Hyperion
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This endlessly fascinating collection is played with style and incredible subtlety...I don't recall ever giving a recording the full ten stars. But then, I hadn't heard Hamelin play his own... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd February 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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The sequence works well as a recital-like experience, and also as a vehicle for Hough’s comprehensive mastery of his art...The idiom of his own ‘Vida breve’ Sonata, with its cogent sweep and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Hough: Piano Concerto, Sonatina & Partita
RecommendedSir Stephen Hough (piano), The Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
a sophisticated, entertaining Piano Concerto that avoids pastiche yet cleverly evokes lost musical words. […] It all leads to an exhilarating finale, a tarantella appassionata which sends the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th March 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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David Briggs - Mass for Notre Dame
RecommendedDavid Briggs (organ)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
Briggs [draws] sounds of roaring, surging eloquence and grandeur from the splendid instrument at Gloucester Cathedral. It helps, too, that the Trinity College Choir have such a 'live', untrammelled... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2010, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Award for Technical Excellence
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Trinity’s mixed young adults are effortless in the ease with which they respond to Layton’s exacting demands. The ground is hit running with a Magnificat whose iterations of the word ‘magnify’... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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most of the time Hamelin inhabits the spirit of the music, which has more variety than you might expect: there’s not a dud among the 27 tracks…A clear picture of an essential chapter in American... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th June 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Piano
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Hamelin's original etudes...with their blend of tasteful lyricism and striking textures and harmonies, are as enjoyable as his homages...While brashly flaunting his influences (Gershwin, Poulenc,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Disc of the Month
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2008
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Combining Tallis and Gesualdo with modern/contemporary composers such as Sarah Rimkus, Gerda Blok-Wilson and the late Veljo Tormis can be tricky for an ensemble, but the Gesualdo Six and Owain... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Lieux retrouvés
RecommendedMusic for cello & piano
Steven Isserlis (cello), with Thomas Adès (piano)
Match [Ades's playing] with the mellow sound and manner of Steven Isserlis's cello, and you have something very special. Their choice of repertory here - devised as an extended upbeat to Ades's... —
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Building a Library, January 2013, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Disc of the Month
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One feature of his music is its wide range of historical reference…clothed in Park’s own musical language, which is contemporary in orientation but with resonant harmony which falls easily on... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Choral
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