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Piotr Beczala: The French Collection
RecommendedPiotr Beczala (tenor), Diana Damrau (soprano)
Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon, Alain Altinoglu
Crucially, his linguistic abilities are up to the challenge, and throughout the recital his French proves genuinely idiomatic. So does his appreciation of French style, with its important focus... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd February 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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All of the aspects that I so admired in previous albums are all present and correct here: the warmth of the strings, immensely characterful woodwind playing, and a blazing brass sound at the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th February 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Might this be the start of a complete Bruckner symphonies from the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Andris Nelsons? On the strength of this I very much hope so. The orchestra is still on with... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th May 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Orchestra of the Year
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The Disney Book
Lang Lang (piano), Sebastián Yatra (vocalist), Guo Gan (strings), Jon Batiste (vocalist, piano), Miloš Karadaglić (guitar), Gina Alice (vocalist), Andrea Bocelli (vocalist), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert Ziegler
What could so easily have turned into a hotel lobby-style piano amble in fact does a lot better than that. There’s a broad range of Disney from across the ages plus a nice variety of pace, and... —
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Visions of Prokofiev
RecommendedLisa Batiashvili (violin)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Nézet-Séguin cues a fine-spun accompaniment at the start and close of No. 1. Whereas he, the COR and Batiashvili collude for a carping attack at the centre of the Scherzo…She perfectly captures... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Concert Recording (20th/21st-century music)
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Yuja Wang (piano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
She makes us hear this hoariest of Romantic war-horses afresh, as if with cleaned ears: the work emerges as almost classical, Mozartian even, in its poise and architecture. There isn't an iota... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Mozart: Piano Quartets
RecommendedDaniel Barenboim (piano), Michael Barenboim (violin), Yiulia Deyneka (viola) & Kian Soltani (cello)
There is no question from the start of the guiding force here: Daniel Barenboim, a great Mozart player early in his career, and once more now, manages to hold things together while being free... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Chamber Choice
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Building a Library, June 2019, Also Recommended (Modern Recording)
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Haydn: Symphony No. 88 & Schumann: Symphony No. 4
RecommendedBerlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwangler
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Building a Library, February 2007, Historic Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Klaus Florian Vogt (Tamino), Christiane Karg (Pamina), Rolando Villazón (Papageno), Regula Mühlemann (Papagena), Franz-Josef Selig (Sarastro), Albina Shagimuratova (Königin der Nacht), Paul Schweinester (Monostatos)
RIAS Kammerchor, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Vogt shows no signs of lightening an oversized voice. In fact, it is impossible to guess that he isn’t a fresh young lyric tenor. By what vocal magic this was accomplished is beyond me, but... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year (Villazón)
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