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Massenet: La Navarraise
Lucia Popp (Anita), Alain Vanzo (Araquil), Vincenzo Sardinero (Garrido), Gérard Souzay (Remigio), Claude Meloni (Bustamente), Michel Sénéchal (Ramon)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio de Almeida
Popp gives a high voltage performance in the title role and Alain Vanzo as her soldier lover is properly French vocally. The LSO under Antonio de Almeida play their espadrilles off! —
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Réédition
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Bruch: Scottish Fantasy
RecommendedJoshua Bell (violin/director)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Bell, now in charge of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, proves a capable conductor as well as, when required, a sumptuous Romantic violinist. He is fully aware of the performance practices... —
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Instrumental Solo
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Schubert: Symphony in C Major, 'The Great'
Kammerorchester Basel & Heinz Holliger, Kammerorchester Basel
Heinz Holliger
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Stravinsky: The Flood & Mass
RecommendedLaurence Harvey (Narrator), Sebastian Cabot (Noah), Elsa Lanchester (Noah’s Wife), John Reardon & Robert Oliver (God), Richard Robinson (Satan), Gregg Smith Singers
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Symphony Chorus, Igor Stravinsky
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Grammy Awards, 5th Awards (1962), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
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Ligeti: Nonsense Madrigals & other vocal works
RecommendedPierre-Laurent Almard (piano), Irina Kataeva (piano)
The King's Singers, The Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
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Shapero: Symphony for Classical Orchestra & Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
RecommendedEnglish Bach Festival Choir
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
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Building a Library, November 2019, Also Recommended
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The sound of it is different from the earlier recording, of course, even though perhaps only the oboes are easily recognisable as modern rather than period…The standard of playing of the Berliners,... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Concert Recording (music up to and including 18th century)
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Vivaldi - Paganini - Tartini
Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), L'arte del mondo, Andreas Arend (lute), Massimiliano Toni (harpsichord), Werner Ehrhardt
Though Mönkemeyer’s playing has an evident sense of period, he’s not performance practice, he’s not hidebound by the imperatives of the time-honoured treatises. He revels in Paganini’s honeyed... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Kozeluch: Concertos and Symphony
Sergio Azzolini (bassoon), Camerata Rousseau, Giovanni de Angeli (oboe), Leonardo Muzii
A contemporary of Mozart, Kozeluch doesn’t make any attempt to tug at the heart strings in these works. They are, however, gloriously convivial, and performed here with brio aplenty. Perfect... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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