Presto Recordings of the Year, Mahler (composer)
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Mahler: Symphony No. 10
Recommendedperforming version by Deryck Cooke
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Vänskä sees to it that his ever-waxing Minnesota Orchestra is ideally engaged with the various heights and depths...Limpid and lurid woodwind playing shines out, from the ghoulish clarinets... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th March 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3
RecommendedGerhild Romberger (mezzo-soprano)
Augsburger Domsingknaben, Frauenchor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernard Haitink
a perfect beauty of a performance, natural sound matching natural evoution and every solo perfectly intoned — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th January 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Winner - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Recording of the Year
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Record Review, 7th January 2017, Recording of the Week
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It’s the most lightly, as in ineffably, characterised Mahler One I’ve heard since Kubelík’s. Everything flows, moves forward without rush…And when he needs to, Fischer pulls out the stops –... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Orchestral
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There’s no doubt that the Munich-based orchestra is among the best in the world today...But what lifts this up among the very best Sixth Symphony recordings is the finale – this time perfectly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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What is remarkable about hearing Mahler’s most classicallyorientated symphony performed on instruments of the period when it was written is that the music’s strongly Expressionist subtext comes... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 27th August 2022, Record of the Week
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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what’s truly unique is the marriage of low-level dynamics which inform so much of the work with absolute focus… Every Mahler One should make one reflect on some aspect of the work ’s originality;... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Hans Rott: Symphony No. 1
RecommendedMahler: Blumine - Bruckner: Symphonisches Präludium
Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hrůša
Since its disinterring in 1989, there have been some fine recordings, but surely none more persuasive than this. Jakub Hrůša plainly loves the score and strives to characterise its every detail,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Symphonic Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Conductor of the Year
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Special offer. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
RecommendedSarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Robert Dean Smith (tenor)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
[Connolly] makes the perfect case for pulling the lustrous stops out at each death-transcending release in the ‘Farewell’; Mahler may mark the dynamics at a lower level, but the emotion is irresistible.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2020, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
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Special offer. Mahler: Song Cycles
RecommendedAlice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Albrecht
A mezzo can bring so many colours to the expression, and in that respect Alice Coote matches the previously unsurpassable challenge of Janet Baker with Barbirolli. There’s even a plus: the height,... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Record Review, 12th August 2017, Recording of the Week
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 3
RecommendedGerhild Romberger (alto)
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Cantemus Children's Choir, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Iván Fischer
As vivid a performance as one would expect. That stylishly lazy trombone, a dying monster, is emblematic of the characteristic licence the conductor gives to his splendid Budapest players…the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Record Review, 20th May 2017, Recording of the Week
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Audiophile Multi-Track Recording of the Year
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