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Special offer. Beethoven: The Early String Quartets
In Concert at the Library of Congress 1943-1962
The Budapest String Quartet
It’s been well worth the wait for these performances. Restoration has done what it can for the boxy originals, but the energy and drive of the playing will make up for that. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Re-issue of the Month
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Special offer. Two New Comic Operas by Musto & Bolcom
New York Festival of Song: Lisa Vroman (soprano), Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Paul Appleby (tenor), Patrick Mason (baritone), Matthew Boehler (bass), Steven Blier and Michael Barrett (piano)
A real curiosity, this. Two new comic operas, written by two different composers and the same librettist, as a double bill...I cannot single out any particular singer for praise, because the... —
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Special offer. Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 15
Patrick Mason (baritone), David Starobin (guitar) & Daniel Druckman (percussion), Jamie Van Eyck (mezzo-soprano) & Patrick Mason (baritone)
Orchestra 2001, James Freeman
[folksongs] are overlaid with Crumb's traditional 'night music' gestures - amplified piano strings plucked and beaten, bowed cymbals and gongs, chanting, whistling, and whispering. All this... —
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Special offer. Blitzstein: The Cradle Will Rock
Ginger Costa-Jackson (vocals), Christopher Burchett (vocals), Nina Spinner (vocals), Larry Foreman (vocals), Andy Papas (vocals), Efraín Solís (vocals), Dylan Elza (vocals), Jorgeandrés Camargo (vocals), Justin Hopkins (vocals), Scott Purcell (vocals), Michael Anderson (vocals), Eric McConnell (vocals),...
It makes a punchy, highly colourful impression. Blitzstein’s orchestra includes an accordion, Hawaiian guitar, maracas and saxophones, and conductor John Mauceri relishes the extra tang and... —
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Opera, November 2018, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Music of Elliott Carter - Vol 7
Nicolas Hodges (piano)
London Sinfonietta & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen
You might expect the tone of these late works to be meditative and autumnal, but in fact they're witty, brightly coloured and full of mental and rhythmic agility. The four big-scale works from... —
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Special offer. Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 3
RecommendedSusan Narucki (soprano), Joseph Alessi (trombone) and George Crumb (bell-ringer), David Starobin (guitar) and George Crumb (percussion), Ann Crumb (soprano) and George Crumb (piano)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Warsaw Boys' Choir, Thomas Conlin
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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George Gershwin - Complete Music for Piano and Orchestra
Anne Marie McDermott (piano)
Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Justin Brown
It's rare enough to have all four Gershwin works for piano and orchestra on a single disc but rarer still for each one to come near or top of the class.
First, and unusually enough, McDermott... —Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2008, Editor's Choice
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Ponthus doesn't just have quicksilver fingers. The phrasing, the harmonic evolution and the music's rhythmic inner engine spark into intelligent life; he voyages deep inside the music's journey,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, Editor's Choice
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Ohlsson commands a huge variety of tones, pays immense attention to detail, but contrives to be spontaneous and to keep each whole work always in view. —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, Instrumental Choice
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His performance of Kreisleriana, in particular has all the impulsiveness and poetry the music needs… this well-recorded Schumann recital is one that gives rare pleasure. —
