Ann Murray
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Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans, RV644
Ann Murray, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Susan Bickley, Sarah Connolly, Jean Rigby
King's Consort, Robert King
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Lili Boulanger - Faust et Hélène
RecommendedLynne Dawson (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Bonaventura Bottone (tenor), Neil MacKenzie (tenor), Jason Howard (bass)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus, BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier
This disc largely duplicates Mark Stringer's programme on the Timpani label mentioned above (inevitably, since in her mere 24 years of life Lili's output was limited). The performances here... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Choral
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Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
Lucia Popp (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor) & René Pape (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
Without doubt the heart of this performance resides in the Elysian stretches of a deeply poetic and extremely leisurely Adagio, most memorably the rich lower strings near the start of the first... —
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Schumann: The Complete Songs
RecommendedThe Lieder of Robert Schumann in chronological order
Juliane Banse, Edith Barlow, Katherine Broderick, Stella Doufexis, Felicity Lott, Geraldine McGreevy, Dorothea Röschmann, Kate Royal, Christine Schäfer, Lydia Teuscher (soprano), Daniela Lehner, Ann Murray, Leigh Woolf (mezzo-soprano), Ian Bostridge, Mark Padmore, Nicky Spence, Adrian Thompson, Adrian...
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Solo vocal
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Building a Library, October 2022, Also Recommended - Myrthen
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New. Nikolaus Harnoncourt & The Royal Concertgebouw: The Complete Teldec Recordings
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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Special offer. Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629
RecommendedAnn Murray, Lorna Anderson, Gillian Fisher, John Mark Ainsley, Michael Chance, Richard Suart, Ian Partridge, Michael George
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
The Fairy Queen hardly an 'opera' in the conventional sense: its musical virtues lie in the composer's uncanny ability to summon a discrete, potent atmosphere whose capacity to move the listener... —
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Building a Library, September 2011, First Choice (CD)
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Building a Library, February 2023, Also Recommended
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Fauré: The Complete Songs, Vol. 2
Malcolm Martineau (piano), John Chest (baritone), Janis Kelly (soprano), Lorna Anderson (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor), Ann Murray (mezzo), Nigel Cliffe (baritone), Thomas Oliemans (baritone), Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Another lovely evening in an imaginary salon…a plurality of voices evokes a gathering of friends taking turns…At the heart of the disc, Lorna Anderson’s stillness in Le secret is utterly entrancing,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Songs by Schubert’s friends and contemporaries
Eighty-one songs by forty composers who lived and worked during Schubert’s lifetime
Susan Gritton, Ann Murray, Stella Doufexis (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Gerald Finley (bass) & Graham Johnson (piano)
Abetted by Johnson's lucid pianism, the singers nicely judge the scale and character of their allotted songs. Susan Gritton, her timbre, richer and more flavoursome than a decade ago, is equally... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2006, Editor's Choice
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Duruflé: Requiem
RecommendedAnn Murray (mezzo soprano), Thomas Allen (baritone), Thomas Trotter (organ)
Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best
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Building a Library, November 2002, First Choice
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The Songs of Robert Schumann - Volume 9
Felicity Lott (soprano), Ann Murray (soprano), Graham Johson (piano)
In the piano pieces and songs alike, Johnson plays with luminous tone and a natural feeling for Schumannesque rubato. And as ever, his sleeve notes alone are worth the price of the disc —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2005, Editor's Choice
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