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Podger and her gang serve up kaleidoscopically imaginative pleasure after pleasure here. Her preludes come with especial composed-as-it-goes freedom, often with a really mercurial otherworldliness... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th July 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Editor's Choice
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Bojan Cičić is an athletic virtuoso who is comfortably able to communicate the myriad expressive subtleties of Biber's music, sometimes gently and alluringly expressive, at others exuberant... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th July 2025
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Their music-making is uniquely bonded from the start, an easeful gliding into the simple language of the Shostakovich Cello Sonata (Weinberg's melodic uniqueness, too, in his Second Sonata)...All... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th June 2025
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2025, Recording of the Week
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New. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
Yunchan Lim (piano)
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Lim's was a stupendous achievement not just for an 18-year-old and deserves its stand-alone presentation. Thanks to his surfeit of technical wizardry and determination to take nothing for granted... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2025, Concerto Choice
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New. King of Kings - JS Bach Orchestral Transcriptions
RecommendedBBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis, Martyn Brabbins
Writing about his arrangement of Messiah, Davis commented that "everything I have done instrumentally stems from the enormous respect, even awe, which I feel towards this supreme masterpiece",... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st August 2025
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New. Edward Gardner conducts Britten
RecommendedNicky Spence (tenor)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Rarely since Britten’s own classic Decca recording have I heard a performance of the Sinfonia da Requiem bristling with such visceral energy and structural inevitably as this new account from... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th May 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Editor's Choice
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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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The Moments musicaux speak with a morning freshness throughout, each imbued with its own unmistakably individual identity...All this is accomplished without a trace of sentimentality and a gorgeous... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Editor's Choice
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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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New. Wilhelm Furtwängler: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor
RecommendedEstonian National Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
In the later stages of this live recording you sense the players' energy flagging a little, even with Neeme Järvi's astonishing octogenarian energy at the helm. Everywhere else, this is a classy... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th June 2025
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New. For Dieter: Hommage à Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
RecommendedBenjamin Appl (baritone), James Baillieu (piano)
Benjamin Appl’s singing is thoughtful and enjoyable.The voice sometimes uncannily recalls that of his guru...Appl and his artistic partners deserve huge credit for making this imaginative, moving... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd May 2025
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2025, Vocal Choice
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New. Steve Reich: Jacob's Ladder/Traveler's Prayer
RecommendedNew York Philharmonic, Synergy Vocals, Colin Currie Group, Jaap van Zweden, Colin Currie
The gentle vocal lines and placid instrumental textures from the Colin Currie Group in Traveler’s Prayer feel exactly right. It’s the least ‘Reich-like’ sound I’ve heard in any of his compositions...Jacob’s... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th July 2025
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New. Gilbert & Sullivan: Utopia, Limited Or the Flowers of Progress
RecommendedNeal Davies (King Paramount), Ellie Laugharne (Princess Zara), Yvonne Howard (Lady Sophy), William Morgan (Captain Fitzbattleaxe), Richard Suart (Scaphio), Arthur Bruce (Phantis)
The Orchestra of Scottish Opera & Chorus, Derek Clark
If Gilbert wasn’t quite on top form, the score contains some of Sullivan’s best writing - done full justice here by Clark’s zippy, flexible direction and a uniformly strong cast of British singers... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th June 2025
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What is there left to say about Symphonie fantastique? Plenty, on the evidence of this vibrant new recording of Berlioz’s extraordinary masterpiece...Mäkelä gets the strings to shun the comfort... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th June 2025
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Magdalena Kožená and Mitsuko Uchida have the kind of symbiosis that comes from having performed this repertoire together for many years, moving as one in the Wagnerian ebb and flow of Debussy’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Editor's Choice
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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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New. Sir Arthur Bliss: The Composer Conducts
John Ogdon (piano), Cyril Smith, Phyllis Sellick, Donald Douglas, BBC Chorus and Choral Society, Alexandra Choir, Croydon Philharmonic Society, Bbc Symphony Orchestra, BBC Northern Orchestra, Sir Arthur Bliss
London Symphony Orchestra
Here’s a splendid tribute to Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) marking the 50th anniversary of his death. It also serves as a most welcome reminder of his considerable interpretative acumen on the podium. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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In the first complete recording of Purcell’s eight keyboard suites on the modern piano, Romanian pianist Cristian Sandrin sets the bar impressively high. His accounts blend an instinctive grasp... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2025, Instrumental Choice
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New. Bohuslav Martinů: The Complete Works for Cello and Piano
Vilém Vlček (cello), Denis Linnik (piano)
These are interpretations with an unyielding grip, evident both in the urgency of the outer movements and the profundity in between...May we hear more from these talented musicians. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Recording of the Week
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New. A Prayer For Deliverance
Emma Walshe (soprano), Rosanna Wicks (soprano), Victoria Meteyard (soprano), Hannah Cooke (contralto), Anna Semple (contralto), Tom Robson (tenor), Nicholas Madden (tenor), Jeremy Budd (tenor), Jack Granby (tenor), Joseph Edwards (baritone), Gabriel Crouch (bass-baritone), Jimmy Holliday (bass-baritone),...
This latest recording once again showcases his singers' effortless versatility both as choristers and soloists...One of Tenebrae's great strengths is to bring both dignity and panache to these... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2025, August 2025
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New. Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps. Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano), Samson Tsoy (piano)
Kolesnikov and Tsoy vindicate the piano arrangement [of Le Sacre du printemp] as a concert piece...However many or few piano duet albums you want on your virtual or actual shelves, I’d struggle... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Editor's Choice
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New. Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
Yuja Wang (piano), Cécile Lartigau (ondes martenot)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Whether adding the most delicate filigree to the symphony’s more reflective movements, like the sixth, Jardín du Sommeil d’ Amour, providing virtuoso punctuation to the eighth, Développement... — More…
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New. Visiting Rachmaninoff: Chopin Variations - Romances
Julia Lezhneva (soprano), Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Melnikov is very animated in the Chopin Variations, a propulsive, sometimes restless account...I’ve always associated Lezhneva primarily with Baroque and bel canto repertoire, where her cut-glass... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Editor's Choice
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Given the jumping between centuries, the mix of music old and new works very well, eased on its way by the unchanging artistry of the Six themselves: two countertenors, two tenors, one baritone... — More…
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New. Ligeti: Violin Concerto - Concert Românesc - Piano Concerto
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Isabelle Faust, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger
No memorable performance of such a startling score should be deemed effortless, but this one has the riveting atmosphere of a manic yet fiercely constrained improvisation...the result is a stunning... — 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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each work was approached afresh each time he played it, always finding something new, whether it’s the joy that courses through the third of the Op 31 set, the myriad colours and subtleties... — More…
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Whilst there’s a certain rough magic to hearing the Overture to Die Zauberflöte performed on the very keyboard where it was conjured into life, the writing taxes the little instrument to its... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th July 2025
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New. Price: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Piano Concerto in One Movement in D minor & Dances in the Canebrakes
Fanny Clamagirand (violin), Han Chen (piano), Malmö Opera, John Jeter
Not much is known about the origins of the expansive First Concerto, but as soon as you hear it, you'll have an idea of Price's influences at the time...Heart-on-sleeve playing from soloist... — More…
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The sweetness of tone that Gerhaher produced when younger has faded, but his sense of drama is unchanged, the ability to characterise different voices...Huber is a scrupulous partner throughout. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2025, Editor's Choice
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