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Special offer. Emporium - Music of Aldo López-Gavilán
Aldo López-Gavilán (piano), Ricardo Morales (clarinet), Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Butterman
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Special offer. Manfred Honeck conducts Dvorak & Janacek
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Honeck's interpretation is rich in imagination and the playing of the Pittsburgh Symphony scales the heights...I would say that Manfred Honeck is one of the few remaining masters of the rostrum... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Pavel Chesnokov: Teach Me Thy Statutes
RecommendedPatram Institute Male Choir, Vladimir Gorbik
It comprises 21 tenors, nine baritones, seven basses and five profundos, and is very much a tenor-dominated sound with little obvious resonance from the lowest voices. This gives it all a fervent... —
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Choral Performance
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New. Andy Akiho: Beneath Lighted Coffers; Concerto For Steel Pans & Orchestra
Oregon Symphony, Andy Akiho, David Danzmayr
this album brings together two substantial works by steel pannist Andy Akiho, a composer known for bringing theatricality and drama to large-scale percussion works. Those are brought to life... —
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Special offer. Kurt Sander: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
RecommendedPaTRAM Institute Singers, Peter Jermihov
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Choral Performance
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Special offer. Requiem: Mozart's Death in Words and Music
F. Murray Abraham, Jeanine De Bique (soprano), Catriona Morison (mezzo), Ben Bliss (tenor), Tareq Nazmi (bass); Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Westminster Choir, The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Manfred Honeck
Honeck's is an exciting performance of the Requiem, with a crisp Kyrie, a nimble-footed Domine Jesu and a Dies Irae, which, though played and sung with absolute precision, evokes a whirlwind... —
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Friml's Piano Trio of 1916 - a single- movement rhapsody titled Rural Life in Bobemia - is the main discovery on this imaginatively programmed release...Like everything on this album, it's played... —
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There’s an excellent dynamic range and lots of detail emerges very naturally, which is just what you want in scores like these. The accompanying documentation is excellent; the composer writes... —
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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Special offer. Far in the Heavens
RecommendedChoral Music of Stephen Paulus
Kathryn Mueller (soprano), Thea Lobo (mezzo-soprano), Owen McIntosh (tenor), Matthew Goinz (baritone), Sara Fraker (oboe), Christine Vivona (harp)
True Concord Voices, True Concord Orchestra, Eric Holtan
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Ninety seconds is all it takes to understand that Manfred Honeck’s is no sanitized Beethoven: the plethora of colorations, articulations and moods through which he forces the Fifth’s famous... —
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