the imagination and one discerns dimly the forest god moving between the trees, just as Sibelius intended. WIth superb sound, this is strongly recommended. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th August 2011
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Per Nørgård: Orchestral Works
Peter Herresthal, Jakob Kullberg, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
Is Nørgård the greatest living symphonist? Listen and decide for yourself. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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judging from this new recording of the five last Beethoven sonatas his keyboard technique is dazzling, and the notoriously demanding 'Hammerklavier', Op. 106 holds no terrors for him. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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German Opera Scenes and Arias
Malin Byström (soprano), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård
Byström comes to this repertoire as essentially a lyric soprano, the voice more cream than steel, soft-edged rather than sharp-focused - also occasionally in her projection of the words. It... —
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Whatever the reason Leiviskä has remained a shadowy figure, conductor Dalia Stasevska has now brought to light three of her orchestral works in f ine performances by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra,... —
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Respighi: Vetrate di chiesa, Il tramonto & Trittico botticelliano
RecommendedAnna Caterina Antonacci (soprano)
John Neschling
What a glorious work, and what a find! Anyone inured to Respighi’s gaudy colours and thumping rhythms will be astonished by the musical and emotional range of this economical score. Neschling,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd February 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Diapason d’Or, March 2018, Nouveauté
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