Warner Classics
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Britten: Serenade, Les Illuminations & Nocturne
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Radek Baborák (horn)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
Best of all is Nocturne, more spartan and enigmatic, about which he makes some very perceptive comments and where he seems more engaged; the anguished 'Prelude' is fiercely impressive. So are... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2005, Disc of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Requiem – The Pity of War
RecommendedMahler – Stephan – Butterworth – Weill
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Sir Antonio Pappano (piano)
Bostridge and Antonio Pappano are on superb form here, carefully responsive to style and mood, yet striving throughout for unsparing immediacy of expression…Stephan’s taxing vocal lines push... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th October 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Szymanowski: Król Roger & Symphony No. 4
RecommendedThomas Hampson, Elzbieta Szmytka, Ryszard Minkiewicz, Philip Langridge, Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle
King Roger is a ravishingly beautiful opera, but a very fragile one. With a shrill soprano or a less than ideally cast tenor it would be fatally flawed. Minkiewicz's Dionysiac Shepherd betrays... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Opera
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Hans Hotter
RecommendedHans Hotter (bass-baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Anthony Bernard
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Building a Library, September 1999, Mid-Price Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Taken at face value, the order and selection of works seems entirely random…However, the eccentric programme is carefully considered; repeated listening reveals new parallels between the pieces.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, Instrumental Choice
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Solo Recital (flute)
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Ein Heldenlebenwas always a favourite party-piece of Herbert von Karajan, so the challenge to his successor, Simon Rattle, is all the more formidable.
It says much for Rattle's achievement in... —Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2006, Disc of the Month
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Building a Library, October 2019, Also Recommended
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Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
[the Prokofiev] presents formidable technical challenges, all of which are surmounted almost with nonchalance, the pianist's focus resolutely serving the score, not the mechanisms involved in... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Foulds: Three Mantras, Lyra Celtica, Apotheosis & Mirage
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) & Daniel Hope (violin)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
and Youth Chorus, Sakari Oramo
Sakari Oramo programmed plenty of 20th-century British music during his Birmingham tenure, a policy which bore spectacular fruit with this enterprising disc devoted to Manchester-born John Foulds.... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Finalist - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2004, Editor's Choice
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In 2006 EMI signed the 25-year old American Jonathan Biss to an exclusive two-year contract.
This is the partnership's first fruit and this is Schumann-playing on an exalted level with per-... —Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2007, Instrumental Choice
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
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Puccini: La Bohème
RecommendedVictoria de los Angeles, Jussi Björling, Fernando Corena, Robert Merrill, Giorgio Tozzi
The Columbus Boychoir & RCA Victor Chorus & Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham
A classic, with extra electricity derived from the hasty recording, with Beecham's living, vivid conducting and a superb cast, both stellar and supporting, even though the mono sound is less... —
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Building a Library, June 2008, First Choice
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