Deutsche Grammophon
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The recital's radiant heart is Sheppard's Media Vite, but there are more highlights to come, including an outstanding reading of Holst's Nunc Dimittis, the flowing textures of Harris's Bring... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Schumann - Frauenliebe und Leben
RecommendedAnne Sofie Von Otter (mezzo soprano), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
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Building a Library, March 2016, First Choice
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Magdalena Kožená: Love and Longing
Orchestral Songs by Dvorák, Mahler, and Ravel
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
Throughout the Ruckert-Lieder the diction is excellent, dramatic emphases are absolutely in place and there is, notably in 'Um Mitternacht', some superb legato singing...Dvorak's Biblical Songs... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2012, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Vocal
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Rachmaninov: The Bells & Taneyev: John of Damascus
RecommendedMarina Mescheriakova, Sergei Larin, Vladimir Chernov
Russian National Orchestra, Moscow State Chamber Choir, Mikhail Pletnev
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Verdi: Otello
RecommendedPlácido Domingo (Otello), Cheryl Studer (Desdemona), Sergei Leiferkus (Iago), Ramón Vargas (Cassio), Michael Schade (Rodrigo), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Lodovico), Giacomo Prestia (Montano), Denyce Graves (Emilia)
Bastille Opera, Myung-Whun Chung
theatre, so Otello is a difficult opera to bring off out of it. For some years now, Domingo has been, on stage, the greatest Otello of our age. On record, though, he has had less success. Leiferkus... —
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Building a Library, January 2001, First Choice
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Bernstein: On The Town
RecommendedThomas Hampson (Gabey), David Garrison (Ozzie), Samuel Ramey (Pitkin), Kurt Ollmann (Chip), Frederica von Stade (Claire), Tyne Daly (Hildy), Marie McLaughlin (Ivy), Evelyn Lear (Madame Dilly), Cleo Laine (Nightclub Singer)
London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Music Theatre
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This is a well chosen selection of tenor arias with a few comparative rarities to offset the more obvious favourites. In its way it is a mini-history of a century of Italian opera, from Donizetti's... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Recital
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2008, Editor's Choice
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The unpredictable Pogorelich at his very best, accomplishing miracles of tone colour, refinement and control, with a coruscating final 'Scarbo'. The couplings are both piano sonatas: Prokofiev... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Pollini is not a pianist with a sense of humour, but his playing has a trim, classical cut with plenty of vitality, and a blunt, brusque Beethoven also bursts through from time to time. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th November 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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