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Crazy Girl Crazy: Music by Gershwin, Berg and Berio
Recommendedincluding bonus documentary DVD
Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor)
Ludwig Orchestra
Crazy Girl Crazy is an album that – just like its muse and protagonist – flouts the rules…The litheness of Hannigan’s voice beguiles, so that the near-segue into the Lulu Suite (1934) comes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd September 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, Recording of the month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Recording - voice (Oratorio/Concert/Lied)
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Special offer. Ravel, Dutilleux & Delage
Recorded live at the Barbican Hall, 13th January 2016
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Julia Bullock (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
In seeing as well as hearing this concert, what comes over is Rattle's love for the music and the orchestra's wholehearted response: it all looks so terribly easy, though of course it's anything... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, DVD of the Month
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Special offer. Sophia – Biography of a Violin Concerto
A Jan Schmidt-Garre Film
with Sofia Gubaidulina, Anne-Sophie Mutter & Gidon Kremer
Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle
it's the polarity of composer and performer that is the kernel of the film: Mutter cool, sveltely glamorous and severely practical, Gubaidulina looking more and more like a rumpled Babushka... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - DVD Documentary
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2011, DVD of the Month
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Life with Czech Music - Janacek & Martinu
RecommendedElisabeth Söderström (soprano), Drahomira Drobkova (contralto), Frantisek Livora (tenor), Richard Novak (bass), Jan Hora (organ), Kvetoslava Nemeckova (soprano), Leo Marian Vodicka (tenor), Vaclav Zitek (baritone), Josef Ruzicka (piano), Jan Bouse (timpani), Eva Urbanova (soprano), Bernarda Fink...
Even the recording acoustic is warm, enough sometimes to curl the music’s edges and smudge away little details. But Mackerras’s handling of this repertoire is so fresh, so responsive to the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Choral
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Special offer. This Is Rattle
Grime, Ades. Birtwistle, Knussen & Elgar
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
The dazzling panache of the LSO’s playing has you wondering all over again at the mesmerising range of options that Adès’s ear and technical command can summon…And Elgar’s Enigma Variations... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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This captures much of the peerless tone-colour, shape, drive and above all those hushed dynamics of [the] performance, awarded what feels like an infinite silence at the end...Abbado's pacing... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - DVD Performance
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, DVD of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, DVD Award Winner
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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Barbara Hannigan (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Every nuance [of The Rite] is crafted, each detail considered, yet there is still a sense of danger and visceral power…Rattle and the LSO are joined, usurped even, by the extraordinary Barbara... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, Orchestral Choice
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the Leipzig players do [Chailly] proud. There are so many stunning solos, from tenor horn at the start to the first trumpet who never splits brilliant top notes in the finale, that names should... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Video Performance
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This performance curtails the silences in the interests of the Italian conductor Claudio Abbado’s linear approach...This is Bruckner sunny side up, lending a molto espressivo bloom to the string... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - DVD Performance
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Schumann: Cello Concerto, Piano Trio No. 1
RecommendedJean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Melnikov marshals the crystalline timbres of his 1847 Streicher fortepiano with panache and clarity without in any way sacrificing the urgency of the musical argument … Intimacy also lies at... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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