Harmonia Mundi
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Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des Animaux - l'Assassinat du Duc de Guise
RecommendedLes Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
One of his many virtues is that he’s not afraid of making his orchestra play very, very quietly; another is that, where a composer has not noted dynamics, Roth feels free to invent them, and... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th November 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2023, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2023, Editor's Choice
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
RecommendedDaniel Behle (Tamino), Marlis Petersen (Pamina), Daniel Schmutzhard (Papageno), Sunhae Im (Papagena), Anna-Kristiina Kaappola (Königin der Nacht), Marcos Fink (Sarastro), Kurt Azesberger (Monostatos)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
...this is a total experience, perfectly tailored for private listening. René Jacobs thinks of it as a Hörspiel: it's a play to be heard - I don't know a recorded Zauberflöte more thrillingly... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th September 2010
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Opera Choice
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Opera Award Winner
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Building a Library, November 2020, Recommended Recording
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Britten: Violin Concerto, Chamber Works
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Boris Faust (viola), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Jakub Hrůša
Faust’s cadenza has real emotional involvement, and builds urgently towards the final Passacaglia, where conductor Jakub Hrůša leads the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra to a full-toned climax,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th April 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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The Birth of Opera at the Medici Court
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Harmonia Mundi's production has all the sumptuousness of the original Medici spectacle...The performances are highly polished, chorus and ensemble, producing a glossy and liberally embellished... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted – Early Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera Recording (up to and including 17th/18th century)
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
RecommendedSimon Keenlyside (Count), Véronique Gens (Countess), Patrizia Ciofi (Susanna), Lorenzo Regazzo (Figaro), Angelika Kirchschlager (Cherubino), Marie McLaughlin (Marcellina)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Concerto Köln, René Jacobs
René Jacobs always brings new ideas to the operas he conducts, and even to a work as familiar as Figaro he adds something of his own. First of all he offers an orchestral balance quite unlike... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2004, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Opera
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Grammy Awards, 47th Awards (2004), Best Opera Recording
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Building A Library, April 2022, Recommended Recording
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Vivaldi, Leclair, Locatelli: Violin Concertos
RecommendedThéotime Langlois de Swarte (violin), Les Ombres
Les Ombres, under its co-founder and bass violist Margaux Blanchard, provide a lively and sympathetic rapport with the soloist —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Recording of the Month
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Across the whole cycle their intuitive rapport never falters and, feeding off each other, the sparks they generate meld the fragments into something greater than the sum of their parts...Kurtág... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th August 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrumental
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Locatelli: Il Virtuoso, Il Poeta
Violin Concertos & Concerti Grossi
Isabelle Faust (violin), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Faust brilliantly masters the high-wire acrobatics of Locatelli’s writing, which includes almost ear-piercingly high playing positions, extreme left-hand extensions, double stops and all manner... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year
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This disc serves to remind us how much marvellous music Beethoven wrote where there isn’t a scowl in sight…Throughout, Paul Lewis plays with the most natural, relaxed but concentrated enjoyment,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th July 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2020, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Ravel: Concertos pour piano & Mélodies
RecommendedCédric Tiberghien (piano), Stéphane Degout (baritone), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
By any standards, this is the A Team, and they do not disappoint. Here is Ravel in all his passion and technical wizardry...[Tiberghien] finds any number of colours amid his faultless technical... —
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Record Review, 21st May 2022, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Concerto
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