CD, Poulenc (composer)
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RecommendedFederico Mompou, Maurice Ravel, Manuel de Falla, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc
Sean Shibe (guitar)
Vivid, beguiling and intensely intimate, [Mompou's] Suite compostelana offers both blueprint and guide for the musical-emotional pilgrimage signalled by the album title...In Shibe’s hands it... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th August 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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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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Fresh-faced charm pervades this astutely curated disc…Far from a marriage of convenience, Lewis and Osborne are long-standing duo partners, complementing each other perfectly in lightly-worn... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th March 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Piano
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
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Deux
RecommendedMusic for Violin & Piano by Bartók, Poulenc & Ravel
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Polina Leschenko (piano)
Playing of such consummate ease combined with involvement and attention to detail...Simply, this is one of the finest, most musically sensitive recordings to have come my way for some time,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th February 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Chamber
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Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos & Piano Concerto
RecommendedEric Le Sage (piano), Frank Braley (piano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Leige, Stéphane Denève
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Building a Library, May 2019, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, June 2023, Also Recommended (Piano Concerto in C sharp minor)
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Poulenc: La Voix Humaine
RecommendedVéronique Gens (soprano), Orchestre National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch
More than ably supported by the Orchestre National de Lille under Alexandre Bloch, Gens spans the gamut of emotions, puzzled, hopeful, coquettish, desperately pleading, def iant and, ultimately,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th January 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Régine Crespin: Shéhérazade
RecommendedRégine Crespin (soprano)
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
Sumptuous of tone, supremely sensitive, Crespin was born to illuminate the art of French song. Whether floating the seductive allure of Ravel or revelling in the wit of Poulenc these recordings... —
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Building a Library, September 2007, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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[The playing] can affectionately embrace the whimsical to the manner born, but equally bristles with spellbinding virtuosity, compelling insight and crests a lifeforce carrying all before it. —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Chamber
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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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