Orchid Classics - up to 25% off selected titles
Until 2nd September, we are offering up to 25% off selected Orchid Classics titles on CD, Vinyl, & Downloads.
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Special offer. Arion: Voyage of A Slavic Soul
RecommendedNatalya Romaniw (soprano), Lada Valešová (piano)
Make no mistake, Romaniw is a great talent. The plush richness of her soprano is astonishing...Romaniw taps into the melancholy of the Russian songs especially well…The selection from Janáček’s... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Editor's Choice
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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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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Song
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Special offer. Rose in Bloom
RecommendedErin Morley (soprano), Gerald Martin Moore (piano), Ransom Wilson (flute)
At the heart of the album is the cycle Huit Chansons de Fleurs, by Ricky Ian Gordon. He’s no slouch when it comes to picturing words in his music – so we have drunken bees teetering along the... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024, Shortlisted - Debut Solo Album
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The performances are generally fine; one must single out Pernille Petersen’s recorder, which she can make sound like everything from a clarinet to a piccolo. She is sensationally virtuosic in... —
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It’s hard not to be won over by this selection drawing together encore pieces arranged for cello and piano. It’s a beguiling programme, many familiar, others less-known, and all performed with... —
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Best of all is their selection of six of Shostakovich’s piano preludes: these could have been written for bassoon, so perfectly does the instrument lend itself to the quickfire vamping and staccato... —
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Wiggin is fast emerging as one of the UK’s star saxophonists. He brings a keen musical intelligence and a remarkably beautiful sound to these performances, ably accompanied by John Lenehan (piano)... —
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Who'd have thought you could have just so much fun with a violin, accordion and double bass (and, briefly, voice)?...Moods and nationalities aplenty, all played with pizzazz and joy. —
