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Delibes: Coppelia & Massenet: Le Carillon
RecommendedSuisse Romande Orchestra and National Philharmonic, Richard Bonynge
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Benjamin Grosvenor plays Rhapsody in Blue
RecommendedBenjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd
reservations pale into Beckmesserish scratchings besides the delights of this disc and especially of Grosvenor's pianism. I can only concur with other critics who hear in his tone and phrasing... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th August 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2012, Editor's Choice
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Aleksandra Kurzak: Gioia!
RecommendedAleksandra Kurzak (soprano), Francesco Demuro (tenor)
Orchestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Omer Meir Wellber
Kurzak impresses as a coloratura soprano of the old school —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th February 2012
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Opera, April 2012, Recording of the Month
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Stravinsky: Chant Funèbre & Le Sacre du printemps
RecommendedLucerne Festival Orchestra, Sophie Koch (mezzo), Riccardo Chailly
Chailly draws out the colours vividly with his Lucerne orchestra, silky strings and rounded woodwind voices to the fore. The Funeral Song is more than a curiosity…It’s a very good performance... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th January 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Building a Library, June 2014, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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JS Bach: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJanine Jansen (violin), with Ramón Ortega Quero (oboe), with Jan Jansen (harpsichord)
Jansens's approach is clearly influenced by the period instrument movement but by no means slavishly so...Sometimes there's a touch of creative tension between the historically-aware Jansen... —
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Building a Library, November 2019, Also Recommended
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Arie Napoletane: Max Emanuel Cencic
Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor)
Il Pomo D'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Cencic negotiates this complex emotional parabola wonderfully well. This is a great voice, dark in tone, beguiling in its liquidity and finely equalised. His coloratura flows with great ease...though... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Recital
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Alisa Weilerstein: Chopin & Rachmaninov
RecommendedAlisa Weilerstein (cello) & Inon Barnatan (piano)
The glorious ebb and flow of melodic material that courses through the veins of the Rachmaninov and Chopin Sonatas seems absolutely tailor-made for a cellist with the flamboyance and intensity... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Stile Antico has much experience in this early repertoire and their performances are accomplished…this is a splendid introduction to one of our earliest identifiable musical geniuses. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Early Music
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Opera Proibita
includes arias from Handel, A Scarlatti & Caldara
Cecilia Bartoli
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Bartoli is on marvellous form in these arias - a truly wonderful disc —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2005, Disc of the Month
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