Search Results: GRAMAWARDNOM26
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ALBRICI / J. CHRISTOPH BACH / J. FISCHER / GEIST / KNUPFER / KNEGER / etc
'Northern Light' - 'Echoes from 17th-Century Scandinavia' Lucile Richardot (mezzo) / Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 11/Apr/2025 ] "Ensemble Correspondances conjure up an intimate, focused sound world, in which every detail tells. But the star of the show is soloist Lucile Richardot, who is listed as a mezzo but might at times be mistaken for a countertenor." Gramophone |
GALINA USTVOLSKAYA
Ustvolskaya: Symphonies 1-5 Oliver Barlow (treble), Arlo Murray (treble), Barbara Kozelj (contralto), Sergej Merkusjev (narrator), Joonas Ahonen (piano), London Philharmonic Orch [ BIS SACD / CD - released 24/Oct/2025 ] "let me emphasise how much the mesmeric beauty of Ustvolskaya's pithy motifs manages to get under your skin, particularly when the performances from the soloists, LPO and Christian Karlsen are so committed." Gramophone Award Nomination 2026 |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: String Quartets 2, 3, 5 & 7 Pavel Haas Quartet [ Supraphon / CD - released 19/Sep/2025 ] "While Martinů's quartets suffer less than total neglect, the present anthology could be a game-changer for a series which, the Seventh apart, gets fewer performances than it deserves." Gramophone Award WINNER 2026 - Chamber |
IGOR STRAVINSKY / MAURICE RAVEL
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring / Ravel Ma Mère l'Oye Pavel Kolesnikov, Samson Tsoy (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jun/2025 ] "Kolesnikov and Tsoy vindicate the piano arrangement [of Le Sacre du printemp] as a concert piece...However many or few piano duet albums you want on your virtual or actual shelves, I'd struggle to recommend any above this one." Gramophone |
GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
Bacewicz: Orchestral Works, Volume 2 Peter Donohoe (Piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Jul/2025 ] "For anyone wondering why Bacewicz is now considered among the more notable composers of her era this Chandos release, replete with its provocative notes from Katarzyna Naliwajek, is the preferred option." Gramophone Editor's Choice 2026 - Orchestral |
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach, (J.S.): Johannes Passion [St John Passion] Julian Prégardien; Huw Montague Rendall, Ying Fang, Lucile Richardot, Étienne Bazola, etc / Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2026 ] "You feel it in the gut like few other accounts, alongside unalloyed human observation and unyielding quality. Pygmalion have now served us with a trilogy of Bach masterpieces throwing down the gauntlet for our times." Gramophone Award Nomination '26 |
KAPSBERGER / FOSCARINI / GIANONCELLI / LISLEVAND / ORTIZ
Libro Primo Rolf Lislevand (lute) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 12/Sep/2025 ] "The emphasis is on intimacy and interiority, and absolutely none the worse for that: to the contrary, Lislevand on his own is a pleasure to listen to." Gramophone Award Finalist 2026 instrumental |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi - Il sesto libro de madrigali RossoPorpora, Walter Testolin [ Arcana / CD - released 10/Oct/2025 ] "In [Walter Testolin's] hands, this last book of completely polyphonic madrigals has a dreamlike quality that matches many of their pastoral overtones." Gramophone Award Finalist 2026 - Early Music |
THOMAS ADES / HARRISON BIRTWISTLE / JAMES DILLON
Vesper: Music for Guitar by Ades, Birtwistle & James Dillon Sean Shibe (guitar) [ Pentatone / CD - released 17/Apr/2026 ] "A compelling portrait by Sean Shibe of the classical guitar's voice in the 21st century, music by Thomas Adès, Harrison Birtwistle and James Dillon offering a stunning journey through drama, delicacy and virtuosity" Gramophone Award Finalist 2026 |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony no.1 / Symphonic Dances Sinfonia of London, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/May/2025 ] "The hand-picked players of his Sinfonia of London are thrilling in [the] big moments, a relatively small ensemble conjuring the heftiest sonorities." Gramophone Award Nomination 2026 - Orchestral |
BELA BARTOK / PAUL BEN-AIM / GEORGE ENESCU / EUGENE YSAYE / BERND ALOIS
Sueye Park: Echoes of Exile Sueye Park (violin) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 17/Oct/2025 ] "If we needed any further proof that Sueye Park's intellectual programming muscles as are as strongly supple as her physical ones, her fifth album for BIS, for solo violin, firmly settles it." Gramophone Award Finalist 2026 Instrumental |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Streichquartette op. 51 Zehetmair Quartett [ ECM New Series / CD - released 17/Oct/2025 ] "It's rare to come across truly revelatory performances of such oft-recorded repertory, but that's what the Zehetmair Quartet have given us here." Gramophone Award Nomination 2026 |
ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV / MIKHAIL GLINKA / NIKOLAI MEDTNER / SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Forgotten Melodies: Glinka, Glazunov, Rachmaninov, Medtner Alexander Malofeev (piano) [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] "For all of Malofeev's outsize dynamics, bombdropping bass accents and pulverising chords, he never bangs...Needless to say, an auspicious debut." Gramophone Award Finalist - Piano |
WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 / Orb and Sceptre City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Kazuki Yama [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 6/Mar/2026 ] "Orb and Sceptre makes a cracking curtain-raiser...the Second Symphony represents another unbridled success, the CBSO sounding excitingly up for the task in a reading of tangible conviction and splendid impetus." Gramophone Award Nomination 2026 |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty / Children's Album / Piano Sonata, Op. 80 / Theme and Variations, Op. 19/6 Daniil Trifonov (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 2/Jan/2026 ] "With all due respect to Mikhail Pletnev's excellent recording of the Album for the Young, Op 39, Trifonov now claims reference-version status." Gramophone Award Nomination 2026 |
CAGE /·HAMELIN / MARTIRANO / OSWALD / WOLPE / WYNER / ZAPPA
Found Objects / Sound Objects Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Oct/2025 ] " In short, 'Found Objects / Sound Objects' may be Hamelin's most uncompromising, most personal and most interesting release to date." Gramophone Editor's Choice 2026 - Piano |
ANTONIN DVORAK / FLORENCE PRICE
Dvořák & Price: Piano Quintets Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ] "With recorded sound that's at once detailed and atmospheric, this new Hyperion release is pure pleasure in every respect." Gramophone Award Nomination 2026 - Chamber |
