Chandos
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John Wilson’s expertise in this repertoire secures crisp, mint-condition performances whenever the music allows. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2022
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Her Voice: Piano Trios by Amy Beach, Louise Farrenc and Rebecca Clarke
RecommendedPiano Trios
Neave Trio
Collectors may prefer all-Beach or all-Farrenc couplings but the Neave’s programme makes a splendid introduction to these three pioneering female composers. —
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
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Bavouzet's new readings on a bright-toned Yamaha concert grand are unfailingly crisp and vivacious, if with idiosyncrasies...his rapport with Gabor Takacs-Nagy and the sensitised strings of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, Editor's Choice
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Music like this, often rampagingly orchestrated, needs performances of matching gusto. The symphonies’ pioneer German recordings, now almost 20 years old, had plenty of spirit, but the superior... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Denève still summons a sensuous bloom in the Prélude, and thanks to his influence, the RSNO proves better than the French at their own game: these are among the most seductive Debussy performances... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Editor's Choice
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Florent Schmitt: Suites from 'Antoine et Cléopâtre' & Symphony No. 2
RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
The sultry, mysterious textures…are evocatively conjured by Oramo and the BBC Symphony players. Feverish, bacchanalian energies are unleashed in ‘Orgie et Danses’…[in the Symphony] Oramo does... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th March 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Tchaikovsky & Khachaturian: Piano Concertos
RecommendedXiayin Wang (piano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian
From the first bar, you know that this brilliant Chinese-American pianist is the business...she leads from the front throughout to exhilarating effect...If you do not have a recording of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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From the wonderful lyrical springboard opening right through to the final slow fade there’s a singing line that rises, falls and snakes its way through everything…The Serenade for Strings here... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and François-Frédéric Guy get every subtle detail in place. —
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Editor's Choice
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This irresistible collection of marches, waltzes and galops has quickly established itself as Office Pick-Me-Up of the Month; Jarvi describes this music in his booklet-note as 'the American... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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