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Brahms: String Sextets
RecommendedBelcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
The two works have attracted numerous fine recordings, but here a luxury cast of the Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras bring us a really special one – full-toned, warm-hearted... —
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Record Review, 12th March 2022, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Chamber
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Gramophone Awards, 2022 Finalists
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber
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Whole worlds are packed into each of the 19 songs on this unmissable debut recital from Grigorian. The Lithuanian’s soprano has a steely glint and powerful intensity, but nor does she stint... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Song
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Vocal Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Female Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Vocal
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Offenbach Colorature
RecommendedJodie Devos (soprano)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Laurent Campellone
This is a marriage made in musical heaven with the young Dutch soprano Jodie Devos reminding us just how gifted Jacques Offenbach was as a composer…She’s a gravity-defying coloratura soprano... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Recital
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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This is utterly adorable from start to finish…In the booklet Piau speaks of her joy at performing this kind of repertoire and her rapture is palpable from the breathless opening moments of Saint-Saens’s... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2019
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Recital
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Abduraimov serves up one of the noblest and most intelligently shaped Dante Sonatas in the catalogue... You hear long lines and narrative paragraphs instead of pounded-out octaves in an Olympic... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th May 2026
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2026, Editor's Choice
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Gens, as one might expect, is exceptional in this repertoire. Most of the songs are about erotic anticipation and tristesse, and her dark, slightly smoky tone adds to the sensuality of it all.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th November 2015
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Camerata Bern accompanies the violinist on this latest foray into the meaning of life, the universe and everything. —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2019, Concerto Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Chamber
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New. Schubert/Liszt: Wanderer Fantasy - Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasy
Lukas Geniušas (piano), Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, Modestas Pitrėnas
Until I heard Lukas Geniušas's recording of the Tchaikovsky Concert Fantasy I'd no idea what an enjoyable piece it could be. In this performance the themes sparkle with life, and Tchaikovsky's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Schoenberg & Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
What makes this performance especially persuasive is Järvi’s ability to control the constantly fluctuating tempo changes in Schoenberg’s score without losing sight of the music’s structural... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2024, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Crazy Girl Crazy: Music by Gershwin, Berg and Berio
Recommendedincluding bonus documentary DVD
Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor)
Ludwig Orchestra
Crazy Girl Crazy is an album that – just like its muse and protagonist – flouts the rules…The litheness of Hannigan’s voice beguiles, so that the near-segue into the Lulu Suite (1934) comes... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd September 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, Recording of the month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Recording - voice (Oratorio/Concert/Lied)
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