Gramophone Awards, 2010
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The musical imagination of The Cardinall's Music does full justice to that of Byrd. The group's delivery is a sensual delight, as an individual singer's colours will flash up in polyphonic... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th October 2010
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Recording of the Year
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Special offer. Wagner: Götterdämmerung
RecommendedKatarina Dalayman (Brünnhilde), Lars Cleveman (Siegfried), Peter Coleman-Wright (Gunther), Attila Jun (Hagen), Nancy Gustafson (Gutrune), Susan Bickley (Waltraute), Andrew Shore (Alberich)
The Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
This is a beautifully paced performance - measured, poetic but dynamic. The orchestra responds superbly....Katarina Dalayman is one of the most appealing Brünnhildes on disc, Lars Cleveman a... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Opera Finalist
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Opera
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Adès: The Tempest
RecommendedSimon Keenlyside (Prospero), Kate Royal (Miranda), Toby Spence (Ferdinand), Ian Bostridge (Caliban), Cyndia Sieden (Ariel), Philip Langridge (Alonso), Donald Kaasch (Antonio), Jonathan Summers (Sebastian), David Condier (Trinculo), Stephen Richardson (Stefano), Graeme Danby (Gonzalo)
The Chorus...
…everyone reaches out to the purple passages when Adès touches something rich and strange. Those include the evolution of the young lovers' music from homages to midsummer Britten and Tippett... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2009, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Contemporary
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Grammy Awards, 56th Awards (2013), Best Opera Recording
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The performances… are typically neatly-pointed and vivacious. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Verdi: Requiem
RecommendedAnja Harteros (soprano), Sonia Ganassi (mezzo), Rolando Villazon (tenor), René Pape (bass)
Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Pappano's conducting maintains a firm control of his forces, showing a sense of drama that includes an awareness of the importance of some crucial moments of silence. Pappano's soloists are... —
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2009, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Choral Award Winner
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Special offer. Elgar: Violin Concerto
RecommendedThomas Zehetmair (violin), Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
Zehetmair...is able to marry impassioned purpose with appreciation of Elgar's complexity...Mark Elder's direction is stunning...there's a warm glow about the Hallé sound that adds an extra strand... —
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Building a Library, January 2012, First Choice
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Concerto
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Special offer. Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629
RecommendedLucy Crowe (Juno/Mystery), Claire Debono (Spring/First Fairy), Anna Devin (Second Fairy), Helen-Jane Howells (Eve), Carolyn Sampson (Night), Robert Burt (Mopsa), Sean Clayton (Summer), Ed Lyon (Secrecy/Adam), Adrian Ward (Autumn), Lukas Kargl (Phœbus), Desmond Barrit (Drunken Poet), Andrew Foster-Williams...
Jonathan Kent's joyous Glyndebourne production burst[s] with opulent stagecraft...Kent is abetted by William Christie in the pit, a man of the theatre down to his gainfully-employed fingertips...Altogether... —
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Building a Library, September 2011, First Choice (Blu-ray)
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, DVD Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2010, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - DVD Performance
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, DVD of the Year
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Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-10
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin) & Alexander Melnikov (piano)
…the most stimulating and fascinating accounts of the Beethoven violin sonatas I have heard in many years. Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov bring out the full quirkiness of the earlier... —
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Building a Library, October 2010, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Chamber
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…I cannot think of one (not even Fischer-Dieskau in his 1965 recording with Jörg Demus) that leads more faithfully to the cold comfort at its end. And when we get there in this performance,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th October 2009
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Thomas Hengelbrock conducts Zelenka, Bach & Lotti
RecommendedBalthasar Neumann Ensemble & Choir, Thomas Hengelbrock
The Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble and Choir perform with full-blooded tension; Hengelbrock makes the fullest possible use of the plangent oboes and pulsating string chords but also ensures that... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2010, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended
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