Chandos
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Bavouzet's strengths…to the fore, with glowing colours in the opening Ballade and Valse romantique, followed by sparkling elegance in the Danse. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2008
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Prokofiev: Complete Works for Violin
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin), with Amy Schwartz Moretti (violin), with Andrew Armstrong (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
I have not heard such a beautiful performance of the First Violin Concerto since Itzhak Perlman's 1982 EMI recording, and Ehnes enjoys the advantage of a more natural balance with the orchestra...Ehnes... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, January 2023, Recommended Recording - Violin Concerto No. 2
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When the glories of Haydn's late Masses have been widely appreciated, it's sad that Hummel's have been so neglected.
They are for chorus and orchestra alone, without soloists, which may have... —Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Finalist - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Choral
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Sparks From Ashes
RecommendedSongs by Dvořák, Kaprálová, Bartók and Křička
Nicky Spence (tenor), Dylan Perez (piano)
They plumb the emotions of youthful ardour from elation to despair with focused, idiomatic intensity. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th August 2025
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Special offer. MacDowell: Orchestral Works Vol. 2
Xiayin Wang (piano), Peter Dixon (cello)
BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson
Placed alongside the suite's brilliant parade (sparklingly delivered by Wilson's BBC forces), the concerto's virtuosic rhetoric suggests the ponderous throat clearing of some lumbering giant,... —
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett: Orchestral Works Vol. 4
Michael McHale (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, John Wilson
Part of the success of the concertos performance certainly lies in Michael McHale’s high-energy fingers, confidently shifting between glittering decorations and bravura solo spurts. Meanwhile,... —
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Brahms’s marking for the main portion of the opening movement of his First Symphony is a plain Allegro, but Edward Gardner takes it at an unusually swift tempo, keeping the drama buoyant and... —
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Davis's new performance takes off with 'Saturn': this may not match the sense of weariness Boult conveys, but its inexorable progress is highly effective, and the bells for once sound as if... —
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De Falla: El Sombrero de tres picos - Albeniz: Iberia Suite
RecommendedJill Gomez (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier
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Building A Library, July 2026, Top Choice - The Three-Cornered Hat
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The Film Music of Brian Easdale
Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot)
BBC National Chorus of Wales & BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Rumon Gamba
this excellent CD puts [Easdale] back where he belongs, in the top rank of film composers...The young voices of the BBC National Chorus of Wales add a vivid and dynamic dimension to both of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2011, Editor's Choice
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