Pentatone - up to 40% off
Until 21st August 2024, we are offering up to 40% off Pentatone titles, including CD, SACD, Vinyl and Downloads.
Pentatone, Lawrence Foster (conductor)
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Lawrence Foster conducts Bartók, Kodály & Ligeti Mihaela Costea (violin), Esther Georgie (clarinet), Cyril Dupuy (cimbalom), Jonathan Luxton & Kenneth Best (natural horns)
Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lawrence Foster
As a leading interpreter of the music of Enescu, it's hardly surprising that Lawrence Foster should feel such a strong empathy with the Ligeti, and he delivers a committed performance with the... — More…
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Martinů: Double Concertos for Violin and Piano RecommendedMomo & Mari Kodama (piano), Sarah & Deborah Nemtanu (violin), Magali Demesse (viola), Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, Lawrence Foster
The biggest challenge here is the Concerto for Two Pianos…the Kodama sisters’ approach with Lawrence Foster and the very fine Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra (who knew?) is less mellow, more... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Mephistopheles And Other Bad Guys Kevin Short (bass-baritone)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, Lawrence Foster
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Remembering Tebaldi Melody Moore (soprano), Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Foster
Does Moore sound like Tebaldi? Not exactly: a track-by-track comparison reveals subtle differences in timbre and interpretation. But this is an act of homage, not impersonation, and Tebaldi’s... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Richard Strauss: 'Aber der Richtige' Violin Concerto & Miniatures
Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Foster
Steinbacher is predictably eloquent [in the song arrangements], the playing classy. But the violin itself struggles to project in what are already string-heavy orchestrations, at a tessitura... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2018
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...if you’re looking for really good, up-to-date, modern instrument performances in state-of-art sound, this fits the bill. There’s no going wrong with this one. Very strongly recommended. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly Melody Moore (Butterfly), Stefano Secco (Pinkerton), Elisabeth Kulman (Suzuki), Lester Lynch (Sharpless), Coro & Orquestra Gulbenkian, Lawrence Foster
In this new recording, the opera’s symphonic quality is emphasised to the max by conductor Lawrence Foster. Much of the orchestral playing, flatteringly recorded, is voluptuous – shimmeringly... — More…
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A Certain Slant of Light Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson
Lisa Delan (soprano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, Lawrence Foster
[Tilson Thomas’s] spacious text-setting and assured, imaginative orchestrations compellingly evoke the oblique, revelatory quality of Dickinson’s verse. Lisa Delan, a committed champion of American... — More…
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..the glowing sophistication of these notable readings carries its own special kind of authority”. Julian Haylock, IRR. “I thoroughly enjoyed this CD and would be happy to return to it”. — More…
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