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Danny Elfman - Percussion Concerto, Wunderkammer
RecommendedColin Currie (percussion)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
The workout for the full orchestra [in Wunderkammer] is evident...Percussion nevertheless continues to be the main star of the album, and Colin Currie’s performance in the concerto, along with... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Pierre Boulez: Le Marteau sans Maitre & Livre Pour Cordes
RecommendedYvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano), Michel DeBost (flute), Michel Lorin (xylophone), Gérard Perotin (vibraphone), Sylvio Gualda (percussion), Anton Stingl (guitar), Serge Collot (viola)
Strings of the New Philharmonia Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
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Building a Library, February 2018, Recommended Recording
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Varese
RecommendedPierre Boulez (director), New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Beauregard (flute), Rachel Yakar (soprano), Ensemble Intercontemporain
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Grammy Awards, 21st Awards (1978), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Soul of the Tango
RecommendedYo-Yo Ma (cello), Leonardo Marconi (piano), Antonio Agri (violin), Hector Console (bass), Néstor Marconi (bandoneon), Sergio Assad (guitar), Odair Assad (guitar), Kathryn Stott (piano), Horacio Malvicino (guitar), Astor Piazzolla (bandoneon), Gerardo Gandini (piano), Oscar Castro-Neves (acoustic...
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Grammy Awards, 41st Awards (1998), Best Classical Crossover Album
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Here is music and music-making in which elegance, dash and lightness of spirit sit side by side with pools of emotional quiet which can haunt the mind for days to come —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Editor's Choice
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Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D956, etc.
RecommendedStern/Schneider/Katims/Casals/Tortelier
Prades Festival Orchestra, Pablo Casals
This historical account, recorded during the 1952 Prades festival, documents a unique and, sadly, unrepeatable occasion. —
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Building A Library, March 2022, Also Recommended
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
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Igor Stravinsky.... Conducts
RecommendedColumbia Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, Igor Stravinsky
The composer's blistering 1960 account of The Rite of Spring still startles. —
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Building a Library, March 2013, First Choice
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Donizetti Heroines
Elena Mosuc (soprano)
Symphony Orchestra of Croatian Radio-Television, Ivo Lipanovic
Mosuc takes few prisoners on this bel canto CD...her singing can be viscerally exciting...There's a thoughtfulness about Mosuc's singing, too...Not all of Mosuc's characterisation is as elegantly... —
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Opera, May 2014, Recording of the Month
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Placido Domingo: Verdi
RecommendedPlacido Domingo (baritone), Angel Joy Blue (Amelia), Gianluca Buratto (Fiesco), Fernando Piqueras (Paolo), Bonifaci Carrillo (Pietro), Aquiles Machado (Gabriele), Gianluca Buratto (Ferrando), Aquiles Machado (Carlo), Gianluca Buratto (Chirurgo)
Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Pablo Heras-Casado
Verdi himself would surely have applauded the expressivity of such singing where character is all...no one should pretend this voice is what it was: it is showing its age...Yet I can't imagine... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th August 2013
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