LPO
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Tippett: Piano Concerto & Symphony No. 2
RecommendedSteven Osborne (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
this completely symbiotic live account with Edward Gardner’s LPO has both repose and electricity to surpass all others...More, much more please – an indispensable disc! —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th December 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Concerto
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Vladimir Jurowski conducts Zemlinsky
RecommendedHeike Wessels (mezzo soprano), Sergey Skorokhodov (tenor) & Albert Dohmen (baritone), Petra Lang (mezzo soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Jurowski demonstrates a masterly control of dramatic pace, ratcheting up the tension slowly but surely so that the final denouement reaches a devastating climax. The LPO proves superbly responsive... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd June 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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New. Edward Gardner Conducts Strauss: An Alpine Symphony - Metamorphosen
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
[The Summit] is majestically judged by Gardner and the LPO, before descending into the storm's maelstrom and a rushed descent back into night. The sound quality, here as in the subsequent Metamorphosen,... —
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Edward Gardner conducts Britten
RecommendedNicky Spence (tenor), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Rarely since Britten’s own classic Decca recording have I heard a performance of the Sinfonia da Requiem bristling with such visceral energy and structural inevitably as this new account from... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th May 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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They offer a visceral, exhilarating insight into his brilliant musical imagination. Volatility is the watchword: from subtle delicacy to hedonistic excess; tender entwining to ironic parody... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2025, Orchestral Choice
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto & Lalo: Symphonie espagnole
Augustin Hadelich (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko, Omer Meir Wellber
Hadelich’s rich tone pays dividends in an arresting, heartfelt Tchaikovsky. The rather slighter Lalo is nevertheless given a seductive and graceful performance. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Concerto
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infectious, bracing and idealistic by turns, the results are both lively and heartfelt. —
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BBC Music Magazine, Orchestral Choice
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Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage
RecommendedRobert Murray (Mark), Rachel Nicholls (Jenifer), Ashley Riches (King Fisher), Jennifer France (Bella), Toby Spence (Jack), Claire Barnett-Jones (Sosostris), Susan Bickley (She-Ancient), Joshua Bloom (He-Ancient), London Philharmonic Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Unexpectedly, it’s the second pair of lovers, Bella and Jack, admirably sung by Jennifer France and Toby Spence, who capture your ear...It’s the villain who almost steals the show. Ashley Riches... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Opera
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Júlia Várady, Jane Eaglen, Susan Bullock (sopranos), Trudeliese Schmidt, Jadwiga Rappé (mezzo soprano), Kenneth Riegel (tenor), Eike Wilm Schulte (baritone) & Hans Sotin (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, London Symphony Chorus & Eton College Boys’ Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
Even in the hour-long second movement, Tennstedt sustains such a high level of concentration and intensity that the attention is riveted throughout, culminating in a ecstatic peroration that... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, Editor's Choice
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its character and its superb sound, both detailed and well-balanced, are as impressive and involving as ever...the music [is] not only well within the players' grasp but played with polish and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2010, Editor's Choice
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