Dawn Upshaw
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Gorecki: Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'
RecommendedDawn Upshaw (soprano)
London Sinfonietta, David Zinman
Górecki's Third Symphony has become legend. Composed in 1976, it's always had its champions and admirers within the contemporary music world, but in 1993 it found a new audience of undreamt-of... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th November 2010
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Caroline Shaw: Narrow Sea
RecommendedDawn Upshaw (vocals, percussion), Gilbert Kalish (piano), Sō Percussion (drums, marimba, vibraphone, percussion, synthesizer, organ, piano), Caroline Shaw (organ)
Shaw continues to make waves with her imaginative and expressive works that glide effortlessly between genres. This short but exquisite disc showcases Shaw’s 2017 Narrow Sea, recorded by its... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Winner - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 32nd Awards (1989), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Special offer. Saariaho: La Passion de Simone
Dominique Blanc (narrator), Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
Tapiola Chamber Choir, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Upshaw's always seems the perfect voice and sensibility for Saariaho's music; and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Saariaho's colleague from their student days, is an intensely engaged and sympathetic director... —
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Golijov: Ainadamar
Margarita Xirgu (Dawn Upshaw), Federico García Lorca (Kelley O'Connor), Nuria (Jessica Rivera), Ruiz Alonso (Arresting Officer) (Jesus Montoya), José Tripaldi (Guard) (Eduardo Chama), A Teacher (Sean Mayer), A Bullfighter (Robb Askolf), Two Voices (Anne-Carolyn Bird) & Sindhu Chandrasekaran
Atlanta...
Ainadamar has enjoyed success on stage but here proves a real 'opera of the imagination'. It is dazzlingly presented: guitars and percussion, Jesús Montoya's flamenco improvisations and Kelley... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2006, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne, etc.
RecommendedDawn Upshaw (soprano)
Orchestra de L'Opera National de Lyon, Kent Nagano
Upshaw sings with a special blend of tenderness and character...She is persuasively accompanied by Kent Nagano and the Lyon Opera Orchestra with their distinctively French colouring. —
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Building a Library, March 2003, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2001, Disc of the Month
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The Girl With Orange Lips
RecommendedDawn Upshaw, Nardo Poy (viola), Lynn Chang (violin), Bruce Coppock (cello), Barbara Allen (harp), Fenwick Smith (flute), Robert Rinehart (violin), Sarah Clarke (viola), Thomas Hill (clarinet), Randall Hodgkinson (piano), Laura Gilbert (flute), Carmit Zori (violin), Eric Bartlett (cello), Mitchell...
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Grammy Awards, 34th Awards (1991), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Adams, J: El Niño
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Dawn Upshaw, Willard White
Theatre of Voices, London Voices, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano
John Adams's nativity oratorio is a winner, a very palpable hit - an intelligent, emotional and sometimes magical re-telling of the old, old story from a new perspective...you can tell the cast... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2001, Editor's Choice
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Golijov - Ayre
Dawn Upshaw (soprano), with Tara O'Connor (flute), Toff palmer (clarinet), Lyova (viola), Erik Friedlander (cello), Bridget Kibbey (harp), Eric Poland, Gordon Gottlieb (percussion)
with The Andalucian Dogs
Upshaw's performance of the Berio set falls short of Berberian's on the 1968 RCA recording, which was sharper and more vivacious, but she fully makes up for it on Ayre, where she equals the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2006, Editor's Choice
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