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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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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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