Deutsche Grammophon
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Taken as a whole, it’s a painterly exercise in crafting contrasting moods and in shaping emotional immediacy...Muscular and mesmerising playing makes for a rewardingly satisfying listen. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year
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The four movements [of Glass's American Four Seasons] are interspersed with a prelude and three short 'songs' for solo violin, which bring further textural variety to the party, thrown with... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Paganini 1 & Wolf–Ferrari Violin Concertos
Francesca Dego (violin)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Daniele Rustioni
Dego’s fine-spun tonal purity and spotless intonational poise are exceptionally beguiling…Wolf-Ferrari’s melodic invention is not especially memorable, yet Dego’s seductive phrasing and infectious... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 'Organ Symphony', etc.
RecommendedSimon Preston (organ)
Berlin Philharmonic, James Levine
If having the organ and orchestra recorded separately does not bother you, allow yourself to be seduced by James Levine and Simon Preston's sensual and at times theatrical reading. —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Blechacz is a superlative pianist but an even finer musician, and this is playing of exceptional clarity and expressive beauty. Everything Blechacz does seems natural and organic, and his ability... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2007, Instrumental Choice
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Grammy Awards, 41st Awards (1998), Best Orchestral Performance
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Patricia Petibon: Melancolia
Spanish Arias and Songs
Patricia Petibon (soprano), with Susan Manoff, Joël Grare, with Daniel Manzanas
Orquesta nacional de España, Josep Pons
There's a pleasingly rich core to Petibon's voice besides the coloratura heights she's renowned for. She performs with total commitment and without fear and this injects everything she sings... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Editor's Choice
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Berg: Wozzeck
RecommendedFranz Grundheber (Wozzeck), Hildegard Behrens (Marie), Walter Raffeiner (Tambourmajor), Philip Langridge (Andres), Heinz Zednik (Hauptmann), Aage Haugland (Doktor), Anna Gonda (Margret), Peter Jelosits (Narr), Alfred Sramek (1.Handwerkbursch), Alexander Maly (2.Handwerkbursch)
Vienna Boys Choir,...
A live recording, in every sense of the word.
The cast is uniformly excellent, with Grundheber good both at the wretched pathos of Wozzeck's predicament and his helpless bitterness, and Behrens... —Awards:
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Building a Library, January 2015, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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