Hi Res Download, Enescu (composer)
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Recorded in the warm, generous acoustic of Schloss Elmau, this meeting of two flagship quartets sounds less like a joint venture than eight players sharing a single imagination...Few octet recordings... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th January 2026
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Enescu: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 & Romanian Rhapsodies 1 & 2
Orchestre National de France, Cristian Măcelaru
It's quite a journey, as the languorous finale of the Third Symphony demonstrates (its huge forces include organ and chorus), and Mӑcelaru captures the visionary aspects of the score in an unquestionably... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Orchestral
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Roset's light lyric voice stretches high above the stave with a rapid fire coloratura that takes no prisoners, yet when she reaches for the vocal horizon in Koechlin's 'M'a dit Amour' her diction... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2026, Editor's Choice
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Few, if any, duos are better equipped to take on this mantle than Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich.Aimard’s exceptionally close association with Messiaen and Loriod goes back to... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Enescu: Octet for strings
RecommendedVilde Frang (violin), Erik Schumann (violin), Gabriel Le Magadure (violin), Roseanne Philippens (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), Lily Francis (viola), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Jan-Erik Gustavsson (cello)
Orchestre de Radio France, Mikko Franck
Frang rises to the works' passionate lyricism and dazzles in partnership with Mikko Franck and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2018, Concerto Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Concerto
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L’Aurore is far greater than the sum of its parts...The album takes its name from the first movement of Ysaÿe’s fifth solo sonata, a work dedicated to his friend and former pupil Mathieu Crickboom.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Instrumental Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Said treats every work on its own merits, in its own language. The personality and significance of each composer is subtly etched with remarkable skill...A gripping recital, tellingly designed... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Grażyna Bacewicz; Eugène Ysaÿe; George Enescu: Music For Strings
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
At its centre [the Bacewicz] is a searing slow movement, rich and haunting, but the rest of the work crackles with energy, and the Sinfonia of London (at times divided into 17 parts) under John... —
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Strangers in Paradise
Ravel, Enescu, Ysaÿe, Prokofiev
Diana Tishchenko (violin), Zoltán Fejérvári (piano)
I’m hearing a genuinely distinctive, individual voice which is far from eccentric. The disc opens with Ravel’s Second Violin Sonata, which instantly grabs attention with its beauty of tone,... —
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Diapason d’Or, December 2019, Découverte
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2019
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