Nashville Symphony Orchestra
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Special offer. Jennifer Higdon: All Things Majestic
RecommendedRoberto Díaz (viola), James Button (oboe)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
[All Things Majestic] The piece conveys a marvellous sense of wonder in the vastness and minutiae of the natural world, from the soaring brass chorales of 'Teton Ridge' to the raindrop delicacy... —
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Classical Compendium
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Special offer. American Classics - Amy Beach
RecommendedAlan Feinberg (piano)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Schermerhorn
Composed in 1898-9, Amy Beach's ambitious, singularly impressive Piano Concerto is at long last coming in from the cold. An expansively rhetorical Allegro moderato launches the work before a... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2003, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
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Special offer. Michael Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway, American Gothic & Once upon a Castle (Live)
RecommendedZuill Bailey (cello) & Paul Jacobs (organ)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
Strikingly impressive performances of wittily crafted and accessible contemporary large-scale orchestral scores. —
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Compendium
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Classical Album of the Year
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Special offer. Terry Riley: The Palmian Chord Ryddle & At the Royal Majestic
Tracy Silverman (electric violin), Todd Wilson (organ)
Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero
The impression given is of a mercurial improvisation by Silverman, an ideal narrator for what amounts to a kaleidoscopic musical autobiography…Riley revels in his gargantuan resources, particularly... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, Concerto Choice
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Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras Nos. 1-9
RecommendedRosana Lamosa (soprano), José Feghali (piano)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Andrew Mogrelia
My recommendation for the 'complete orchestral' set remains with Bátiz (López-Cobos an alternative for Nos 2, 4 and 8) but this is nonetheless a fitting tribute to Schermerhorn, who died this... —
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Building a Library, June 2007, Highly Recommended
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Paulus: Three Places of Enlightenment, Veil of Tears & Grand Concerto
RecommendedJun Iwasaki (violin), Carolyn Wann Bailey (violin), Daniel Reinker (viola), Anthony LaMarchina (cello), Nathan J. Laube (organ)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Classical Compendium
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Jonathan Leshnoff: Symphony No. 4 'Heichalos'
RecommendedJason Vieaux (guitar), The Violins of Hope, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Compendium
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Piazzolla: Sinfonía Buenos Aires
Daniel Binelli (bandoneón), Tianwa Yang (violin)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
The arrangement played on this new recording...accentuates Piazzolla's admiration for Vivaldi more than most: classical-style scoring notably devolves into Concerto Grosso textures in Spring... —
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Special offer. Richard Danielpour: Songs of Solitude & War Songs
RecommendedThomas Hampson (baritone)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
Both of these cycles were written for Thomas Hampson, who sings them magnificently. —
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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