Nonesuch
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In a lengthy programme note, Jeremy Denk offers a very personal description of each work’s narrative, albeit with solid technical information. The performances themselves avoid self-indulgence,... —
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Record Review, 18th September 2021, Record of the Week
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ROBESOИ
THE TRUTH, DAVÓNE TINES (baritone), John Bitoy (piano, fender rhodes keyboards, synthesizer), Khari Lucas (synthesizer, bass), Gerry Eastman (guitar), Ian Askew (percussion), Hortensia Gooding (soprano), Jeanette Blakeney (alto), Joe Chappel (bass), Justin E. Bell (tenor), Markel Reed (bass), Michelle...
While you get plenty from the aesthetics of the listening experience, there is much more to be gleaned from this album as a piece of history, reinterpreting the story of Paul Robeson through... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Vocal
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Adams, J: El Niño
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Dawn Upshaw, Willard White
Theatre of Voices, London Voices, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano
John Adams's nativity oratorio is a winner, a very palpable hit - an intelligent, emotional and sometimes magical re-telling of the old, old story from a new perspective...you can tell the cast... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2001, Editor's Choice
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WTC 9/11 finds him on oustanding form: his skilful selection and manipulation of sounds resources has created an emotionally raw evocation of the shock, terror and sheer incredulity of that... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2011, Chamber Choice
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Donnacha Dennehy: Grá agus Bás
Iarla O’Lionáird (voice), Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
Crash Ensemble, Alan Pierson
[Grá agus Bás]...is a powerful symbiosis of old and new: modal inflections and reflections driven forward by muscular post-minimalist patterns and processes. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Editor's Choice
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Boston-based A Far Cry – who commissioned the work – handles the ever-changing moods with poise, creating a sense of otherworldliness in movements like ‘A memory’, where distorted harmonies... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Composer of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
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Andriessen, L: La Commedia
Claron McFadden, Cristina Zavalloni, Jeroen Willems, Marcel Beekman
Dutch National Opera, Jan Maarten Koeman
it is encouraging to hear Andriessen himself shifting his language decisively away from everybody else's pigeonholed view of his music...Reinbert de Leeuw directs the combined ASKO and Schonberg... —
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Opera, October 2014, Recording of the Month
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This is not a set that immediately fires the imagination, nor is it in all respects a perfectly 'finished' production. That said, it contains fine accounts of the elusive Third Concerto and... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Concerto
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Gabriel Kahane: Heirloom
Gabriel Kahane (guitar), Jeffrey Kahane (piano), The Knights, Eric Jacobsen
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After Bach II
Brad Mehldau (piano), Barbara Renner (instrument technician), Tom Korkidis (production co-ordinator)
The main event of After Bach II is the planting of Mehldau’s personal flag on one of the great Bachian peaks: seven tracks devoted to his take on the Goldberg Variations. —
