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This is a set that takes its seat confidently at the top table; and in places is touched with genius. Underpinning Lim's approach is a playfulness that animates even the most arcane examples... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th February 2026
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2026, Instrumental Choice
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It's all wonderfully done, as one might expect. Wilson, who made his operatic debut with Madama Butterfly at Glyndebourne in 2016, is an excellent Puccinian, conducting with a mix of passion... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th March 2026
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
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New. Shostakovich: Violin Concertos
RecommendedAlina Ibragimova (violin), State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov', Vladimir Jurowski
Ibragimova is the latest to make you think you’ve never heard [the First Concerto] played better, and her intense relationship with Vladimir Jurowski and the current incarnation of Yevgeny Svetlanov’s... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th May 2020
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Record Review, 6th June 2020, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Winner - Concerto
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New. JS Bach: Johannes-Passion
RecommendedJulian Prégardien (Evangelist), Huw Montague Rendall (Jesus), Ying Fang (soprano), Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Etienne Bazola (baritone), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
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... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th March 2026
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Recording of the Month
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New. Walton: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Orb and Sceptre
RecommendedCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada
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... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th March 2026
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
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A completely new and inspiring benchmark for this unique tour de force. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Instrumental Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2007, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Record Review, December 2007, Listeners' Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2007, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Instrumental
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New. Holst: The Planets – Bax: Tintagel
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Tenebrae, Antonio Pappano
It takes about two seconds to notice that this is a performance full of vivid detail. It's fascinating how Pappano paces 'Mars' in terms of its dramatic build-up – he doesn't just ask the orchestra... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th March 2026
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What impresses above all in this recording is the deep inwardness of the playing. This is not one single performance; it's the distillation of a lifetime's performances of these seminal works.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2026, Recording of the Month
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What we get here, for the most part, is slightly introverted playing that gives preference to the lyrical over the rhythmic, the gracious over the rambunctious, the tender over the inflamed...Tonal... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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the result is coherently put together, with Hughes's resourceful vocal imagination and use of tone, plus the subtlety and careful placement of her decorations, drawing the ear again and again. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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New. Handel: Messiah
Hilary Cronin (soprano), Helen Charlston (mezzo), Alexander Chance, Nathan Mercieca (countertenors), Guy Cutting (tenor), Frederick Long, Edward Grint (bass-baritones), Irish Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Peter Whelan
This fresh and exhilarating Dublin performance dispels decades of overblown Messiah baggage. A vivid and captivating recording, highly recommended. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
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New. Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
David Butt Philip (Gerontius), Karen Cargill (Angel), Roland Wood (Priest/Angel of the Agony), Huddersfield Choral Society, Orchestra of Opera North, Martyn Brabbins
The combination of clarity and balance of this Hyperion recording, revealing details one often bypasses or simply does not hear...along with the vibrant choral dimension, is a very persuasive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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Măcelaru gives these Adagio outer sections with quasi-Brucknerian fervour...The Orchestre National de France play with commitment and polish for Măcelaru, and Warner Classics' recording is warm. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th February 2026
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What I really like about Järvi's Mahler is his acute understanding of the musical language and most especially its volatility. He's really in sync with those dramatic volte-faces, be they driven... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
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What's never in doubt is this music's strange power and magnificence, qualities amplified by the polish and dedication of Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping orchestra, a team that has spent... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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New. Richard Strauss: Elektra
RecommendedIréne Theorin (Elektra), Jennifer Holloway (Chrysothemis), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Klytemnestra), Nikolai Schukoff (Aegisth), Iain Paterson (Orest), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choirs, Edward Gardner
As in Salome, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra play wonderfully for Edward Gardner, who - again as in Salome - conducts the opera in one, long paragraph. The tension hardly lets up, even in... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th February 2026
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New. Johann Ludwig Bach: The Leipzig Cantatas
Sebastian Myrus, Richard Resch (tenor), William Shelton, Flore Van Meerssche, Carine Tinney (soprano), Michael Mogl, Tabea Mitterbauer, Anna-Lena Elbert, Micha Matthäus, Tobias Knaus, Capella Sollertia, Johanna Soller
This seminal project is a revelation in the sheer weight of first-rate 'Bach', previously under the radar, and now in premiere recordings delivered with exceptional attentiveness and care. —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2026, Recording of the Month
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New. Mozart: Sonatas For Fortepiano & Violin, Vol. 4
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano)
As early reviews pointed out, these sonatas are true democratic duos. One of the many delights here is the instinctive ease with which the players slip from protagonist to accompanist, and back... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
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For all of Malofeev's outsize dynamics, bombdropping bass accents and pulverising chords, he never bangs...Needless to say, an auspicious debut. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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There's no doubt that former chorister Muhly not only understands his forces but is excited and energised by their expressive potential, which he tests and teases to wonderfully contrasting... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
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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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New. Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5 ‘Spring’, 9 ‘Kreutzer’ & 3
Alena Baeva (violin), Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Tempos never linger, contributing to a mesmerically shaded reading: vernal this Spring may be but the listener is ever aware of the likelihood of a sudden storm that blows away as swiftly as... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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Davidsen’s soprano sounds fresh, gleaming and direct, her top-most notes silvery. She knows how to ensure nothing gets overblown – and how to get so close to the edge that the effect is thrilling,... —
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New. Hans Zender: Schubert's Winterreise
RecommendedA Composed Interpretation
Allan Clayton (tenor), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Nicholas Collin and the Aurora Orchestra rise to Zender's challenges handsomely...Allan Clayton is one of a handful of tenors with the vocal dexterity to take on Zender's reworking of Schubert's... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th January 2026
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Rumon Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic do bustle very well, and the Chandos microphones prove particularly good at pinpointing details like a tuba's lugubrious waddle. —
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New. Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Raphaël Jouan (cello)
Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est, David Reiland
Technically it is flawless, the orchestra offering an impressive partnership. Yet the overall impact is curiously detached. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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Järvi makes symphonic sense of the structure of the Finnish composer's concerto for pre-recorded birdsong and orchestra in a performance that builds real momentum. —
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New. Light Out Of Darkness
Choral Music by Elgar
Callum Knox (organ), William Vann (director)
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
this is an excellent introduction to Elgar's choral works. At times, such as in the gorgeous "The Spirit of the Lord', the relatively small choral forces are spread a little thin, but this is... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2026, Editor's Choice
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New. Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 12
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Andrea Nemecz (piano), Rose McLachlan (piano), Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy
Bavouzet plays a modern Yamaha CFX, yet the rhetoric is unshowily Classical: pedalling kept lean, phrase-ends released, ornaments articulated like speech. Gábor Takács-Nagy draws the Manchester... —
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The performance [of the Quartet] by the Utrecht Quartet is wonderfully accomplished, and especially moving in the third-movement Larghetto...this is a valuable and distinguished addition to... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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