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The music is in competent hands. Pawlik is a fine pianist with a comprehensive technique... Excellent recorded sound. —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Copland: Billy The Kid & Grohg
RecommendedDetroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
Copland’s deeply unsettling, Rite of Spring-like Grohg is a real discovery. The much more familiar Billy the Kid, meanwhile, is played with terrific swagger by Slatkin’s Detroit forces. —
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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Special offer. Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony
RecommendedORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fagen
The performance perhaps feels a little staid in places (I’d love to hear what CHINEKE! might do with this score), but the energy and imagination with which Dawson treats material from traditional... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Godard - Violin Concertos
RecommendedChloe Hanslip (violin)
Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Košice, Kirk Trevor
Acceptable background listening, but not really much more. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th August 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2008, Editor's Choice
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Everything's very well done here: the first movement unforced in its melodic flow, the Adagio calm, and clear in the outer sections and powerful in the middle, the Scherzo lively and the trio... —
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Building a Library, October 2007, Budget Choice
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The Kodaly's fine reading. —
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Enescu's 1920 First Quartet crams so much into 45-odd minutes that even two or three hearings barely scratch its surface. It's a veritable forest of invention, fairly Brahmsian in texture, organic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2002, Editor's Choice
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Verdi: Rigoletto
RecommendedRobert Merrill (Rigoletto), Roberta Peters (Gilda), Jussi Björling (Il Duca), Anna Maria Rota (Maddalena), Giorgio Tozzi (Sparafucile)
Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Jonel Perlea
[On the original release in 1956] under Perlea, the orchestral playing is firm and dramatic, well balanced with the voice. The music is well paced. Björling’s tone is a constant pleasure. He... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Derek Bermel: Migrations
RecommendedMigration Series, Mar de Setembro, A Shout, a Whisper, and a Trace
Derek Bermel (clarinet), Ted Nash, Luciana Souza (mezzo-soprano), Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller
I liked the first work on this disc quite a bit, but each one more than its predecessor such that by the final work, I was convinced I was hearing the music of a true master of composition. —
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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