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Special offer. Mozart - Symphonies Nos. 38 - 41
RecommendedScottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
Mackerras doesn't short-change us on the tenderness and often painful lyricism… nor is he afraid to relax the tempo as a festive or belligerent motif gives way to a gentler one, with the strings…... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2008, Orchestral Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Disc of the Year & Orchestral Award Winner
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Building a Library, February 2020, Also Recommended
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With his resplendent mezzo-soprano-ish tone quality and ease of vocal production, the much-awarded Hugh Cutting represents a new level in the evolution of the countertenor voice in this debut... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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The quartet sound itself combines a lovely rich sonority with a tremendous span of weight, timbre and attack...Beautiful stuff, while also being something you can get your intellectual teeth... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Special offer. Mozart - Symphonies Nos. 29, 31, 32, 35 & 36
RecommendedScottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
Clarity prevails, and animation. These are the kind of performances that make it difficult for the listener to sit still. One is impelled to pace or even dance around, to gesture and nod...when... —
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Orchestral
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Building a Library, October 2022, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 25 & 26
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi (piano)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Piemontesi’s playing is mostly magnificent, with crystalline clarity, radiant tone and eloquent phrasing. In the fine and intriguing cadenzas, he shines with surety of purpose —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th August 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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Special offer. The Trials of Tenducci: A Castrato in Ireland
RecommendedTara Erraught (mezzo-soprano), Irish Baroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan
[The Mozart] is given a very capable performance by mezzo Tara Erraught, whose attractive tone and warmth are heard to particular advantage in the second aria (‘Tu virginum’)...she copes well... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Special offer. Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 31, 70 & 101
RecommendedScottish Chamber Orchestra, Robin Ticciati
The performances, though on modern instruments, pay attention to matters of period style - every repeat observed, careful balance between parts…the SCO is everywhere on wonderfully characterful... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th September 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Dipping in and out of the minor mode, but mostly dwelling in the sunlit major, these beautifully turned works pass a very pleasant hour, even if they lack the explorative and emotional qualities... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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One wouldn’t normally expect late-18th-century aristocratic entertainment music to survive the test of time, but this really does speak across the ages…The horn writing is especially ear-catching:... —
