20th Century Classics
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Berg: Violin Concerto & Lulu Suite
Franz Peter Zimmermann (violin), Arleen Augér (soprano), Peter Donohoe (piano), Sine Bundgaard (soprano)
Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Alban Berg Quartet, Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Sir Simon Rattle, Ingo...
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Prokofiev - Concertos
RecommendedEfrem Kurtz, Walter Susskind, Martha Argerich, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Michel Béroff & János Starker
Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle, Charles Dutoit, Lorin Maazel & Riccardo Muti
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Building a Library, January 2019, Also Recommended
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Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht
Phyllis Bryn-Julson
Artemis Quartet, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate & Sir Simon Rattle
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Orchestral
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Falla - Spanish Songs, Noces en los jardines de Espana & Concerto
RecommendedVictoria de los Angeles (soprano), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) & Gonzalo Soriano (piano), with Gonzalo Soriano, Gonzalo Soriano, Michel Debost, Robert Casier, André Boutard, Pierre Nérini & Robert Cordier, Annie Challan & Jean-Claude Gérard
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre...
With Victoria de los Angeles startlingly authentic in rough-edged cante jondo style, and conductors like Giulini and Frühbeck de Burgos, this is a superb Falla sampler. —
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Building a Library, June 2009, First Choice (1925 version)
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Messiaen - Turangalîla Symphony
RecommendedMichel Beroff, Jeanne Loriod, Yvonne Loriod, Wolfgang Meyer, Christoph Poppen & Manuel Fischer-Dieskau
London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn
Newly reissued, Previn's 1977 account dragged Turangalîla to mainstream attention. Previn excels at combing through Messiaen's thick layers, and the LSO are on fine form - am exhilarating souvenir... —
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Building a Library, February 2023, Recommended recording - Turangalila
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Tavener - The Protecting Veil
RecommendedRecorded: 24-28 January 1994, Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
Steven Isserlis (cello), Iain Simcock (handbells), Solveig Kringelborn, William Kendall, Donald Sweeney, Gavyn Wright, Maciej Rakowski, Boguslav Kostecki, Ben Cruft, Jackie Shave & David Dunnett
London Symphony Orchestra, Chilingirian Quartet, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Gennadi Rhozdestvensky,...
Excellent accounts of some of the best of Tavener's Orthodox/Byzantine-influenced works, full of mystery and serene faith. —
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Contemporary
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Vaughan Williams
Sarah Chang (violin), Christopher Balmer, Ian Partridge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Willison, Norma Burrowes, Sheila Armstrong, Susan Longfield, Marie Hayward (soprano), Alfreda Hodgson, Gloria Jennings, Shirley Minty, Meriel Dickinson (contralto), Bernard Dickerson, Wynford Evans, Kenneth Bowen...
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Glazunov: The Seasons & Violin Concerto
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Nathan Milstein (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Lovro von Matacic, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Anatole Fistoulari
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Bartók: Concertos
Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Silvio Gualda & Jean-Pierre Drouet
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle, Eugene Ormandy, David Shallon
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Kodály: Choral & Orchestra Works
Jason James, James Gilchrist & Stephen Rice, Ilona Andor, David Oistrakh & Vladimir Yampolsky, Paul Tortelier (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Kodály Girls Choir, Klaus Tennstedt, Walter Susskind, Stephen Cleobury
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