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Thomas Adès: Dante
RecommendedLos Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gustavo Dudamel
Adès takes Liszt’s legacy of demonic harmony and develops it further away some of the orchestral layers to reveal recorded voices from the congregation at the Great Ades Synagogue in Jerusalem,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st April 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, Orchestral Choice
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Winner - Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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There’s no doubting that [Shibe] is an artist blessed with grace to spare, and a roar that is fearsome – witness the opening section of Julia Wolfe’s LAD which screams into anguished life before... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Concept Album
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Selaocoe inhabits a captivating sphere of spontaneous, mercurial creativity...In Selaocoe’s hands the cello is a shape-shifter...Song is the dominant form: everything flows from his own extraordinary... — More…
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Songlines, Top of the World, November 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, Chamber Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Newcomer
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Classical Without Borders
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Charlston's mezzo is as dark and full-bodied as a good claret, and she offers highly expressive readings of the texts, plumbing their depths with cut-glass diction and a glorious range of colours... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Concept Album of the Year
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Maconchy, Lutyens & Wallen: Works for Piano and Orchestra RecommendedMartin Jones (piano), Rebeca Omordia (piano), BBC Concert Orchestra, John Andrews
All the pieces are premieres on disc – and they are discoveries you’ll want to hear many times again. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - World Premiere Recording (New Work)
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Premiere
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Even by their standards, the choir are on blindingly good form in Schnittke’s monumental Choir Concerto. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Choral Performance
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Musique chorale
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Choral
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The tracks for voice and piano are a highlight. Bullock’s performance of ‘City Called Heaven’, a traditional Black spiritual in an arrangement by Hall Johnson, is quite something...The jazz-based... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Record Review, 7th January 2023, Record of the Week
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year, Solo Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Young Talent of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Winner - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Vocal
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Ventris brings absolute technical assurance and a vivid sense of line...Among the many excellent more contemporary works, Amanda Feery’s Boreal s especially powerful...In all, beautifully performed... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Premiere
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John Luther Adams: Sila - The Breath of the World
RecommendedThe Crossing, JACK Quartet, University of Michigan Chamber Musicians, University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble
John Luther Adams’s music is like nobody else’s...57 minutes, the work’s gradual transformations in pitch and mood happen imperceptibly, moving from deeply sonorous rumbles to celestial shimmers.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Choral
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Unlike much contemporary music, Shaw’s compositions exemplify what Simon Rattle long ago said about John Adams’s essence – that there’s always the sense of ‘moving forward in space’…The sophistication... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Winner - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Chamber
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019)
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