Linn
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Fliter differs from most by devising a running order full of intriguing juxtapositions, as did Earl Wild. Such programming savvy makes sense if you plan on listening to all of the Nocturnes... —
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Special offer. Thomas Wilson: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Rory Macdonald
The two symphonies here, completing Linn’s recorded survey (missing only the suppressed No. 1), may have stylistic differences, but both are notably taut affairs, propelled by motivic cells... —
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Under the baton of their assistant conductor, Kellen Gray, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra skilfully buckle down to their task. —
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Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony receives here a performance of one’s dreams. Using a slightly reduced body of strings, Thomas Søndergård elicits from the Royal Scottish National orchestra neatly... —
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These are very fine singers without doubt (the famous Cantate Domino is pleasingly warm and festive); and yet one senses a reluctance to venture out of their comfort zone and inhabit the unsettling... —
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Special offer. Sir Charles Mackerras Conducts Mozart
Susan Gritton (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Timothy Robinson, Peter Rose (bass), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus, Sir Charles Mackerras
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Special offer. Mozart's Bassoon
Works for Solo Bassoon
Peter Whelan (bassoon), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Ensemble Marsyas
This genial and amiable disc is a joy to listen to. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2022
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)
RecommendedDunedin Consort, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, John Butt
[Butt’s] flexible approach to the vexed question of the proportional speeds between duple and triple sections produces some surprisingly languid effects…but a dance-like vitality elsewhere…using... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Special offer. Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
Harrison Birtwistle (The Soldier), George Benjamin (The Devil), Dame Harriet Walter (narrator)
Royal Academy of Music, Oliver Knussen
It’s recorded in a way to convey to the maximum both the poetic detail and the expert pacing of Knussen’s finely-pointed reading, and to give full rein to Dame Harriet’s wonderfully free-spirited... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Special offer. Scottish Chamber Orchestra: 40th Anniversary Edition
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Robin Ticciati, Joseph Swensen, Sir Charles Mackerras
The orchestra shows itself brilliantly adapted to any style and conductor — provided, anyway, they have more than a smack of genius. —
