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Special offer. Humperdinck: Hänsel & Gretel
RecommendedRebecca Evans (Gretel), Jennifer Larmore (Hansel), Jane Henschel (The Witch), Rosalind Plowright (Gertrude), Robert Hayward (Peter), Sarah Tynan (Dew Fairy), Diana Montague (Sandman), Sarah Coppen (Cuckoo)
Philharmonia Orchestra & New London Children’s Choir, Sir Charles Mackerras
What distinguishes this version is primarily the vigorous and large-scale conducting of Sir Charles Mackerras. —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2007, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2007, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Opera Recording
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Engelbert Humperdinck: The Miracle
Josette Micheler (mezzo-soprano), Sophie Klußmann (soprano), Rundfunkchor Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Steffen Tast
Though Humperdinck's mastery with miracle music has been usurped by Hollywood, the music feels more familiar than clichéd, partly due to echoes from Hansel and Gretel. —
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Special offer. My Christmas
RecommendedDiana Damrau (soprano), Matthias Höfs (trumpet), NDR Radiophilharmonie, Knabenchor Hanover, Richard Whilds, Riccardo Minasi
Damrau’s two-disc My Christmas ticks some of the same boxes as the legendary Elisabeth Schwarzkopf’s Christmas Album, though Damrau seems more naturally at home in the seasonal idiom...Opinions... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year
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Engelbert Humperdinck: Der Blaue Vogel (The Blue Bird)
Incidental Music After A Christmas Fairy Tale By Maurice Maeterlinck)
Juri Tetzlaff, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Steffen Tast
The festive fairytale by Maeterlinck for which Humperdinck wrote this incidental music is read here in German, so you may want to find a translation online. Or simply head to Disc 2, where the... —
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The Record of Singing – The Very Best of Volumes 1-4
RecommendedFrom 1899 to the end of the 78 era: 1899-1952
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Historical
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Reissue
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Gramophone Awards, 1977, Winner - Historical
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Urlicht: Songs of Death and Resurrection
Samuel Hasselhorn (baritone), Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz
This is lushly upholstered weltschmerz in the high Late Romantic manner and essentially Viennese which is fitting for an artist who launched his career at the city’s Staatsoper...A baritone... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Karg’s angelic soprano – light and buttery – is perfect for this charming repertoire and she does it full justice in winning performances —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd December 2021
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The Christmas Album
RecommendedBenjamin Appl (soloist), Christian Heiss, Johannes Berger, Hans Berger, Ilias Grau (soloist), Edeltraud Appl, Regensburger Domspatzen, Munich Radio Orchestra, Florian Helgath
It turns out that Appl’s contribution to the season of goodwill is as thoughtfully assembled as one of his Lieder programmes, and performed with the same level of care. The Regensburg boys are... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th November 2024
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Albrecht Mayer & The King's Singers: Let It Snow
RecommendedAlbrecht Mayer (oboe)
The King’s Singers
More cheese than a Wensleydale-and-cranberry sandwich, then, but it’s all done with bags of panache and good humour – the perfect tree-dressing or present-wrapping soundtrack. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th December 2013
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Special offer. English Romantics and Transcriptions
Tobias Frank (at the Harrison & Harrison Organ at Ely Cathedral)
