CD, Weill, K (composer)
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Special offer. The Kurt Weill Album
RecommendedKatharine Mehrling (Anna), Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Joana Mallwitz
Mallwitz and her orchestra play every note with meaning. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd August 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
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Forbidden, yet seldom forbidding, Appl’s exquisitely cultivated fruits are ripe for plucking, and deserve to be consumed with unalloyed relish! — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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Dance With Me
RecommendedLUDWIG Orchestra, Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Lucienne Rénaudin-Vary (trumpet), Berlage Saxophone Quartet
The tautness of the Ludwig Orchestra’s playing – augmented in four dances by the Berlage Saxophone Quartet – echoes that of the best bands of the big band era, and the arrangements are not only... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th March 2022
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Kaleidoscope
RecommendedFatma Said (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Sascha Goetzel
Said vaults effortlessly across stylistic boundaries, often via dazzling arrangements by her collaborator Tim Allhoff. And that Whitney Houston track? Even diehard sceptics will be moved by... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd September 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
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Requiem – The Pity of War
RecommendedMahler – Stephan – Butterworth – Weill
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Sir Antonio Pappano (piano)
Bostridge and Antonio Pappano are on superb form here, carefully responsive to style and mood, yet striving throughout for unsparing immediacy of expression…Stephan’s taxing vocal lines push... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th October 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Quiet City
RecommendedAlison Balsom (trumpet), Tom Poster (piano), Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais), Britten Sinfonia, Scott Stroman
Revisiting the improvisatory practice of jazz icons with highly idiosyncratic techniques can fall flat, but Balsom and the Britten Sinfonia make it work. They are entirely idiomatic and wonderfully... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th August 2022
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1923 - The Wild Sound of the 20s: Bartók; Krenek; Toch; Weill
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Cristian Mačelaru, Howard Arman
The centenary of German radio is marked here by works composed at the time. Spikily characterful dance suites by Toch, Weill and Bartók neatly sum up the era, while Krenek’s a cappella choral... — More…
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Record Review, 18th February 2023, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Billed as ‘Kate Lindsey with Baptiste Trotignon’, it reveals the jazz pianist, who shows luminous classical credentials here too, as equal to the mezzo’s multi-hued originality…I’d like to hear... — More…
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Special offer. Weill & Vasks: Violin Concertos
Anthony Marwood (violin & conductor)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Anthony Marwood has championed the Vasks over a number of years and delivers a wonderfully moving and intense performance of the solo part. The strings of the Academy of St Martins in the Fields... — More…
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Christopher Purves sings magnificently, spinning an enviable thread of legato through the narrative of each song. A consummate actor, too, with commanding diction, he invariably finds a distinctive... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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