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Handel's Queens cover
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL & OTHERS
Handel's Queens
Lucy Crowe, Mary Bevan / London Early Opera, Bridget Cunningham
[ Signum / 2 CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ]
"This soundly made programme is both pleasing and intriguing." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Recital
Sandrine Piau - Si j'ai aimé cover
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SAINT-SAENS / FAURE / BERLIOZ / MASSENET etc
Sandrine Piau - Si j'ai aimé
Sandrine Piau (soprano) / Le Concert de la Loge, Julien Chauvin
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/May/2019 ]
Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Recital BBC Music Award Finalist 2020
Stravinsky: Petrushka & The Firebird / Ravel: Miroirs & La Valse cover
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IGOR STRAVINSKY / MAURICE RAVEL
Stravinsky: Petrushka & The Firebird / Ravel: Miroirs & La Valse
Beatrice Rana (piano)
[ Warner Classics / CD - released 25/Oct/2019 ]
International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Solo Instrumental
Schumann - Myrthen cover
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann - Myrthen
Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Camilla Tilling (soprano), Gerold Huber (piano)
[ Sony Classical / CD - released 18/Oct/2019 ]
"Certainly a top choice for this wonderful cycle." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Solo Vocal
Beethoven / Sibelius: Violin Concertos cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / JEAN SIBELIUS
Beethoven / Sibelius: Violin Concertos
Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati
[ Ondine / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ]
If Beethoven's Concerto emerges as uncompromisingly provocative, Tetzlaff's Sibelius also errs on the side of danger…In many respects, a real knock-out." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Concerto
Norgard: Whirl's World / Spell / Babettes Gaestebud Suite / Trio Breve cover
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PER NORGÅRD
Norgard: Whirl's World / Spell / Babettes Gaestebud Suite / Trio Breve
Ensemble MidtVest
[ Dacapo / CD - released 1/Aug/2019 ]
"Different facets-or rather, perhaps, a broad portrait-of this Danish composer's beguiling music, performed with passion and complete affinity with his sound world by Ensemble MidtVest" (Shortlisted - Chamber Gramophone Awards 2020)
Purcell/Blow: Elegy - Countertenor duets by Purcell & Blow cover
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HENRY PURCELL / JOHN BLOW
Purcell/Blow: Elegy - Countertenor duets by Purcell & Blow
Iestyn Davies, James Hall (countertenors) The King's Consort, Robert King
[ Vivat / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ]
"This is surely one of the best countertenor performances on disc…This whole disc is a trove of bittersweet delights." Shortlisted - Recital Gramophone Awards 2020
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice cover
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CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Iestyn Davies, Sophie Bevan, Rebecca Bottone / La Nuova Musica, Davis Bates
[ Pentatone / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ]
"High praise, then, for David Bates and his ensemble." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Opera
Schoenberg: Violin concerto / Verklärte Nacht [Transfigured Night] cover
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Violin concerto / Verklärte Nacht [Transfigured Night]
Isabelle Faust (violin) / Daniel Harding, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, A. Tamestit & J-G. Queyras
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ]
"Faust brings a fabulous range of colour and expressive nuance to this music, and Daniel Harding matches her understanding in the way he teases out the wiry orchestral textures around her violin lines." The Guardian Five Stars
Handel: Agrippina (complete opera) cover
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Agrippina (complete opera)
Joyce DiDonato, Elsa Benoit, Biagio Pizzuti, Franco Fagioli, Andrea Mastroni, Jakub Józef Orliński / l Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
[ Erato Classics / 3 CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ]
"With DiDonato nonpareil in the title-role and a uniformly strong cast, this now becomes a first choice for Handel's Venetian masterpiece." Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Opera
L'Arianna cover
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HAYDN / HANDEL / SCARLATTI
L'Arianna
Kate Lindsey (mezzo-soprano) / Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Jan/2020 ]
"what really make the project spark...The playing of Arcangelo under Jonathan Cohen is typically high-quality, and often heartbreakingly attendant to the drama." Gramophone Awards 2020 - Short List - Recital
Adès Conducts Adès cover
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THOMAS ADES
Adès Conducts Adès
Mark Stone (baritone), Kirill Gerstein (piano), Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Adès
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ]
"...for proof that Adès does what he does with mind-boggling brilliance, look no further." Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Contemporary
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5
Martin Helmchen (piano) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Andrew Manze
[ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Dec/2019 ]
As the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth approaches, and following a much admired version of the Diabelli Variations (Alpha 386 - Gramophone Editor's Choice), Martin Helmchen has decided to record his complete piano concertos...
Janácek: The diary of one who disappeared & other works cover
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LEOS JANACEK
Janácek: The diary of one who disappeared & other works
Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)
[ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Jun/2019 ]
"Not only does Spence's voice offer a rare mix of steely strength and velvety tenderness but his bright, vibrant timbre communicates a touching, wide-eyed sense of ardent longing, tinged with melancholy." Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Solo Vocal
Alkan: Concerto and Symphony for Solo Piano cover
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CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
Alkan: Concerto and Symphony for Solo Piano
Paul Wee (piano)
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2019 ]
"What is almost incredible is that the soloist Paul Wee is not a professional pianist but a highly successful international commercial London lawyer." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Instrumental
Korngold: Symphony in F Sharp / Straussiana / Theme & Variations cover
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ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
Korngold: Symphony in F Sharp / Straussiana / Theme & Variations
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson (conductor)
[ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Aug/2019 ]
"The playing of the Sinfonia of London is astonishingly brilliant, with Hollywood-dream glories in the string tone" BBC Music Magazine Awards 2020 WINNER - Orchestral
Dohnányi: Piano Quintets & String Quartet No 2 cover
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ERNO DOHNANYI
Dohnányi: Piano Quintets & String Quartet No 2
Takács Quartet, Marc-André Hamelin
[ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ]
"...They allow every passionate detail to come across yet preserve a sense of nobility and innate grace that I always associate with Dohnányi." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Chamber
C.P.E. Bach: Oboe Concertos cover
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C.P.E. BACH
C.P.E. Bach: Oboe Concertos
Xenia Löffler (oboe), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
[ Hamonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ]
"Mingling athletic precision and devil-may-care abandon, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin relish the music's seething energy and harmonic and dynamic shocks" - Gramophone Award 2020 Short List - Concerto
J.S. Bach: St Matthew Passion cover
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
J.S. Bach: St Matthew Passion
Benjamin Bruns, Christian Immler, Carolyn Sampson, Damien Guillon, etc / Bach Collegium Japan chorus & orchestra / Masaaki Suzuki
[ BIS SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 7/Feb/2020 ]
"The musicians convey it with infectious zeal...Generic early music politesse is relegated to the shadows" Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Choral
Gounod: Faust (complete original opera production from 1859) cover
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CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Faust (complete original opera production from 1859)
Véronique Gens, Andrew Foster-Williams; Benjamin Bernheim; Jean-Sébastien Bou /Flemish Radio Choir, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
[ Bru Zane / 3 CD/Book - released 23/Aug/2019 ]
"It also happens to be a terrific recording on its own terms...Rousset underpins it all with conducting that is fleet and dramatically engaged." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short list - Opera
Leonardo da Vinci, La Musique Secrète cover
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Leonardo da Vinci, La Musique Secrète
Doulce Mémoire, Denis Raisin Dadre
[ Alpha Classics CD + Book / CD/Book - released 10/May/2019 ]
2019 saw the 500th commemoration of the death of one of the greatest geniuses humanity has produced: Leonardo da Vinci, scientist, inventor, painter - an musician.
Handel: Samson cover
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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Samson
Joshua Ellicott, Sophie Bevan, Fflur Wyn, Mary Bevan, Jess Dandy, Hugo Hymas / Dunedin Consort, John Butt
[ Linn / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2019 ]
"This new Samson now becomes the top recommendation: for its uniformly excellent soloists, its excitingly 'present' choral singing and, above all, its more urgent sense of theatre" Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Choral
An English Coronation, 1902-1953: Edward VII, George V, George VI, Elizabeth II cover
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CROFT / ELGAR / PARRY / WOOD / LUTHER / HOWELLS
An English Coronation, 1902-1953: Edward VII, George V, George VI, Elizabeth II
Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh
[ Signum / 2 CD - released 9/May/2019 ]
"One can imagine the virtuosity required by every contributor, at every turn, to make this a reality, let alone a dazzling triumph." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Choral
Landini: L'Occhio del Cor cover
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FRANCISCO LANDINI
Landini: L'Occhio del Cor
The Heart's Eye / La Reverdie, Christophe Deslignes
[ Arcana / CD - released 24/Apr/2019 ]
"They do everything with verve and commitment,...there is a quality of musical exchange, of understanding where the pressure-points must come and of clear projection that is a rare pleasure to hear." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Early Music
Kurtag: Zwiegesprache cover
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GYORGY KURTAG
Kurtag: Zwiegesprache
Heinz Holliger (oboe/cor anglais/piano), Marie-Lise Schüpbach (cor anglais/oboe), Ernesto Molinari (bass clarinet/ contrabass clarinet), Sarah Wegener
[ ECM New Series / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ]
explores his interpretative gifts as a performer rather than his full range as a composer, its focus on the dialogues between his own music and that of György Kurtág makes for a beautifully rounded double portrait - Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List
Jakub Józef Orliński - Facce d'Amore cover
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CAVALLI / BONONCINI / HANDEL / MATTEIS / SCARLATTI / HASSE / etc
Jakub Józef Orliński - Facce d'Amore
Jakub Józef Orliński (countertenor) / Il pomo d'oro, Maxim Emelyanchev
[ Erato Classics / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ]
Gramophone Awards 2020 Shortlisted - Recital International Opera Awards 2021 - Winner (Solo recital)
Beethoven Violin Sonatas Op. 12 cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven Violin Sonatas Op. 12
James Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano)
[ Onyx / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ]
Editor's Choice Gramophone December 2019
Gesualdo: Madrigali, books 1 & 2 cover
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CARLO GESUALDO
Gesualdo: Madrigali, books 1 & 2
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew
[ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ]
"The sheer inquisitive delight that these singers bring to Gesualdo's extraordinary world indicates a very exciting series ahead" Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Early Music
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique / Les Francs-juges Overture, Op. 3 cover
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique / Les Francs-juges Overture, Op. 3
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ]
"Roth seems to have an emotional hotline to Berlioz, alive to every twist and turn of the composer's fevered passions." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Orchestral
Peñalosa: Lamentationes cover
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FRANCISCO de PENALOSA
Peñalosa: Lamentationes
New York Polyphony
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Sep/2019 ]
"It's wonderful to hear more music from Francisco de Peñalosa, and particularly pleasing that it comes on this stylish release from New York Polyphony complete with superb booklet notes by Ivan Moody" Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Early Music
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis
[ Sony Classical / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ]
"In this most celebrated of symphonies the players sound at times as though they might explode with excitement." BBC Music Orchestral recording of the Month July 2020
Brahms: The Final Piano Pieces cover
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Final Piano Pieces
Stephen Hough (piano)
[ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ]
"'One of the finest accounts of Brahms's late piano works on record, one that stands head and shoulders above most contenders in an ever-growing catalogue." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Instrumental
Parry: Judith, or The Regeneration of Manasseh (complete oratorio recorded in 2019) cover
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SIR CHARLES HUBERT H. PARRY
Parry: Judith, or The Regeneration of Manasseh (complete oratorio recorded in 2019)
Toby Spence, Kathryn Rudge, Sarah Fox, Henry Waddington / London Mozart Players, William Vann
[ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2020 ]
"Conductor William Vann, who avoids any suggestion of bombast or sentimentality, and builds Parry's great paragraphs so eloquently and with such assurance that you'd think he'd been conducting this music all his life" Gramophone Award 2020 Short List