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Ashkenazy has made few more distinguished discs as conductor than his Rachmaninov symphony recordings of the early 1980s. The downside of the repackaging in this 2CD format is that you have... —
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Building a Library, March 2016, First Choice
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Andreas Scholl - Arcadia
Vocal cantatas by Italian composers associated with the Arcadian Academy of Rome
Andreas Scholl (countertenor)
Accademia Byzantina, Ottavio Dantone
Scholl's polished counter-tenor is suitably seductive, his interpretative instincts engaging...The playing of the Italian ensemble Accademia Bizantina, led from the harpsichord by Ottavio Dantone,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2004, Editor's Choice
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Rossini Discoveries
Ildar Abdrazakov (baritone), Michele Pertusi (baritone), Laura Giordano (soprano), Nelson Calzi (fortepiano)
Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
Philip Gossett calls this 'a Rossinian curio cabinet'.
'A banquet made with leftovers from the Rossini kitchen' would do as well. Whatever the analogy, the art is as much in the assembling of... —Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2002, Editor's Choice
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Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri
RecommendedTeresa Berganza, Fernando Corena, Rolando Panerai, Giuliana Travolaccini, Miti Truccata Pace, Paolo Montarsolo & Luigi Alva
Orchestra a Coro del Maggio & Musicale Fiorentino, Silvio Varviso
This recording of L'italiana in Algeri was made in the Teatro de la Pergola, Florence in the summer of 1963...Rolando Panerai is his usual incomparably humorous self. The recording is typical... —
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Building a Library, October 1999, Second Choice
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Building a Library, June 2008, First Choice (studio recording)
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Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen
Recommended(complete opera)
Dalibor Jedlicka, Vladimir Krejcik, Lucia Popp, Richard Novák, Eva Randová
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Mackerras
Janácek used the most unlikely material for his operas. For The Cunning LittleVixen his source was a series of newspaper drawings, with accompanying text, about the adventures of a vixen cub... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1982/3, Winner - Opera
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Renée Fleming - Bel Canto
RecommendedRenée Fleming (soprano)
Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra of St Luke's, Patrick Summers
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Grammy Awards, 45th Awards (2002), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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this great musician here returns to something like top form. These may be his first recordings of these works but they sound as though they have been in his fingers for a long time...Ashkenazy's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Editor's Choice
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Bartók: Kossuth & Concerto for Orchestra
RecommendedSan Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt
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Grammy Awards, 38th Awards (1995), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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An attractive programme [which] shows off the high quality of the Filarmonica della Scala…the brightness of the strings is offset by the warmth of the horns…and a neatness of attack as well... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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