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Beethoven: Missa solemnis
Chen Reiss (soprano), Varduhi Abrahamyan (mezzo), Daniel Behle (tenor), Tareq Nazmi (bass)
Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Audi Jugendchorakademie, Jérémie Rhorer
It is Jérémie Rhorer’s uncompromising eloquence which bespeaks faith in the sublime greatness of this work, imparting its mysteries to the listener in ways that are as personally touching as... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2025, Choral & Song Choice
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The Christmas Album
RecommendedBenjamin Appl (soloist), Christian Heiss, Johannes Berger, Hans Berger, Ilias Grau (soloist), Edeltraud Appl, Regensburger Domspatzen, Munich Radio Orchestra, Florian Helgath
It turns out that Appl’s contribution to the season of goodwill is as thoughtfully assembled as one of his Lieder programmes, and performed with the same level of care. The Regensburg boys are... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th November 2024
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Du Bellay: Heureux qui, comme Ulysse
Doulce Mémoire (early music ensemble), Kwal, Denis Raisin Dadre
Settings of Joachim Du Bellay’s poetry, interspersed with recitations by the ‘slam’ poet Kwal and accompanied by instrumental improvisations, make for an atmospheric and immersive experience. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Early Music
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The sheer quality and naturalness of their music-making is deliciously demonstrated in the development section of the opening movement of the First Quintet of 1872…The main act here is the Second... —
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Ferrum Splendidum
RecommendedFlorian Sempey (baritone), Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, Victor Jacob
In the booklet notes Sempey mentions the dedication and hard work that he has put in to expand the range of what he could do beyond Rossini, and the evidence of that here is ample. As soon as... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th November 2024
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Niquet’s fluid lines heighten the drama by drawing out crucial words in long, upswelling crescendos, punctuated at climaxes by pungent brass and woodwinds...His performers apply dynamics with... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 17
Eric Le Sage (piano), Gävle Symphony Orchestra, François Leleux
You can tell much about an interpretation from the opening bars of K491. There’s a polish to the legato strings, the wind answering in kind, and Le Sage’s entry is sensitive and beautifully... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Marais: Ariane et Bacchus
Véronique Gens, David Tricou, Philippe Estèphe, Hélène Carpentier, Marie Perbost, David Witczak, Tomislav Lavoie, Judith van Wanroij, Mathias Vidal, David Witczak, Le Concert Spirituel, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Hervé Niquet
Niquet conducts Le Concert Spirituel with characteristic vigour in a historically informed performance shorn of instrumental ‘ trinkets’. The spacious acoustics of the Jean-Baptiste Lully Conservatoire... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Salonen / Ravel
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk
What Nicolas Altstaedt and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Dima Slobodeniouk draw from Esa-Pekka Salonen's multi-layered Cello Concerto is fascinating – an exciting expedition into... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Assorted Programs
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