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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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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. 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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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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