Scottish Chamber Orchestra
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 25 & 26
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi (piano)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Piemontesi’s playing is mostly magnificent, with crystalline clarity, radiant tone and eloquent phrasing. In the fine and intriguing cadenzas, he shines with surety of purpose — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th August 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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Perhaps one of the most striking aspects of these performances is the sheer variety of colours and timbres Robin Ticciati manages to extract from the outstanding strings of the Scottish Chamber... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 24th March 2018, Recording of the Week
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Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1, Symphony & Gounod: Petite Symphonie
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, François Leleux
The SCO have a thrilling way with Bizet…[The Symphony] bubbles along with infectious delight in the SCO’s hands – I could listen to them playing this all day — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, Orchestral Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Mackerras doesn't short-change us on the tenderness and often painful lyricism… nor is he afraid to relax the tempo as a festive or belligerent motif gives way to a gentler one, with the strings…... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2008, Orchestral Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Disc of the Year & Orchestral Award Winner
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Building a Library, February 2020, Also Recommended
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Mozart - Symphonies Nos. 29, 31, 32, 35 & 36
RecommendedScottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
Clarity prevails, and animation. These are the kind of performances that make it difficult for the listener to sit still. One is impelled to pace or even dance around, to gesture and nod...when... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Orchestral
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Building a Library, October 2022, Also Recommended
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Handel Gold
RecommendedKiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Cecilia Bartoli, Plácido Domingo, Joan Sutherland, Anne Sofie von Otter, Luciano Pavarotti, Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, Joyce DiDonato, Russell Oberlin, Nigel Robson, Kathleen Ferrier, Bryn Terfel, Janet Baker, Magdalena Kozena, Grace...
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 19 & 27
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi (piano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Piemontesi pays avid attention to the tonal calibration of every note and phrase. Andrew Manze matches him by controlling the orchestral balance to a T and choosing tempos that suit the music... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Strauss: Ariadne on Naxos
Sung in English: translation by Christopher Cowell
Christine Brewer (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Robert Dean Smith (Bacchus/The Tenor), Alice Coote (Composer), Gillian Keith (Zerbinetta), Stephen Fry (Major-Domo), Alan Opie (Music Master), John Graham-Hall (Dancing Master/Scaramuccio), Roderick Williams (Harlequin), Matthew Rose (Truffaldino), Wynne Evans...
Brewer's luscious Ariadne had to be captured on disc...There's another essential performance from Alice Coote...with unflinchingly full top notes that few other genuine mezzos possess...I've... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Opera Choice
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True, she sails perilously close to over-sentimentalising the opening Romanza...but Fliter plays with grace and heartfelt sincerity - abetted by some lovely duetting with the SCO's bassoonist... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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