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Britten: The Turn of the Screw
RecommendedJoan Rodgers (Governess), Ian Bostridge (Prologue/Peter Quint), Jane Henschel (Mrs Grose), Vivian Tierney (Miss Jessel), Julian Leang (Miles), Caroline Wise (Flora)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding
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Building a Library, November 2013, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2002, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Opera
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Stutzmann’s deep burgundy contralto, like a freakishly rich, wide-ranging countertenor, is the perfect fit for this repertoire...[Her] characterisation and vocal colouring are always true and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Tüür - Symphony No. 4 'Magma'
Evelyn Glennie (percussion)
Male Singers from the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Estonian National Male Choir
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
Glennie is at her most charismatic in Magma, an intoxicating physical score; the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi not only supports her blow for blow but plays the entire... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Contemporary
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2007, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2007, Editor's Choice
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JS Bach: Violin Concertos
RecommendedShunske Sato (violin), Zefira Valova (second violin)
Il Pomo d'oro
All the speeds here just feel right: unhurried, but equally brimming with energy and flow. What really makes this recording one to treasure, though, is the degree of uncontrived personality... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 5th January 2019, Disc of the Week
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Building A Library, February 2022, Also Recommended
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Shostakovich: Cantatas
RecommendedAleksei Tanovitski (bass) & Kostiantin Andrejev (tenor)
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Narva Boys Choir & Estonian Concert Choir, Paavo Järvi
Bass Alexei Tanovitski could be more nuanced, but there's no faulting the Estonians' open, searing sounds...Bright, open children's voices join authentic choral fervour and the engineering gives... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th May 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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This eclectic, if not eccentric song recital by the musically promiscuous French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky should not work. That it does, and so convincingly, is down to the fastidious... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Green - Melodies françaises on Verlaine’s poems
RecommendedPhilippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Jerome Ducros (piano) & Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
Quatuor Ebène
may be the single most appealing and important French song recital this side of the largely excellent but sometimes uneven Fauré and Debussy discs on Hyperion...Throughout, Jaroussky's singing... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Vocal Winner
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My Christmas
RecommendedDiana Damrau (soprano), Matthias Höfs (trumpet), NDR Radiophilharmonie, Knabenchor Hanover, Richard Whilds, Riccardo Minasi
Damrau’s two-disc My Christmas ticks some of the same boxes as the legendary Elisabeth Schwarzkopf’s Christmas Album, though Damrau seems more naturally at home in the seasonal idiom...Opinions... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year
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This acute sense of emotional timing distinguishes the Ébènes from many of their contemporary rivals. They present Beethoven unburdened by the weight of history or hindsight, leaving the quartets... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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[Rondeau's] performance of Le vertigo is a thing of pugilistic wonder, flouncing around like an operatic diva succumbing to a hissy fit…he cuts a virtuosic swathe through Royer’s Marche des... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Recording - harpsichord (music up to and including 18th century)
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