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Bolivian Baroque Volume 3
Music for the Mission and La Plata
James Johnstone (organ)
Florilegium, Arakaendar Bolivia Choir, Ashley Solomon
The sound is captivating - wholly unmannered, fresh-toned and inexhaustibly animated...Their commitment, enjoyment and communication is palpable...the music itself is totally absorbing from... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2010, Disc of the month
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Building a Library, May 2010, First Choice (as SACD)
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Iván Fischer conducts Borodin & Tchaikovsky
RecommendedBudapest Festival Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, Iván Fischer
Fischer once again doesn’t disappoint; indeed, he’s brought to light elements of this work, in particular textural detaileven during the loud brass-led sections, the strings can still be heard... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd September 2016
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Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Amaryllis Dieltiens (soprano), Siri Karoline Thornhill (soprano), Tim Mead (alto), Matthew White (alto), Gerd Türk (tenor - Evangelist), Julian Podger (tenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass) & Sebastian Noack (bass)
The Netherlands Bach Society with Kampen Boys Choir, Jos...
He has two quartets of soloists which also provide Choirs 1 and 2, but adds eight more voices to the first choir so the double choruses are unbalanced, 12 singers pitted against four. It's astonishingly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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The pulse is discreetly shunted towards the background, utterly charming the senses with an often delicate mechanism of light pizzicato strings and mallet percussion...This performance deals... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Rodrigo: Concierto Madrigal, Tonadilla & arrangements for two guitars
Katona Twins (guitar duo)
Rotterdams Chamber Orchestra, Conrad van Alphen
The best of the established guitar duos have consisted of players who are/were either married or blood-related – favourable conditions for in-built empathy. Presti-Lagoya set the pace in the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2002, Editor's Choice
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Virtuosismo - Paganini & Vieuxtemps
Ning Feng (violin)
Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, Rossen Milanov
If you had never heard these works before you would gasp in amazement at such fearless, sure-fingered playing from the soloist…he executes all difficulties without apparently breaking sweat…And... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 & Walton: Serenade for Strings
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
Arrangements for string orchestra of works originally written for string quartet are not uncommon, especially in the cases of Beethoven and Schubert… But in the amazing scherzo, with its huge... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2006, Disc of the Month
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