Chandos
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The Neave’s way with [the Smyth] is expansive, with an attractive warmth of tone in the interlocking string phrases of the outer movements and playing at once weighty and admirably restrained... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Michael Tippett: A Child of Our Time
RecommendedPumeza Matshikiza (soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Joshua Stewart (tenor), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis
Bass Ashley Riches shines particularly as the narrator, bringing a terrif ic clarity and command to the role. The BBC Symphony Orchestra give a fine performance, but the real star of the show... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd May 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Choral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Sibelius: In the Stream of Life
RecommendedSongs by Sibelius
Gerald Finley (bass-baritone)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
a highly memorable disc. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th December 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Richard Strauss: Salome
Malin Byström (Salome), Johan Reuter (Jochanaan), Katarina Dalayman (Herodias), Gerhard Siegel (Herodes), Bror Magnus Tødenes (Narraboth), Hanna Hipp (Herodias's Page)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Strauss’s score remains one of the most astounding of all time, operatic and otherwise, and it’s a high achievement indeed that the Bergen Philharmonic’s playing under Edward Gardner, stunningly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2025, Recording of the Month
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International Opera Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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Busoni: Toccata, BV 287, Elegien, BV 252, Sonatina No. 6, BV 284 & Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BV B 29 No. 1
RecommendedPeter Donohoe (piano)
if some of the works here make uncomfortable listening – despite Donohoe’s keyboard brilliance – that is because Busoni himself disdained aural comfort...But the Toccata BV 29, being a transcription... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th August 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Colli’s colouring of the music is imaginative, and he is often persuasive in his cantabile playing…Yet too often elsewhere his gestures seem exaggerated…In short, notwithstanding some splendid... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th May 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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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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Mozart: Piano Concertos, Volume 4
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy
This is altogether a really fine performance…Bavouzet uses the ubiquitous Beethoven cadenzas for K466, while for its C major companion-piece K467 he opts for the examples by Friedrich Gulda,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Concerto
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Gardner and the BBC Symphony, backed up by glittering sound, do [the Symphonic Variations] proud, from the folk-like opening flute theme, through its varied treatments...Lortie is an ideal soloist... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2012, 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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