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Cherubini & Plantade: Requiems pour Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Niquet brings fresh artistry and specifically French authority honed over decades with Le Concert Spirituel to both works. For me, this is a prize-winning disc —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Choral
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An often feisty recital of operatically-influenced 17th and 18th century sacred music intercut with instrumental items by Dantone’s firebrand ensemble. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Recital
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Forbidden, yet seldom forbidding, Appl’s exquisitely cultivated fruits are ripe for plucking, and deserve to be consumed with unalloyed relish! —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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Perhaps the major discovery is the Violin Concerto by the exiled Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik...Quite simply, Kopatchinskaja lives and breathes every note, enabling her and the excellent... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2025, Recording of the Month
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Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5 ‘Spring’, 9 ‘Kreutzer’ & 3
Alena Baeva (violin), Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Tempos never linger, contributing to a mesmerically shaded reading: vernal this Spring may be but the listener is ever aware of the likelihood of a sudden storm that blows away as swiftly as... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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Antonini’s standing among the most vital of current Haydn conductors is as evident here in the hushed intensity he brings to the remote Adagio of the Farewell Symphony as it is in the driving... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Lines of Life: Schubert & Kurtág
RecommendedBenjamin Appl (baritone), György Kurtág (piano), James Baillieu (piano), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Csaba Bencze (trombone), Gergely Lukác (tuba)
Appl’s ever-expressive baritone is inf initely characterful here in these diverse settings. He is a thoughtful, revealing interpreter of Kurtág’s verse, and his own admission that he finds one... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Vocal
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As she navigates through this widely varied repertoire, she reveals her virtues clearly...if you're interested in a preview of the next pianistic generation, you'll want to hear this release. —
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New. Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 25 & 26
Alim Beisembayev (piano), Orf Radio Symphonieorchester Wien, Howard Griffiths
this album is a tantalising glimpse of what wonders Beisembayev may yet discover in Mozart's inexhaustible genius. —
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The knowledge that Grisey himself died unexpectedly himself died unexpectedly at only 52 shortly before the work’s premiere only heightens the impact of this mesmeric recording. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2020
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2020, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Juno Awards, 2021, Nominated - Classical Album of the Year (Vocal or Choral)
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