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Charles Ives: Complete Symphonies
RecommendedMarta Gardolińska (chorus conductor)
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gustavo Dudamel
There are two chief reasons for Dudamel’s success as an Ives conductor with the LA Phil. One is their joint command of complex detail, conveyed in textures that seem to illuminate every thread... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Winner - Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Songs For New Life and Love
RecommendedMahler - Ives - Grime
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Hughes commands attention throughout – there’s no ‘clever’ underlining, no irrelevant tonal refulgences or prima donna posturings. Intense concentration on text and emotional nuance replace... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Ives - The Three Orchestral Sets
RecommendedMalmö Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus, James Sinclair
James Sinclair leads excellent performances. The Malmo Symphony sounds comfortable in the American idiom, and the recording is spacious, sweet sounding in the strings…You should have the Naxos... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2008, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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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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The overall excellence of Tamara Stefanovich’s interpretations is enhanced by a superb multichannel recording characterised by full-bodied ambience an concert-hall realism. Stefanovich voices... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Editor's Choice
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Ives - Romanzo di Central Park
RecommendedGerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano), Magnus Johnston (violin)
…outstandingly well sung and played, equally well recorded, and highly recommendable to all lovers of fine songs and fine singing. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2008, Choral & Song Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Ives: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4, Selected American Hymns
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
The results can be extraordinarily complex, but Thomas – Ives’s pre-eminent orchestral interpreter – navigates with smooth skill…the SFS Chorus give bright, if brief, renditions of significant... — More…
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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Charles Ives - An American Journey
RecommendedThomas Hampson (baritone)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas
Tilson Thomas has managed the impossible: a totally satisfying overview of Ives's genius on one sixty-five minute cd. Songs, symphonies, psalms and tone poems - they're all represented, and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2002, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Quiet City
RecommendedAlison Balsom (trumpet), Tom Poster (piano), Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais), Britten Sinfonia, Scott Stroman
Revisiting the improvisatory practice of jazz icons with highly idiosyncratic techniques can fall flat, but Balsom and the Britten Sinfonia make it work. They are entirely idiomatic and wonderfully... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th August 2022
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Grammy Awards, 36th Awards (1993), Best Chamber Music Recording
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