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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Choral Finalist
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2007, Editor's Choice
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Coming soon. Mozart: Don Giovanni
Andrè Schuen (Don Giovanni), Luca Pisaroni (Leporello), Miah Persson (Donna Elvira), Maria Bengtsson (Donna Anna), Bernard Richter (Don Ottavio), Samantha Gaul (Zerlina), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
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Solomon coaxes lively performances out of the members of Florilegium, with the depictions of rain, lightning and thunder conjured up by Haydn in the concluding storm movement of ‘Le Soir’ sounding... —
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Special offer. Tides of Life
RecommendedArrangements for string ensemble and baritone by David Matthews
Candida Thompson (violin) & Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Netherlands Female Youth Choir
In his orchestrations Matthews makes inspired and sensitive use of string colour and intimate solos…and in Schubert's Ständchen for vocal ensemble, the demure-sounding girls' choir, supported... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th February 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5
RecommendedBudapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
Of the two performances, the Fifth Symphony is particularly successful, Its first movement, taken at a real lick, has a tremendous atmosphere of excitement and coiled tension…There’s much to... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Special offer. Mozart - Complete Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin, Volumes 7 & 8
Gary Cooper (piano) & Rachel Podger (violin), with Alison McGillivray (cello)
Cooper and Podger perform the variations with typical verve… it’s impossible to ignore the individuality, vitality and commitment of their performances. —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2009, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' & Coriolan Overture
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
this is generally a fine and well-recorded performance, with a welcome degree of expressive flexibility in such moments as the opening movement’s gentle second subject. —
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The modern Steinway grand seems a bit of a blunt instrument to convey the full range of Bach's individuality, but Lazic's fastidiously articulated fingerwork and his feel for CPE's cultivated... —
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Special offer. Essentia
Works for Viola & Orchestra
Dana Zemtsov (viola)
National Estonian Orchestra, Daniel Raiskin
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Special offer. Paganini and Rolla: Chamber Music For Strings and Bassoon
Andrea Bressan, Gabrielle Shek, Dana Zemtsov, Pau Codina, Giovanni Guzzo
It’s an intriguing selection, and here it’s been beautifully brought off…It perhaps sounds – unintentionally – like a back-handed compliment, but I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed a bassoon chamber... —
