Decca
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Building a Library, March 2003, Mid-Price Choice
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British Music Collection - Herbert Howells
RecommendedGregory Moore (cantor), Simon Williams (tenor), Peter Barley (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Cleobury's Kings College singers are in their element, particularly so when singing music written specifically for them! Peter Barley's renditions of some of Howells' delightful organ works... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gibbons: Church Music
RecommendedThe Choir of King's College Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks & Boris Ord
The artistry of the performers perfectly matches Gibbons's demands in this Critics' Choice disc. Limpid clarity, sensitivity to text and earnest delivery reveal the subtleties of the composer's... —
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Building a Library, Also Recommended
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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British Music Collection - Michael Tippett
György Pauk, Nobuko Imai, Ralph Kirshbaum, Faye Robinson
London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Neville Marriner, Howard Snell, Nicholas Cleobury, Sir Georg Solti
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Rachmaninov - Complete Piano Concertos
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
RecommendedWillard White (Porgy), Leona Mitchell (Bess), McHenry Boatwright (Crown), Florence Quivar (Serena), Barbara Hendricks (Clara), Barbara Conrad (Maria), Arthur Thompson (Jake), François Clemmons (Sporting Life)
The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, Lorin Maazel
The first essentially complete Porgy remains one of the finest, with maximally polished orchestral playing and arguably the strong vocal line-up yet assembled. Maazel is at his most committed. —
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Grammy Awards, 19th Awards (1976), Best Opera Recording
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Beethoven: The Piano Concertos
RecommendedVladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
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Grammy Awards, 16th Awards (1973), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedCesare Siepi (Don Giovanni), Suzanne Danco (Donna Anna), Lisa della Casa (Donna Elvira), Fernando Corena (Leporello), Anton Dermota (Don Ottavio), Hilde Gueden (Zerlina), Walter Berry (Masetto), Kurt Böhme (Il Commendatore)
Wiener Philharmoniker & Wiener Staatsopernchor, Josef Krips
A 1955 classic that still captivates thanks to Krips's darkly dramatic atmosphere and a ripe Viennese cast headed by Siepi's richly Italianate seducer, sardonic Corena and the brilliant Della... —
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Building a Library, July 2018, Also recommended
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