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Special offer. Richard Danielpour: The Passion of Yeshua
RecommendedJames K. Bass (bass), Matthew Worth (baritone), Kenneth Overton (baritone), Hila Plitmann (soprano), J'Nai Bridges (mezzo-soprano), Timothy Fallon (tenor), Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, University of California, Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
The score is symphonic in its richness and operatic in its drama; scenes are set with extraordinary vividness, and there is some wonderful, lyrical writing for the vocal soloists, particularly... —
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Winner - Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
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Howells: Stabat Mater
RecommendedBenjamin Hulett (tenor), Alison Hill (soprano)
The Bach Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill
Though there is much emotional turbulence in this music, Hill maintains a compelling life and forward momentum in Howells's immensely contrapuntal score...The Bach Choir has a palpable vibrancy... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Choral
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 'The year 1905'
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
…Petrenko… keeps an extremely tight grip on proceedings, opting for flowing speeds in the first and third movements while carefully building up an exciting symphonic tension through the intense... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th April 2009
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This is a magnificent record. The Weimar Staatskapelle are rare visitors to disc, but they are a top-class orchestra, with superb strings which sound overwhelmingly, sensuously beautiful in... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2006, Editor's Choice
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Vaughan Williams - Sancta Civitas
Christina Pier (soprano) & Matthew Brook (baritone), Matthew Brook (baritone) & Andrew Staples (tenor)
The Bach Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Winchester Cathedral Choristers & Winchester College Quiristers, David Hill
David Hill directs both these works with a strong sense of their overall shape…Anyone coming to these works for the first time through these recordings is unlikely to be disappointed. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Choral
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Poulenc: Organ Concerto & Concert champêtre
Philippe Lefebvre (organ), Elisabeth Chojnacka (harpsichord)
Lille National Orchestra, Jean-Claude Casadesus
Elisabeth Chojnacka gets off to a head start against most others who have recorded the Concertchampêtre by using the right kind of instrument: she understands that it's much sillier to play... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Recommendation
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If he lacked the audacious imagination of his teacher, Scarlatti, there are delights to be found among Soler's harpsichord sonatas. Gilbert Rowland, playing a resonant French harpsichord, is... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve
Julia Muzychenko, Enkelejda Shkoza, Georgy Vasiliev, Andrei Popov, Alexey Tikhomirov, Anthony Robin Schneider, Chor de Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern-Und Museumorchester, Christof Loy, Sebastian Weigle
Loy masses his choral scenes with gusto, and draws the characters with compassion and wit...this recording should make new friends for an opera that ought to be much more than just a Russian... —
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Complete Opera)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve
Julia Muzychenko, Enkelejda Shkoza, Georgy Vasiliev, Andrei Popov, Alexey Tikhomirov, Anthony Robin Schneider, Chor de Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern-Und Museumorchester, Christof Loy, Sebastian Weigle
Loy masses his choral scenes with gusto, and draws the characters with compassion and wit...this recording should make new friends for an opera that ought to be much more than just a Russian... —
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Complete Opera)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Special offer. Copland: Symphony No. 3 & Three Latin American Sketches
RecommendedDetroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
What counts…in this crisp and sensible performance is Slatkin’s concern with the Symphony’s gentler corners…[His] tight control of textures and the finesse of his Detroit musicians also help... —
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Orchestral Performance
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