Decca
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Karl Jenkins: Symphonic Adiemus
Ruth Rosales (contra bassoon), Gareth McLearnon (piccolo), Jon Carnac (clarinet), Duncan Ashby (clarinet), David Fuest (bass clarinet), Jenny Brittlebank (oboe), Janey Miller (oboe), Ilid Jones (cor anglais), Julie Andrews (bassoon), Richard Skinner (bassoon), Joseph Walters (french horn), John Thurgood...
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Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos
RecommendedKyung Wha Chung (violin)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Dutoit, Rudolf Kempe
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Letters From Paris
Alexandra Whittingham (guitar), Carducci Quartet (stringquartet, string quartet), Thea Sayer (doublebass), Matthew Denton (violin), Michelle Fleming (violin), Eoin Schmidt-Martin (viola), Emma Denton (cello), Margarita Balanas (cello), Stephanie Jones (guitar), Jess Gillam (sopranosaxophone)
This colourful box of sweets by Alexandra Whittingham is a guitar album of characterful, small pieces interspersed with pretty collaborations, lifting the spirits and presenting some unashamed... —
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Perhaps not the most multi-faceted Chopin playing , with too much emphasis on approaching the composer back through a Romantic lens rather than forward through a Classical one, but a characteristically... —
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Radu Lupu: The Unreleased Recordings
Decca Masters and Radio Tapes 1970-2002
Radu Lupu (piano), Tel Aviv String Quartet, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Kazimierz Kord
The very qualities that limited his discography - doubt, self-criticism, an acute fear of exposure - are precisely those that give these recordings their emotional charge. Heard now, they do... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Archive Issue of the Month
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The Tchaikovsky Project
Complete Symphonies & Piano Concertos, Orchestral Works
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov
Bychkov always seems to know where to place the emphasis in emotional climaxes…[Gerstein] shares Bychkov’s balance of big guns and mercurial delicacy…The sound is a beauty, relishing that bloom... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Best Collection
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
RecommendedLucia Popp (Susanna), Kiri Te Kanawa (Countess), Frederica von Stade (Cherubino), Samuel Ramey (Figaro), Thomas Allen (Count)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
Kiri te Kanawa sings the Countess's aria with meltingly beautiful tone...The discreet flirtation with Cherubino...is done with some feeling...Thomas Allen is quite simply superb as the Count. —
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Grammy Awards, 26th Awards (1983), Best Opera Recording
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Vinci, Leonardo: Catone in Utica
RecommendedMax Emanuel Cencic (Arbace), Franco Fagioli (Cesare), Valer Sabadus (Marzia), Martin Mitterutzner (Fulvio), Vince Yi (Emilia), Juan Sancho (Catone)
Il Pomo D'oro, Riccardo Minasi
Director Riccardo Minaso heats up [the] sense of rivalry - the variations get wilder, the yearning more palpable. All three countertenors are virtuosos, but Fagioli takes the laurels…the band... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th May 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Opera, August 2015, Recording of the Month
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Rossini: Matilde di Shabran
RecommendedAnnick Massis (Matilde), Juan Diego Florez (Corradino Cuor di Ferro), Bruno Taddia (Raimondo Lopez), Hadar Halevy (Edoardo), Marco Vinco (Aliprando), Bruno de Simone (Isidoro), Chiara Chialli (Contessa d'Arco), Carlo Lepore (Ginardo), Gregory Bonfatti (Egoldo), Lubomir Moravec (Rodrigo)
Orquesta...
Here is treasure indeed: a memorable recording of Rossini's grand, exhilarating, yet down the years too-little-noticed Matilde di Shabran. A comic-heroic romp written for the 1821 Roman carnival... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2006, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Opera
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Three Tenors - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti in Concert (1990)
RecommendedJosé Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta
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Grammy Awards, 33rd Awards (1990), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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