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Ollikainen and the ISO's vivid and colourful accounts cast fresh light on all four works. A recording that will do much to seal Pärt's symphonic legacy for years to come. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th April 2026
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Special offer. Kenneth Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
RecommendedAdam Walker (flute), Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Conductor John Wilson and his colleagues in the Sinfonia of London do a masterful job of bringing these recorded premieres to what I hope will be a wide audience, and I shall greatly be anticipating... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th July 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Adrian Sutton: Violin Concerto and other works
Fenella Humphreys (violin), BBC Philharmonic, Michael Seal
Sutton’s natural métier is the theatre, and even the Violin Concerto has an external programme which concerns a seagull and its appearance around various coastlines...Sutton was himself a violinist,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2024, Orchestral Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Winner - Premiere
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Earth, Sea, Air: British Music For Cello and Orchestra
RecommendedLaura van der Heijden (cello), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth
Van der Heijden is mesmerising, her intense, focused tone powerfully articulating its pained rhetoric, her keening lyricism punctuated with grittier, muscular anger. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Come to Me in My Dreams
120 years of songs from the RCM
Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Joseph Middleton (piano)
A varied collection that offers more than just vocal bonbons…Connolly and Middleton execute the complex phrasing [of A Charm of Lullabies] with a sense of ensemble for which they are revered. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music & Absolute Jest
Doric String Quartet, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian
The RSNO’s playing captures all the delicacy, grandeur and zing of Adams’s complex score, while the Doric String Quartet brings sumptuous sweetness and laser-like clarity to its solo part…There... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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A Vision in A Dream - Concertos By Edward Gregson
Ross Knight (tuba), Edward Gregson (piano), Rachel Roberts (viola), Jennifer Galloway (oboe), BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon
This release focuses on three concertos that between them tellingly underline the evolution of his idiom throughout those intervening decades but are audibly and gratifyingly his music alone. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2025, Editor's Choice
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The music speaks so directly and involving that you're caught up in it from the start. …A Vision and a Journey lives up to its title impressively: taking Sibelius as an inspiration… was clearly... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Contemporary
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the RSNO under Peter Oundjian manage very effectively to project this single sweep of sound from beginning to end. Brass and percussion stand out for all the right reasons...but it's really... —
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Il Cannone - Francesca Dego plays Paganini's violin
Francesca Dego (violin), Francesca Leonardi (piano)
Dego has an expressive touch, skittering over the strings, yet finding plenty of attack in Szymanowski’s Trois Caprices. Corigliano’s Red Violin Caprices are at times spellbinding, descending... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2021
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