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Their reading of Webern's Five Pieces here bears comparison with the finest on record...Throughout, the performance left me admiring anew the originality and concentration of Webern's score. —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2026, Editor's Choice
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Marsalis's music always has a sharp dramatic sense, and the Calidore seize on that in all three movements. John Williams arranged music from his film Lincoln at the Calidore's request, and the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th February 2026
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At its best, the solo voices and the whipsmart direction of Cut Circle are nothing short of marvellous. The Vultum tuum cycle has the finest singing in this repertory that I've heard in a while...It... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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Throughout, he returns you to the concentration and density that Brahms packs into these miraculous creations. Even if you have a current favourite among existing recordings, this commands attention. —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2026, Editor's Choice
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It’s very clear that he’s playing these pieces not to prove anything, not to make any cosmic statement. Does this album reveal for the first time the true essence of these six pieces in a way... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd January 2026
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As soon as Toscano’s forces launched themselves upon the eight-part polyphony of Francesco Garro’s Parce mihi, Domine, I knew I was in seventh heaven...Sink into the music’s beauties and forget... —
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The best of today's specialist vocal ensembles, whether active in period practice or devoted to the new, can more or less guarantee delivery of the required pitches though vibrato-lite accuracy... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2026, Editor's Choice
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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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New. East Meets West
Aftab Darvishi - Unsuk Chin - Jörg Widmann - Thomas Adès
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Nancy Zhou, Ye-Eun Choi, Muriel Razavi, Pablo Ferrández (cello), Stephanie Gonley (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Adès
Likoo – the title refers to a folk poetry genre rooted in the desert life of Iran – is a sinuous lament, written before the recent outbreak of war but now unbearably poignant….[in the Adès]... —
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New. Franck, Boulanger, Debussy & Vermeulen: Works for Cello and Piano
Lidy Blijdorp (cello), Tobias Borsboom (piano)
By turns dramatic and ethereal, Blijdorp insists you listen...The cello arrangement of Franck's Violin Sonata is tender, passionate and reflective. Adorned with consummate virtuosity, this performance... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2026, Chamber Choice
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