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Amadeus
RecommendedAldo Baldin (artist), Agnes Baltsa (artist), Iona Brown (chorus conductor), John Constable (artist), Catherine Denly (artist), Barbara Hendricks (artist), Neil Jenkins (artist), Donald Maxwell (artist), John McCarthy (chorus conductor), Original Cast (artist), Felicity Palmer (artist), Cathryn Pope...
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Grammy Awards, 27th Awards (1984), Classical Album of the Year
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Ravel: L’enfant et les sortileges & Shéhérazade
RecommendedIsabel Leonard (L'Enfant), Yvonne Naef (Mother, Chinese Cup, Dragonfly), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Teapot, Arithmetic and Frog), Elliot Madore (Grandfather Clock/Tomcat), Paul Gay (Armchair/Tree), Anna Christy (Princess, Fire, Nightingale)
Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Susan Graham has absolutely the right voice for this music and knows it well. Her French is fine and I'm delighted she respects Ravel's carefully notated vocal slides. —
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Opera Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Winner - Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Winner - Orchestral
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Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedAlisa Weilerstein (cello)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Pablo Heras-Casado
Shostakovich’s two cello concertos present such different challenges, it’s a rare cellist who shines as brightly in both. Alisa Weilerstein is well-matched to the First Concerto: fierce, tight... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus
RecommendedHilde Güden (Rosalinde), Eberhard Wächter (Eisenstein), Giuseppe Zampieri (Alfred), Rita Streich (Adele), Gerhard Stolze (Orlofsky), Peter Klein (Blind), Walter Berry (Falke), Erich Kunz (Frank), Josef Meinrad (Frosch), Elfriede Ott (Ida)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker,...
The most luxuriantly Viennese of all Fledermice, with Karajan and the Philharmonic at their most effervescent and a delectable Staatsoper cast, plus a gala of 1950s Decca stars including Björling,... —
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Building a Library, September 2022, Also Recommended
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Nicola Benedetti: Homecoming
RecommendedA Scottish Fantasy
Nicola Benedetti (violin), with Julie Fowlis, Phil Cunningham & Aly Bain
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rory Macdonald
Her assured technique sees her through all the formidable obstacles en route...The BBC Scottish SO conducted by Rory MacDonald share Benedetti's rapport with this music, playing from the heart...Her... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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A Concert for Ukraine
RecommendedVladyslav Buialskyi (baritone), Lise Davidsen (soprano), Elza van den Heever (soprano), Jamie Barton (mezzo-soprano), Piotr Beczala (tenor), Ryan Speedo Green (bassbaritonevocalist), Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
This is a moving record of the Metropolitan Opera’s concert in solidarity with Ukraine, back in March, when the war was in its early days. A stirring Ukrainian national anthem and Silvestrov’s... —
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Classical Compendium
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Strauss, R: Elektra
Birgit Nilsson (Elektra), Regina Resnik (Klytämnestra), Marie Collier (Chrystothemis), Gerhard Stolze (Aegisth), Tom Krause (Orest)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
A classic superbly remastered, with Nilsson's searing anti-heroine and Solti building almost unbearable tension. Includes Resnik's raddled Klytaemnestra, Krause's heroic Orest and Marie Collier,... —
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