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Bernstein: On The Waterfront
RecommendedOrchestral Works
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Lindberg
They’re completely on fire, chiselling hot rhythms out of the percussion, melting their lips on ritzy brass cascades. They also obviously relish the tenderness of those rare moments when Bernstein... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Bernstein: The 3 Symphonies - Casebound Deluxe
RecommendedOrchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano
Rana glitters away at the piano as the observer of inner turmoil in Anxiety; Josephine Barstow makes an excellent first of Bernstein’s often embarrassing Kaddish narration…but the lynchpin remains... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th August 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Symphonic Music
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Special offer. Bernstein: Candide
RecommendedLeonardo Capalbo (Candide), Jane Archibald (Cunegonde), Anne Sofie von Otter (Old Lady), Thomas Allen (Dr Pangloss/Narrator)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Marin Alsop
In the title role, Leonardo Capalbo offers charm, delicacy and a touch of melancholy. Jane Archibald makes an amiable Cunegonde, though her showpiece ‘Glitter and be gay’ doesn’t sparkle enough.... — More…
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Record Review, 9th October 2021, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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this celebration of song is infused with heartfelt joy. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Song
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They simply dazzle in this opening salvo and they maintain their superlative form throughout the album [Walton's Roaring Fanfare]...brass enthusiasts should grab this collection – the playing... — More…
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It makes for an earcatching excursion celebrating the heady pluralism of American music...Together they forge a formidable partnership, technically fearless and equally at home in the different... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Chamber Music
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Bernstein: Candide, Act I, etc.
RecommendedJerry Hadley (Candide), June Anderson (Cunegonde), Adolph Green (Dr. Pangloss/Martin), Christa Ludwig (Old Lady), Nicolai Gedda (Governor/Vanderdendur/Ragotski)
London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
an irreplaceable treasure...Jerry Hadley is an ideal Candide (what a good career as a Broadway lead he might have had in another era), June Anderson is a grand opera Cunegonde with high wattage... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Music Theatre
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Grammy Awards, 34th Awards (1991), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 34th Awards (1991), Classical Album of the Year
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Bernstein: Mass
RecommendedJubilant Sykes (baritone)
Morgan State University Choir, Peabody Children's Chorus, Morgan State University Marching Band & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
…is a virtual triumph from beginning to end, and the only recording for me worthy of sitting next to the composer's own. …Alsop's tight-knit, symphonic pacing delineates the structure of the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2009, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Editor's Choice
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American Polyphony
RecommendedDavid Allsopp (countertenor), Christopher Lowrey (countertenor) & Robert Millett (percussion)
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
This is the finest performance of Barber's Agnus Dei I've heard by any choir, live or on record…a wonderful recital, not to be missed. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th July 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, Disc of the month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Alsop and her Bournemouth band capture [On the Waterfront] as surely and atmospherically as they do the glitzy exuberance of On the Town...it reeks of adrenaline, and brutal oppression...It... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2003, Disc of the Month
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