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Caroline Shaw: Narrow Sea
RecommendedDawn Upshaw (vocals, percussion), Gilbert Kalish (piano), Sō Percussion (drums, marimba, vibraphone, percussion, synthesizer, organ, piano), Caroline Shaw (organ)
Shaw continues to make waves with her imaginative and expressive works that glide effortlessly between genres. This short but exquisite disc showcases Shaw’s 2017 Narrow Sea, recorded by its... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Winner - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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In this second volume of Richard Goode's complete set of Bach Partitas there's the sense of a distinguished lineage, a tradition of Bach piano playing with a Classical-Romantic bent that reaches... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2003, Disc of the Month
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Honesty and a rounded humanity define these performances, rather than a strenuous striving for the infinite. Denk makes Ligeti's En suspens, an exercise in jazzy rubato, more tender and touching... —
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Building a Library, July 2013, Recommendation on modern piano
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, Instrumental Choice
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Gorecki: Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'
RecommendedDawn Upshaw (soprano)
London Sinfonietta, David Zinman
Górecki's Third Symphony has become legend. Composed in 1976, it's always had its champions and admirers within the contemporary music world, but in 1993 it found a new audience of undreamt-of... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th November 2010
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The rock-band sound world of 2x5 is certainly new. Reich's sense of proportion, his ability to change direction just at the right moment, is as sure as ever. And the Double Sextet contains one... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Editor's Choice
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The Blind Banister
RecommendedTimo Andres (piano), Inbal Segev (cello), Metropolis Ensemble, Andrew Cyr
Unsurprisingly perhaps, the inquisitive, explorative and dynamic approach one hears in Timo Andres’s piano-playing also comes through in his own music. —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2024, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Engineered Classical Album
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Simultaneously sad and uplifting, you’ll be hard pushed to find a performance to match this one for emotional intensity and ability to move the listener...Hunt Lieberson’s rich, pure voice,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Contemporary
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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is are generous and loving performances that, like a Rothko painting, reveal more of themselves to you the longer you spend with them; and please, I urge you, spend some time with them. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2025, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 32nd Awards (1989), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 32nd Awards (1989), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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