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New. Keel Road
RecommendedDanish String Quartet (string quartet), Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (violin, harmonium, fiddle, spinet, whistle), Frederik Øland (violin, whistle), Asbjørn Nørgaard (viola, whistle), Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin (cello, bass, whistle), Nikolaj Busk (piano), Ale Carr (cittern)
How can one ensemble be so good at so many things?...There’s no trace of kitsch. They bring to this music the same virtues as their more canonical pursuits: unified and natural phrasing, and... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
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New. Haydn 2032, Vol. 16: The Surprise
Il Giardino Armonico, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini
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New. Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus
Diana Damrau (Rosalinde), Georg Nigl (Eisenstein), Katharina Konradi (Adele), Andrew Watts (Orlofsky), Sean Panikkar (Alfred), Markus Brück (Dr Falke)
Bayerische Staatsoper, Vladimir Jurowski, Barrie Kosky
Right from the off, it just feels right. Kosky is in his element. Whatever your views on his approach to mainstream repertoire, few living directors have thought more carefully about Central... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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New. André Campra: Messe de Requiem & Les Maîtres de Notre-Dame de Paris
Sébastien Daucé, Ensemble Correspondances
This is a superb recording from one of today’s best ensembles to specialise in French Baroque music. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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New. Franck: Symphony in D minor & Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande
RecommendedAlbrecht Meyer (oboe), Emanuel Pahud (flute), Dominik Wollenweber (cor anglais), Berlin Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
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it’s the strikingly dramatic four Ballads, from 1968, and especially the 1939 Four Illustrations for the Legend of Rhiannon, based on an episode from the Mabinogion, and in which Sibelius seems... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
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Ehnes, the internationally revered Canadian violinist, is a flawless technician and a serious, ever perceptive musician. The performance here is muscular but sensitive, with vigorous, well-shaped... — More…
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New. Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas
RecommendedSan Francisco Symphony, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Bay Brass, Isabel Leonard, Audra McDonald, New World Symphony, Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, John Wilson
For listeners whose musical lives have been inexorably shaped by MTT the conductor (and I count myself as one of those), perhaps it’s high time we should be giving MTT the composer the respect... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
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No detail escapes her. Confiding, conversational, anguished, enraptured, she inhabits the piece whose instrumental filigree is perfectly judged by the conductorless Ensemble 360. From the delicate,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
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New. Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3
Lars Vogt (piano), Christian Tetzlaff, Barbara Buntrock, Tanja Tetzlaff
Passion and fragility combine to form the essence of Vogt’s art, especially in the context of this wonderful music. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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