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JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Violin Concerto Leila Josefowicz (violin) / St. Louis Symphony, David Robertson [ Nonesuch / CD - released 1/Jun/2019 ] "Throw into the mix David Robertson's bold interpretation with the excellent St Louis Symphony Orchestra and this recording sets a new benchmark...Faultless." Gramophone Awards 2019 Finalist - Concerto |
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 |
THOMAS ADES
Ades: The Exterminating Angel (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Audrey Luna, Amanda Echalaz, Sally Matthews, Sophie Bevan, Alice Coote, Christine Rice, Iestyn Davies / Thomas Ades (cond) [ Erato Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 20/Feb/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Contemporary |
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 |
DANIEL-LESUR / FRANCAIX / POULENC / MILHAUD / RAVEL / SATIE
Amuse-Bouche: French Choral Delicacies I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth, with Anna Markland (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] "it's in keeping with Hollingworth and his agile, chameleon-like group that…we get something entirely fresh and unexpected, a recording that's a bit sexy, a bit silly and absolutely, unmissably superb" (Editor's Choice Gramophone April 2016) |
JULIAN ANDERSON
Anderson: Heaven Is Shy Of Earth Susan Bickley (mezzo) / London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Oliver Knussen [ Ondine / CD - released 20/Jun/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION TOP THREE - Contemporary |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: The Apostles, Op. 49 (complete oratorio) Rebecca Evans, Paul Groves, Alice Coote / Halle Choir & Orchestra, Mark Elder [ Halle / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] "It has all the tension and excitement of live performance, rising to incandescence in the closing pages, and Mark Elder has perfect control of the large forces and dramatic pacing." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013 RECORDING OF THE YEAR |
THOMAS ADES / ER NORGARD / HANS ABRAHAMSEN
Ades: Arcadiana / Norgard: Quartetto Breve / Abrahamsen: 10 Preludes The Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 15/Apr/2016 ] "The Danish are remarkable, as ever - capable of intense blend, extreme dynamic variation (in which they seem glued together), perfect intonation even on harmonics, and constant vitality and flow" Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Chamber |
LEONARDO VINCI
Vinci: Artaserse (complete opera) Max Emanuel Cencic, Philippe Jaroussky, Franco Fagioli, Valer Barna-Sabadus / Concerto Köln, Diego Fasolis [ Erato / 3 CD Box Set - released 25/Jan/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Baroque Vocal |
ANONYMOUS
Au Sainct Nau Ensemble Clément Janequin, Dominique Visse [ Alpha / CD - released 17/Nov/2014 ] "The ensemble continues to do what it does best but retains a freshness and questing spirit that sometimes eludes groups of comparable vintage, a sense of joyous music-making." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Early Music) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Consolatio Ricercar Consort [ Mirare / CD - released 20/Jun/2019 ] The first cantatas offered by Bach in Leipzig: sinfonia, chorus, chorale, recitative, most diverse tunes, all struck by the eloquence of the musician, but also full of poetry according to deep spiritual commentaries. A great art is displayed here,... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations Beatrice Rana (piano) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] "Her detailing is one of the aspects that makes this performance so compelling, be it the bringing out of a new line in the repeat, subtle changes in phrasing, a touch of pedal - examples are to be found in every single variation." Gramophone |
J. S. BACH
Bach: 'Meins Lebens Licht' Cantatas BWV 45 & 198 / Motet BWV 118 Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe (director) / Dorothee Mields (soprano), Alex Potter (alto), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass) [ PHI / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] 'O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, is tailor-made for Herreweghe. No one else peels back those tactile homogeneous phrases with quite such luminosity and deep-seated finesse as Collegium Vocale.' Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Choral |
J. S. BACH
Bach: St Matthew Passion Julian Prégardien, Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Hana Blažiková, Tim Mead / Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD Box Set - released 29/Apr/2022 ] "With its glowing inner vitality and penetrating observations, this is a Passion that makes a very definite statement about what this work can communicate in our times." Gramophone Award WINNER 2022 - Choral |
J. S. BACH
Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV244 James Gilchrist, Stephan Loges, Hannah Morrison, Zoë Brookshaw, Charlotte Ashley, Reginald Mobley / Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] "..a thoughtfully moulded, expertly executed and deeply committed reading, so honestly communicative of its intent and so free of self-conscious monumentalism, sententiousness or melodramatics...one of his finest achievements." Gramophone |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 7 Orgelbüchlein, Bwv 599-644 (with Choir) Benjamin Alard (harpsichord & clavichord), Ensemble Vocal Bergamasque, Marine Fribourg, Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] 'The effect, both individually and collectively, is stunning.' Gramophone Award Finalist 2023 - Instrumental |
J.S. BACH
Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort - III Phantasm, Laurence Dreyfus [ Linn / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] "Through the intimacy of the viol consort these keyboard works are clothed in a new timbral mantle, equally sumptuous and revelatory." Recording of the Month BBC Music Magazine April 2023 |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier - Book II [excerpts] Piotr Anderszewski (piano) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 29/Jan/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Piano |
BELA BARTOK
Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle Mika Kares (Bluebeard), Szilvia Vörös (Judith) / Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Sep/2020 ] '[Mälkki] seems to know instinctively when to unobtrusively tighten the emotional screw and when to step back and simply let us take in Bartók's flabbergasting orchestral canvas.' Editor's Choice Gramophone June 2021 |
BELA BARTOK / GYORGY- LIGETI / SANDOR VERESS / PETER EOTVOS
Bartók/Ligeti/Veress/Eötvös - Solos Nurit Stark (violin/viola) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jun/2022 ] "quite a journey, one that's profoundly representative of the Hungarian musical psyche in the 20th century and which is served by a musician whose talents certainly qualify her for the job of performing it." Gramophone Award WINNER 2023 |
