New and Future Releases
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New. Mozart: Requiem
RecommendedChadi Lazreq (treble), Ying Fang (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Alex Rosen (bass)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
As on the Presto Award-winning Libertà! back in 2019, Pichon presents compelling evidence that the seeds of Mozart’s mature masterpieces were sown in the composer’s extreme youth, and the results... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th October 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
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New. Boccherini: Music of the Angels
RecommendedCello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets
Steven Isserlis (cello), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
It’s a surprisingly chamber-oriented album, with even the two cello concertos inhabiting an astonishingly delicate, translucent sound-world. The first concerto makes a striking impression with... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st November 2024
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New. Contemplation
RecommendedHuw Montague Rendall (baritone), Opéra Orchestre Normandie Rouen, Ben Glassberg
The first thing one notices in this wide-ranging recital from rising baritone Huw Montague Rendall is his seriousness of purpose...There’s also top-rank work from the orchestra and conductor;... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2024, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
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In what would turn out to be his final recording, this album from the late Maurizio Pollini (who died earlier this year) gains an extra layer of poignancy from the fact that it involves a collaboration... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
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it’s always when Beethoven is at his most virile when Hamelin most excels, especially with sweeping runs up the keyboard or busy fugal complications — anything that needs flying fingers...there... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
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He uses the capabilities of the modern Steinway judiciously, maintaining some of the qualities of the spinet and harpsichord of Purcell’s time whilst using but not over-using the vast tonal... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th August 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
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Kantorow’s playing can be torrential but it’s never reckless; his sound can be full but his playing is often laced with delicacy; and because of his uncanny ability to balance inner lines, he... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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New. Haydn 2032, Vol. 16: The Surprise
Il Giardino Armonico, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini
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the Calidore Quartet are well up to all the challenges...Their account of the opening Allegro in the first‘ Razumovsky is both exhilaratingly assertive and also careful to maintain the clean... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2024, Recording of the Month
3 CDs
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New. Mozart: Requiem
RecommendedChadi Lazreq (treble), Ying Fang (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Alex Rosen (bass)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Pichon presents compelling evidence that the seeds of Mozart’s mature masterpieces were sown in the composer’s extreme youth, and the results are truly ear-opening...When the Mass proper gets... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th October 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
2 Vinyl Records
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