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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
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
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 OrliƄski / 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...
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
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