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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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