Naxos
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48 Strings - Music For One, Two, Four and Twelve Cellos
Andreas Brantelid, Ingemar Brantelid, Henrik Dam Thomsen, Fredrik Sjølin, Øystein Sonstad, Nils Ullner, Emilie Eskær, Jakob La Cour, Louisa Schwab, Morten Zeuthen, Live Johansson, Samira Dayyani, Lea Brøndal
Brantelid more than meets the challenge, not only producing flawless examples of high-tessitura octaves, rapid arpeggiated cross-string semiquavers and formidable double-stops, but showing them... —
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Throughout, the Tippett Quartet are sympathetic and expert interpreters negotiating Gorecki’s soundworld with a strong sense of ensemble and making the most of the abundant contrasts of material... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
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New. John Williams and 'The President's Own', Vol. 3
Thomas Hooten, United States Marine Band, John Williams (narrator), Colonel Jason K. Fettig
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Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (Special Edition)
RecommendedDame Edna Everage (narrator), Barry Humphries (narrator)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, John Lanchbery
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Ēriks Ešenvalds: Translations
Kate Ledington (soprano), Maeve Stier (soprano), Celine Clark (alto), Juan Castaneda (tenor), Jonathan Roberts (bass), David Walters (handbell), Anna Krytenberg (soprano), Savannah Panah (soprano), Gina Rizk (soprano), Joel Bluestone (glockenspiel), Florian Conzetti (vibraphone), Rebecca Yakos (soprano),...
Portland State Chamber Choir produces a beautifully blended sound in Ešenvalds’s multi-layered, atmospheric music – although a whole disc of it does begin to pall after a while. Probably best... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Once again Naxos scores with a little-known pianist, and the program includes the last of Field's Op. 1 sonatas that he wrote in 1801. It is in two movements but shows considerable influence... —
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Special offer. Aldridge: Elmer Gantry
RecommendedKeith Phares (Elmer Gantry), Patricia Risley (Sharon Falconer), Vale Rideout (Frank Shallard), Frank Kelley (Eddie Fislinger) & Heather Buck (Lulu Baines)
Florentine Opera Chorus, Florentine Opera Company & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, William Boggs
It’s tremendous fun — full of lush, old-fashioned melodies, showbizzy orchestration, rip-roaring ensembles and pastiche hymns, spirituals and gospel numbers. Darker and deeper than Lewis’s... —
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Grammy Awards, 54th Awards (2011), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 54th Awards (2011), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Naxos offers another group of rich and exotic Respighi works which demonstrate his extraordinary gift for brilliant orchestrations. The longest and most ambitious is Church Windows, though curiously... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2008, Editor's Choice
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto Nos. 1 & 4 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
RecommendedSergey Rachmaninov (piano)
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Leopold Stokowski
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Building a Library, January 2003, Historic Choice
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