Sylvia McNair
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Mozart: Idomeneo, K366
RecommendedAnthony Rolfe Johnson (Idomeneo), Anne Sofie von Otter (Idamantes), Sylvia McNair (Ilia), Hillevi Martinpelto (Elettra), Nigel Robson (Arbace)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Here's a performance that blends this conductor's love of scholarship with an unerring sense of theatre. The English Baroque Soloists are magnificent in a work that puts the chorus only one... —
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Building a Library, June 2007, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Winner - Opera
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
RecommendedCheryl Studer, Sylvia McNair, Andrea Rost (sopranos), Anne Sofie von Otter, Rosemarie Lang (mezzos), Peter Seiffert (tenor), Bryn Terfel & Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass-baritones)
Rundfunkchor Berlin, Prager Philharmonischer Chor, Tölzer Knabenchor & Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
There's a wealth of outstanding contributions from singers such as Cheryl Studer, Anne Sofie von Otter, Peter Seiffert, and Bryn Terfel, and the choral singing is suitably monumental. —
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Building a Library, November 2011, First Choice
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Building A Library, September 2023, Recommended Recording
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Handel Gold
RecommendedKiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Cecilia Bartoli, Plácido Domingo, Joan Sutherland, Anne Sofie von Otter, Luciano Pavarotti, Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, Joyce DiDonato, Russell Oberlin, Nigel Robson, Kathleen Ferrier, Bryn Terfel, Janet Baker, Magdalena Kozena, Grace...
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
Sylvia McNair, Carolyn Watkinson, Francisco Araiza, Robert Lloyd
The Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
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Mozart: Coronation Mass & Haydn: Paukenmesse
Sylvia McNair (soprano), Delores Ziegler (mezzo), Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor), Andreas Schmidt (baritone)
Berliner Philharmoniker, RIAS-Kammerchor, James Levine
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 (highlights)
Sylvia McNair (Susanna), Lucio Gallo (Figaro), Cheryl Studer (Countess), Boje Skovhus (Count), Cecilia Bartoli (Cherubino)
Konzertvereinigung, Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
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Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621
(complete opera)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Sylvia McNair, Julia Varady, Catherine Robbin, Cornelius Hauptmann
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
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Haydn: The Creation
Recommended(sung in German)
Sylvia McNair, Donna Brown, Michael Schade, Gerald Finley & Rodney Gilfry
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
With Gardiner's first down-beat it's obvious that Chaos's days are numbered.
Not that 'days' (strictly speaking) are in question till the mighty words have been spoken, and then, in this performance,... —Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Choral
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Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien
RecommendedSylvia McNair (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Nathalie Stutzmann (mezzo-soprano), Leslie Caron (narrator)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Engineering
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Amadeus
RecommendedAldo Baldin (artist), Agnes Baltsa (artist), Iona Brown (chorus conductor), John Constable (artist), Catherine Denly (artist), Barbara Hendricks (artist), Neil Jenkins (artist), Donald Maxwell (artist), John McCarthy (chorus conductor), Original Cast (artist), Felicity Palmer (artist), Cathryn Pope...
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Grammy Awards, 27th Awards (1984), Classical Album of the Year
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