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Strauss: Four Last Songs
RecommendedDeluxe Hard cover book version
Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
hers is a potentially magnificent instrument imperfectly wielded...One or two odd vowel sounds apart, the German isn't bad...Near-miraculous engineering gives us phenomenal details...but also... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44, etc.
RecommendedMenahem Pressler (piano)
Emerson Quartet
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Building a Library, January 2007, First Choice
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Bryn Terfel - Bad Boys
Bryn Terfel (baritone), Balcarras Crafoord, Anne Sofie von Otter (Mrs Lovett)
Swedish Radio Choir & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel
…Terfel is a consummate singing actor. …what other artist could find such different voices for singing Il Commendatore, Don Giovanni and Leporello in the closing scene of Mozart's opera. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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Golijov - Ayre
Dawn Upshaw (soprano), with Tara O'Connor (flute), Toff palmer (clarinet), Lyova (viola), Erik Friedlander (cello), Bridget Kibbey (harp), Eric Poland, Gordon Gottlieb (percussion)
with The Andalucian Dogs
Upshaw's performance of the Berio set falls short of Berberian's on the 1968 RCA recording, which was sharper and more vivacious, but she fully makes up for it on Ayre, where she equals the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2006, Editor's Choice
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The Clarinotts
RecommendedThe Clarinotts: Ernst Ottensamer, Daniel Ottensamer and Andreas Ottensamer (clarinets), František Jánoška (piano)
Wiener Virtuosen Streichensemble
an engaging and joyous experience...As well as the natural rapport that comes from a lifetime of music-making together, the Ottensamers are also old hands at arranging and extemporising existing... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st January 2016
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Barber: The Songs Complete
RecommendedCheryl Studer (soprano), John Browning (piano), Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Emerson String Quartet
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Solo vocal
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I love this. Soltani multi-tracks the sounds of his cello (bowed, plucked, drummed) to recreate passages from recent cinema epics. It could have been cheesy, but the result is rather brilliant... —
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Innovative Listening Experience
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Boulez: Sur Incises, Messagesquisse and Anthèmes 2
RecommendedJean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Hae-Sun Kang (violin)
Ensemble InterContemporain, Ensemble de Violoncelles de Paris
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Winner - Contemporary
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