Gramophone Awards, 1997
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George Dyson: The Canterbury Pilgrims
RecommendedYvonne Kenny (soprano), Robert Tear (tenor) & Stephen Roberts (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
This superb offering of a full-length cantata based on the Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales bears out its reputation as Dyson's masterpiece. It's a fresh, tuneful work, aptly exuberant... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Engineering
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Szymanowski: Concertos, Orchestral & Choral Works
RecommendedIwona Sobotka, Timothy Robinson, Katarina Karnéus, Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Elzbieta Szmytka, Jadwiga Rappé, Philip Langridge & Thomas Hampson, Florence Quivar, Jon Garrison & John Connell
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, with City of Birmingham...
Both these differing works [Song of the Night and Stabat Mater] are sensitively performed, giving the listener an excellent insight into the contrasting aspects of this composer's work. Rattle's... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Engineering
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Puccini: La Rondine
RecommendedAngela Gheorghiu (Magda/Anna), Roberto Alagna (Ruggero/Roberto), William Matteuzzi (Prunier), Inva Mula (Lisette), Alberto Renaldi (Rambaldo)
London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
An almost ideal account of Puccini's least-performed mature work, with both Alagna and Gheorghiu at their peak. Valuable extras from Alagna in Le Villi, too. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Recording of the Year
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Puccini: La Rondine
RecommendedAngela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Inva Mulla Tchako, William Matteuzzi
London Voices, London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
It couldn't be more welcome when a recording transforms a work, as this one does, setting it on a new plane. Larondine ('The Swallow'), Puccini's ill-timed attempt to emulate Lehár in the world... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Contemporary
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Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
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Szymanowski - Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedThomas Zehetmair (violin), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle
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Top billing goes to the Requiem, Ockeghem's most widely recorded work, and perhaps his most enigmatic piece, stylistically very wide-ranging and diverse. Aesthetic judgement is hard to pass,... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Early Music
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Schumann: The Complete Songs
RecommendedThe Lieder of Robert Schumann in chronological order
Juliane Banse, Edith Barlow, Katherine Broderick, Stella Doufexis, Felicity Lott, Geraldine McGreevy, Dorothea Röschmann, Kate Royal, Christine Schäfer, Lydia Teuscher (soprano), Daniela Lehner, Ann Murray, Leigh Woolf (mezzo-soprano), Ian Bostridge, Mark Padmore, Nicky Spence, Adrian Thompson, Adrian...
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Solo vocal
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Building a Library, October 2022, Also Recommended - Myrthen
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Haydn: The Creation
Recommended(sung in German)
Sylvia McNair, Donna Brown, Michael Schade, Gerald Finley & Rodney Gilfry
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
With Gardiner's first down-beat it's obvious that Chaos's days are numbered.
Not that 'days' (strictly speaking) are in question till the mighty words have been spoken, and then, in this performance,... — More…Awards:
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Szymanowski - Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedThomas Zehetmair (violin) & Silke Avenhaus (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle
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