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Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos & Piano Concerto
RecommendedEric Le Sage (piano), Frank Braley (piano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Leige, Stéphane Denève
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Building a Library, May 2019, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, June 2023, Also Recommended (Piano Concerto in C sharp minor)
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Haydn: London Symphonies Vol.1
RecommendedSymphonies No. 101 'The Clock' & No. 103 'Drum Roll'
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Järvi
Järvi is good at bringing out the music’s humour...Mind you, Järvi’s clock runs very fast...The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie of Bremen is on its toes throughout, and the recording does the playing... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th May 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Orchestra of the Year
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Christian Gerhaher is one of the most exciting German baritones on the Lieder scene at the moment, with his outstanding natural voice, immaculately groomed to enable a powerful musical sculpting... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2006, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Winner - Vocal
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…outstandingly imaginative piano playing of Gerold Huber. He counterpoints voice and piano with the subtext within the settings, often with revelatory results. Both Gerhaher and Huber pace... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Building a Library, May 2023, Recommended Recording
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Charles Ives - An American Journey
RecommendedThomas Hampson (baritone)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas
Tilson Thomas has managed the impossible: a totally satisfying overview of Ives's genius on one sixty-five minute cd. Songs, symphonies, psalms and tone poems - they're all represented, and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2002, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Genia Kühmeier (soprano) & Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Arnold Schoenberg Choir & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Tempos are slow, sometimes even stolid, yet Harnoncourt achieves effects of extraordinary intensity...the superb Arnold Schoenberg Choir respond willingly to his every demand...Genia Kühmeier... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, Editor's Choice
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On paper it seems an unlikely pairing. On disc, however, it is something of a triumph, a recording that is far more than a mere souvenir d'occasion of a memorable night in Carnegie Hall. Intriguingly,... —
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Building a Library, April 2010, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2006, Editor's Choice
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Barber: Orchestral Works
RecommendedJohn Browning (piano), Kyoto Takezawa (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello), Leonard Slatkin (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch, Leonard Slatkin
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Building a Library, June 2006, Budget Choice
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Grammy Awards, 7th Awards (1964), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 34th Awards (1991), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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The pacing of each movement is majestic.
Not too fast in the first movement; a slow, contemplative tread in the second; animated, but capable of opening out into something more leisurely in... —Awards:
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Building a Library, November 2012, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1999, Winner - Orchestral
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Building a Library, November 2012, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Orchestral
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Building A Library, March 2022, Also Recommended
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