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New. Bacewicz: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
RecommendedSymphony No. 2 - Piano Concerto - Concerto For Large Symphony Orchestra
Peter Donohoe (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
Combined with the symphony and the Piano Concerto it makes for a remarkable album that fully demonstrates the stylistic variety and command of the orchestra present throughout Bacewicz's music. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th July 2025
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There's been critical acclaim for the previous TCHAIKOVSKY two volumes in this series, and Chauhan the latest one is well up there, with the opening string phrases of the Suite No. 2 lushly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Editor's Choice
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The hand-picked players of his Sinfonia of London are thrilling in [the] big moments, a relatively small ensemble conjuring the heftiest sonorities…Not always super-refined or conventionally... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th May 2025
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New. Breaking Waves
Grace Williams - Grażyna Bacewicz - Johanna Müller-Hermann
Malin Broman, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra
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New. If the Fates Allow - Music By Purcell and His Contemporaries
Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Sounds Baroque
She is someone who acts fully with her vocal armory, and we can see this in the way she does not only project her voice with prettiness and fluency...Helen Charlston is a special singer. The... — More…
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these are readings cast unapologetically in the Teutonic mould. Chamber orchestral performances under Charles Mackerras or Robin Ticciati, not to mention John Eliot Gardiner's contextualising... — More…
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New. Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Mirella Freni (Madama Butterfly), Luciano Pavarotti (B.F. Pinkerton), Christa Ludwig (Suzuki), Robert Kerns (Sharpless), Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Herbert von Karajan
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Once again, the microphones catch the Chiaroscuro in ravishing sound at the Menuhin School – detailed but warm, reporting the realities of wood, hair and gut but transmitting that particular... — More…
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New. Holst: The Planets – Deborah Cheetham Fraillon: Earth
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Jaime Martin, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon (soprano)
This is Martín's third recording on the orchestra's new in-house label, and there's certainly an edge-of-seat quality to 'Mars', the opening movement of Holst's The Planets, with punchy, wellbalanced... — More…