Presto CD
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The singing is technically polished, the tuning faultless and the overall sonority rounded and rich. — More…
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Building a Library, December 2003, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2013, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Bartók: The Wooden Prince & Cantata Profana
RecommendedJohn Aler (tenor), John Tomlinson (baritone)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Pierre Boulez
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Grammy Awards, 36th Awards (1993), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 36th Awards (1993), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 36th Awards (1993), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 36th Awards (1993), Classical Album of the Year
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Special offer. Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
RecommendedCharlotte Margiono (soprano), Rodney Gilfry (baritone)
Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner's performance is notable for its intensity and fervour, and for the superb singing of his choir: splendidly firm and secure attacks and phrasing, always with fine tonal quality, meticulous... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Berio: Sinfonia & Concerto for Two Pianos
RecommendedLuciano Berio, Antonio Ballista (piano), Bruno Canino (piano)
Pierre Boulez
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Gramophone Awards, 1977, Winner - Contemporary
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Grammy Awards, 12th Awards (1969), Best Choral Performance
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Venetian Vespers
RecommendedFive Vespers of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin as it might have been celebrated in St. Marks in 1643
Timothy Roberts (organ)
Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Early Music
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Walton: Symphony No. 1 & Belshazzar's Feast
RecommendedThomas Hampson (tenor, baritone)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
This is a winning coupling, with Walton’s two searing masterpieces from the 1930s given electrifying performances…Rattle with players he knows so well combines expressive freedom with knife-edged... — More…
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Building A Library, July 2022, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
RecommendedJessye Norman (Tove), Tatiana Troyanos (Waldtaube), James McCracken (Waldemar), Kim Scown (Klaus-Narr), David Arnold (Peasant), Werner Klemperer (narrator)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Seiji Ozawa
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Choral
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Holst: The Planets & Ligeti: Lux aeterna
Boston Symphony Orchestra, New England Conservatory Chorus, Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, William Steinberg, Helmut Franz
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The World of Sacred Music
Choristers of St. Paul's Cathedral, John Scott (organ), The St. Anthony Singers, Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Semple (treble), Jonathan Chinchen (treble), Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, Peter White (organ), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, Academy...
