Hyperion
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The wealth of virtues in Coote's recital include her intuitive sense of apposite, well-proportioned ornamentation and a sure feeling for just tempo...Occasionally I found her vibrato and vocal... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Opera, November 2014, Recording of the Month
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one to treasure both for the sensitive and well-sustained singing of Christopher Purves and for the wonderfully wide expressive range of Handel's music...Purves has an acute ear, serving well... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Vocal Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Vocal
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Opera, May 2013, Recording of the Month
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…Outstanding Rachmaninov playing of acute perception, discretion and poetic sensibility, limpid, powerful and luminous in equal measure. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th April 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2009, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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These are unusually expansive works, their first movements each close on 15 minutes' music, prolific in their thematic matter and richly developed. They demand playing that shows a grasp of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2003, Editor's Choice
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The Romantic Violin Concerto 2 - Stanford
Anthony Marwood (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
This is a discovery of major importance. Hubert Parry (no mean critic) regarded Stanford's Violin Concerto as one of his finest works, yet it has been played rarely, if at all, since his death... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2001, Disc of the Month
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Notwithstanding the essential simplicity of their form, Smetana imbues [the Czech Dances] with considerable sophistication. The first has a musing, reflective quality captured beautifully by... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Intimate and poetic, this pianism which delicately suggests rather than making statements. A lovely hour and a quarter. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Not only are there plenty of lively dances on here to counter the cliché of the ‘wispy’ Debussy, but the contrasts between tracks and the clarity at any dynamic level – and of course Osborne... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Editor's Choice
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Any monotony in repeats is avoided by Gugnin’s hypersensitive touch...A well-placed collection of multifacted jewels. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Piano
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Well, the Florestan Trio have done it again – a sure-fire Gramophone Award nominee. Indeed, such is the cumulative emotional impact of these performances that tears welled up during the wonderful... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2006, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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