Chandos
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Special offer. A Festival of Fučík
David Hubbard (bassoon)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Järvi and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra deliver this excellently recorded anthology with great enthusiasm, throwing themselves into these brightly coloured scores without a hint of condescension... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, Editor's Choice
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…Tsar's Bride… thrills with the riding rhythms of Ivan's rapacious followers, the oprichniki; Sinaisky takes it at a spacious but still exciting pace. The gentler but richly-hued aspects of... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Orchestral Choice
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[Le Beau's Piano Quartet] provides ample evidence of her gifts, demonstrating both a skilful handling of the medium and some instantly memorable ideas…I need hardly add that the Kaleidoscope... — More…
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Special offer. The Italian Intermezzo: Music without words
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
[Noseda] approaches each item with a relish and stylistic certainty that makes you sit up and listen. The playing, also, is the equivalent of what one might hear in a major opera house, and... — More…
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Special offer. Elgar: Falstaff, Orchestral Songs; Grania and Diarmid
Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis
The performances of the songs are ardent, warm and full of conviction. As ever Roderick Williams sounds completely on the composer’s side. But after Falstaff it’s all too clear that they really... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2018, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Symphonique
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Diapason d’Or, April 2018, Nouveauté
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Special offer. Britten: Death in Venice
Philip Langridge (Aschenbach), Alan Opie (Traveller/Elderly Fop/Old Gondolier/Hotel Manager/Hotel Barber/Leader of the Players/Voice of Dionysus), Michael Chance (Voice of Apollo)
BBC Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
The Pears/Bedford version tends to emphasise the opera's elegiac side… The Chandos… is certainly not lacking in depth. But it also has an incisive clarity matching Richard Hickox's generally... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Stravinsky: Symphony No. 1, Symphony in C and other orchestral works
RecommendedNash Ensemble, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Simon Rattle, Sir Alexander Gibson, Neeme Jarvi
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Building a Library, April 2006, First Choice
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Special offer. Ginastera: Orchestral Works 2
RecommendedXiayin Wang (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Ladies of Manchester Chamber Choir, Juanjo Mena
The ambitious score pays homage to Schoenberg, Beethoven and Chopin. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st June 2018
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Reicha’s moments of apparent high seriousness, but when he lets his imagination flow – as in the 12 tiny variations crammed into three and a half minutes of the third Etude – his music is sweetly... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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