Sasha Cooke
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Special offer. Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas
RecommendedSan Francisco Symphony, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Bay Brass, Isabel Leonard, Audra McDonald, New World Symphony, Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, John Wilson
For listeners whose musical lives have been inexorably shaped by MTT the conductor (and I count myself as one of those), perhaps it’s high time we should be giving MTT the composer the respect... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Special offer. Mason Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
RecommendedEdwards Parks (Steve Jobs), Garrett Sorenson (Steve Wozniak), Sasha Cooke (Laurene), Jessica E. Jones (Chrisann), Wei Wu (Kōbun Chino Otogawa); Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, Michael Christie
Bates’s vocal writing can be taxing, though its challenges are all wonderfully met in the recording…Edward Parks gives a terrific central performance as Jobs, capturing both this charisma and... —
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Opera Recording
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[Sasha Cooke’s] even, expressive voice is equal to all technical demands and rises to tremendous intensity for ‘Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass’ while offering a deeply considered account of... —
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Special offer. Violins of Hope
RecommendedLive at Kohl Mansion - Heggie, Schubert & Mendelssohn
Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Daniel Hope (violin), Sean Mori (violin), Kay Stern (violin), Dawn Harms (violin), Patricia Heller (viola), Emil Miland (cello)
Heggie accomplishes the task with incontestable fluency, opting for a musical language that marries the contours of Jewish melody with popular idioms…Whether the music penetrates fully the horror... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th February 2021
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Michael Tilson Thomas: From the Diary of Anne Frank & Meditation on Rilke
RecommendedSasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Ryan McKinny (bass-baritone), San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Winner - Best Classical Compendium
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Cooke tells these stories as if she had experienced them herself, imparting subtle yet significant changes of mood and character for each song. —
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8
Carolyn Sampson, Jacquelyn Wagner (sopranos), Sasha Cooke (mezzo), Jess Dandy (contralto), Barry Banks (tenor), Julian Orlishausen (baritone), Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Minnesota Chorale, National Lutheran Choir, Minnesota Boychoir, Angelica Cantanti Youth Choir, Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo...
the trio of ‘penitent women’, dynamically careful, is a real beauty…The amateur choruses catch the fervour of the event, and a seraphic trumpet distinguishes the final massive optimism. —
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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (Live)
Piero Pretti (Turiddu), Anita Rachvelishvili (Santuzza), Ronnita Miller (Lucia), Luca Salsi (Alfio), Sasha Cooke (Lola), Alessandra Visconti
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Riccardo Muti
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Yarlung Records: 10th Anniversary
Nigel Armstrong (violin), Petteri Iivonen (violin), Margaret Batjer (violin), David Shostac (flute), Brook Ellen Schoenwald (flute), Frédéric Rosselet (cello), Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano), Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Antonio Lysy (cello), Pablo Motta (double bass), Jason Yoshida (guitar),...
