Building a Library, Building A Library, September 2025
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This is a delight: sprightly, well-articulated playing which bounds with vitality. The Archduke starts in an almost improvisatory spirit...The energy of the performance is driven by the pianist... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, May 2025, Recommended Recording
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Building A Library, September 2025, Recommended Recording (Archduke)
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Strauss: Ariadne on Naxos
RecommendedSung in English: translation by Christopher Cowell
Christine Brewer (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Robert Dean Smith (Bacchus/The Tenor), Alice Coote (Composer), Gillian Keith (Zerbinetta), Stephen Fry (Major-Domo), Alan Opie (Music Master), John Graham-Hall (Dancing Master/Scaramuccio), Roderick Williams (Harlequin), Matthew Rose (Truffaldino), Wynne Evans...
Brewer's luscious Ariadne had to be captured on disc...There's another essential performance from Alice Coote...with unflinchingly full top notes that few other genuine mezzos possess...I've... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Opera Choice
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Building A Library, September 2025, Recommended Recording
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Mozart & Nielsen: Clarinet Concertos
RecommendedJulian Bliss (clarinet)
Royal Northern Sinfonia, Mario Venzago
Bliss responds to the work's mercurial switches of mood with a wide range of colour and articulation, and meets its considerable technical challenges with seemingly offhand virtuosity. He is... —
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Building a Library, March 2017, First Choice
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Building A Library, September 2025, Recommended Recording (Mozart)
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