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Maurice Ravel: Orchestral Works
RecommendedMa Mère L’oye, Boléro, Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales, Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte, Alborada Del Gracioso & La Valse
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
this superbly played and sumptuously recorded disc from the Sinfonia of London and John Wilson amply demonstrates the profound benefits of trusting Ravel. Has Ma mère l’Oye ever sounded more... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th January 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Spatial Audio
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Building A Library, February 2024, Recommended Recording - Ma mère l'Oye
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Martinů: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 - Bartók: Sonata for Solo Violin Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hruša
Zimmermann has fully absorbed the slightly eclectic style of [the First Concerto] and produces a performance of conviction, not to mention dazzling virtuosity. Hrůša accompanies with understanding... — More…
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Record Review, 5th December 2020, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Concerto
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Concerto
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the most striking aspects of Podger’s playing throughout this recital (compared to most 20th-century ‘golden-agers’), is her enhanced range of tone and articulation, her vastly more flexible... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Recording of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Instrumental
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Instrumental
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A spellbinding set that is arguably Podger's finest recorded achievement to date...Music that one thinks of instinctively as boldly-etched, deeply (in every sense) introspective and eliciting... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th April 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2019, Recording of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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hugely impressive in that you simply can't tell Sudbin's playing apart from that of his 12-year-old daughter Bella...I’d have been happy for a complete sequence of original Tchaikovsky pianism,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Few are better acquainted [with the Catalogue] than Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and this set is clearly a long-pondered act of love…Needless to say, Aimard possesses the necessary dazzling virtuosity,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Instrumental
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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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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2018
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Instrumental
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Panache is Kantorow’s strength throughout the program, but it is combined with probing emotional maturity, which is rare. I doubt that any prediction will come true for him other than the prediction... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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Imaginative, sensitive programming has been a constant feature of Ruby Hughes’s collaborations; and this latest with the perennially adventurous Manchester Collective is no exception...A disc... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Howells: Cello Concerto & An English Mass
Guy Johnston (cello), Stephen Cleobury (organ)
Britten Sinfonia, King's College Choir Cambridge, King's Voices, Christopher Seaman
Seaman conducts a by turns atmospheric and lively account of the Concerto, while a movement of An English Mass – the ‘Credo’ – is conducted to striking effect by Ben Parry. Cleobury conducts... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Ravel, Debussy & Massenet
RecommendedJean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier
[Bavouzet] turns in a performance of the Fantaisie that illuminates this uneven yet magical work like no other. As to the Ravel concertos, I have no hesitation in saying these are the greatest... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Concerto
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Orchestral Award Winner
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