CD, Sibelius (composer)
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Tchaikovsky & Sibelius Violin Concertos
RecommendedLisa Batiashvili (violin)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
Batiashvili focuses on poetic intimacy in this deeply thoughtful performance. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th November 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Record Review, 28th January 2017, Recording of the Week
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Building a Library, November 2023, Recommended Recording
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Sibelius & Prokofiev: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJanine Jansen (violin)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä
So impressive. Janine Jansen essentially strips these pieces of all the years of what one might call ‘performance adornment’ and takes them back to their elemental roots. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th June 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Concertos
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It has a magic of its own which Andsnes casts equally, with his pure-source sound and range of colours, over early, middle and late Sibelius. The crystalline cascades of the Impromptu that launches... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2017
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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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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Nielsen & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJohan Dalene (violin)
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
Dalene has a strong command of long evolving lines – crucial in both composers – but he balances that with a fine feeling for ‘speaking’ phrasing and articulation...The expression can certainly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st April 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Concerto
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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New. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Two Serenades; Two Serious Melodies; Swanwhite
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
The level of music-making presented here tells its own story. This is a Sibelius recording that’s up there with the finest of any era...And in the two groups of violin-and-orchestra pieces –... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2025, Orchestral Choice
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Youthful passion occasionally pushes him to stylistic excess...but for most of the time he’s beauty incarnate and in perfect step with his composers’ various voices. He’s also blessed with a... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Sibelius: In the Stream of Life
RecommendedSongs by Sibelius
Gerald Finley (bass-baritone)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
a highly memorable disc. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th December 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The orchestra's sound under Vänskä has a kind of sharp-focus richness that's never cloying. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th July 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2016, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Building a Library, May 2023, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Beethoven & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati
Such glorious playing cannot be recommended too strongly, but for me the Beethoven performance makes a greater contribution to the work’s discography. I won’t soon forget how deeply Tetzlaff... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2019, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 21st September 2019, Disc of the Week
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Sibelius: Luonnotar; Tapiola & Spring Song
RecommendedLise Davidsen (soprano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
[Davidsen's] breath control and even fullness of tone across a two-octave range prove radiantly equal to Sibelius’s uncompromising demands. — More…
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd July 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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