Decca
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Gramophone Awards, 1978, Winner - Orchestral
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Stravinsky - The Great Ballets
RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, London Symphony Orchestra, Igor Markevitch
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Hindemith's series of Kammermusik ('Chamber Music') began in 1921 as an iconoclastic response to the hyperintense emotionalism of German Expressionist music over the previous 15 years. It continued... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Orchestral
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Diamonds in the Snow
RecommendedScandinavian Songs by Grieg and Sibelius
Barbara Bonney & Antonio Pappano
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Vocal
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Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture & Capriccio Italian
Recommendedspoken commentary by Deems Taylor
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra & University of Minnesota Brass Band, London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati
it sounds even more spectacular than it did in its vinyl format, vividly catching Beethoven's musical picture of armies clashing. —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Brahms: The Complete Trios
RecommendedGyörgy Sebök, Arthur Grumiaux & Francis Orval, George Pieterson, Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler & Bernard Greenhouse
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Building a Library, October 2004, First Choice
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Building A Library, October 2023, Also recommended - Clarinet Trio
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Benedetti’s first entry is swift, weightless and agile, landing as it does on the softest of pianissimos, the effect at once both virtuosic and ethereal...because her overall approach is so... —
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
RecommendedJosé van Dam (Hans Sachs), Ben Heppner (Walther von Stolzing), Karita Mattila (Eva), Alan Opie (Beckmesser), Iris Vermillion (Magdalena), Herbert Lippert (David), René Pape (Pogner), Albert Dohmen (Kothner), Kelly Anderson (Nachtwächter)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
[Van Dam] fulfils expectations with a reading that is finely moulded from start to finish...Heppner seems to have benefited from his longer experience of his role...Throughout this is a portrayal... —
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Grammy Awards, 40th Awards (1997), Best Opera Recording
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Karl Jenkins - The Armed Man
Guy Johnston (cello), Mohammed Gad (vocals), Jody K. Jenkins (percussion), Nicholas Merryweather (baritone), Lisa Spurgeon (soprano), Neil Percy (percussion), Mike Brewer (chorus conductor), Rachel Lloyd (mezzo-soprano), Paul Beniston (trumpet), Tristan Hambleton (treble), Susie Parkes (soprano),...
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a genuinely touching, warm-hearted and classy example of the genre – and more imaginative in the choice of repertoire than most. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th December 2023
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