SACD, Stravinsky (composer)
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Igor Stravinsky, Bartók & Martinů
RecommendedFrank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hrůša
With Jakub Hrůša and his super-attentive Bamberg orchestra, Frank Peter Zimmermann trumps the self-confident projection of his younger self...Stravinsky’s framing movements seem defter now,... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Concertos
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Special offer. Soirée
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (mezzo), Sir Simon Rattle (piano), Rahel Rilling (violin), Wolfram Brandl (violin), Yulia Deyneka (viola), David Adorjan (cello), Andrew Marriner (clarinet)
There is some lovely singing from Kožená, whose fawn-tinted mezzo retains its attractive quality from her earliest discs…She sings the two Brahms collections well, especially the Ophelia Songs,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th September 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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there are wonders to behold here and you can sense and feel the magic descending in the stealthy opening measures of The Firebird. — More…
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Record Review, 16th April 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Special offer. Stravinsky: Perséphone
RecommendedAndrew Staples & Pauline Cheviller
Finnish National Opera, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Orchestral textures are clean yet sensuous, rhythms exactingly precise...In lesser hands, the score can seem episodic. Salonen, however, forges it into a unified drama, in which not a note or... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2018
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Vocal/Choral
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an outstanding young artist at work...the early Tchaikovsky Scherzo brims over with panache and relish; and Islamey rivals even Berezovsky for the title of cleanest and most exhilarating account.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th June 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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United Strings of Europe: Hommages
Igor Stravinsky - Olli Mustonen - Osvaldo Golijov - Dobrinka Tabakova
United Strings of Europe (chamber ensemble), Julian Azkoul
Listeners might already have the Golijov and Mustonen in fine recordings by the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Tapiola Sinfonietta, but this release places them in an even more appropriate setting... — More…
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With exemplary control of orchestral balance, clarity of texture and a capacity to draw a fabulous array of colours from the music, these performances are guaranteed to keep the listener riveted... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, Recording of the Month
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This is a sequence, delivered with absolute clarity and focus throughout by Slobodeniouk and the excellent Galicians, that makes sense of placing the earlier of the two symphonies proper first. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Special offer. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring & Firebird Suite
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer
Fischer and his Budapest forces possess the right ingredients: the orchestra is well drilled in an interpretation that's as straight as a Roman road; its strings are searing, and brass and wooodwind... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Orchestral
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these are thoughtful, well-considered performances, excellently played and recorded...Gergiev's rather deliberate tempo in the first movement of the Rachmaninov seems to stress the 'symphonic',... — More…
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