Ondine - up to 30% off
Until 26th August, we are offering up to 30% off Ondine titles on CD, SACD, DVD, & Downloads.
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Special offer. Lutosławski: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
RecommendedFinnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
This magnificent new recording completes a strong symphonic portrait of the Polish modernist master…The Third Symphony comes first here in a coruscating performance. Hannu Lintu conducts with... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, Orchestral Choice
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2020, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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Special offer. Elliott Carter: Late Works
RecommendedPierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Colin Currie (percussion), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Oliver Knussen
brimming with youthful energy and Haydnesque, impish wit...Aimard brings fluent delicacy to the concertos and the orchestral soundings. He is matched in filigree precision by co-protagonists,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Jury Award - Premiere
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Orchestral
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Special offer. Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra, Partita for Violin and Orchestra & Novelette
RecommendedChristian Tetzlaff (violin), Jouko Laivuori, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
This compelling release from conductor Nicholas Collon and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra makes clear the evolutionary exuberance of Lutosławski’s creative development. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2024, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Special offer. Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Violin Concerto, Photoptosis, Die Soldaten Vocal Symphony
RecommendedLeila Josefowicz (violin), Anu Komsi (soprano), Jeni Packalen (soprano), Hilary Summers (contralto), Peter Tantsits (tenor), Ville Rusanen (baritone), Juha Uusitalo (bass)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
In Zimmermann’s Violin Concerto…beauty is to the fore ina performance from Lelia Josefowicz that is more elasticated and lyrical (than, say, Thomas Zehetmair) while the Finnish Radio Symphony... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Special offer. Rodion Shchedrin: Music From the Lady With the Lapdog
Olli Mustonen (piano), Lawrence Power (viola), Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
All in all, an invaluable release and a wonderful tribute to the composer who passed away last year at the grand old age of 92. —
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you can’t but be stunned by the fearless skill of Sigvards Klava’s choir as they navigate the most jagged, fragmented notes and pitches – the musical equivalent of climbing Mount Everest just... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Choral Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Choral
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Special offer. Lutosławski: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4; Jeux vénitiens
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Three key works, each from an essential point in Witold Lutosławski’s career, add up to a thrilling portrait of the modern Polish master. All are played with searing energy by the Finnish Radio... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Orchestral
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Special offer. Ligeti: Violin Concerto, Lontano, Atmosphères & San Francisco Polyphony
Benjamin Schmid (violin)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
As [Lintu] prises open Ligeti's mulched-up woodwind micropolyphony...time feels curiously suspended, the high-speed urgency of the music hurtling forwards slowly and unobtrusively...Ligeti's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2014, Editor's Choice
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It’s every bit as exciting as the first volume...[No. 4] opens with a pungent fanfare, its colours stemming from jazz-band instrumentation and the absence of orchestral violins. Stephen Waarts... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Concerto Choice
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Special offer. Berio: Sinfonia & Calmo
Virpi Räisänen (mezzo-soprano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Any singer must exorcise the ghost of Cathy Berberian in this and other vocal works of Berio and...Virpi Räisänen has the measure of it...In Hannu Lintu's marvellous new recording I hear and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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