CD, Schumann (composer)
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The persistent ‘Baroque specialist’ label hardly sums up this distinguished French soprano. With her distinctively radiant, secure tone and cut-crystal upper range, her repertoire has always... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Mélodie
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Nouveauté
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Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien are well established as a formidable, finely poetic duo, and this set of performances shows them at their vibrant best. On a purely practical level, the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Chamber
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2025, Musique de Chambre
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Chamber
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There’s a marble-statue nobility to his playing, a sense of his powerful technique being harnessed to expression, and a seriousness-of-purpose…To end, we hear three of Brahms’s Intermezzos:... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th March 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Piano
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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A Lionel Tertis Celebration
RecommendedTimothy Ridout (viola), Frank Dupree (piano), James Baillieu (piano)
From imposing sonatas to salon bonbons, these recordings constitute a deft salute not just to Tertis the man and multifaceted musician, but also to an enduring legacy which lives on in distinguished... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Grieg & Schumann - Piano Concertos
RecommendedLeif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
faster, fiercer, yet more freely expressive than his 1990 version. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2003, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Concerto
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Throughout, the playing is thoughtful and full of poetry, recorded in intimate sound. There’s an elusive quality to this multifaceted programme, for sure, but on balance it repays attentive... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Lieder
RecommendedFatma Said (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Joseph Middleton (piano), Huw Montague Rendall (baritone), Sabine Meyer (clarinet), Anneleen Lenaerts (harp), Quatuor Arod
listeners who fear a trudge through long-flattened terrain need not worry. This approach reveals new features in the landscape...Said’s voice is recorded to maximise intimacy of sound. She takes... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th February 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Hewitt’s spacious, uncluttered approach revels unashamedly in the pianism while still letting the original songs sing. The real treats are Hewitt’s own arrangements...In all, this beautifully... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Instrumental Choice
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Authenticity is present in an Érard piano, date unspecified, and a Stradivarius violin, the ‘Davidoff’, which has been held in the Paris Conservatoire museum since 1887, when one of the first... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Schumann: Kinderszenen & Waldszenen & Janáček: On the overgrown path I
RecommendedMarc-André Hamelin (piano)
Hamelin has already made several fine recordings of Schumann's piano music, focusing on big virtuoso pieces. He proves to be equally adept at exploring the more intimate side of the composer's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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