Marin Alsop
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Baiba Skride plays Benjamin Britten
Violin Concerto & Double Concerto
Baiba Skride (violin), ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
The subtlety of her phrasing and range of her tonal palette reveal Skride as a Romantic player of real stature, and in the Prokofiev-like scherzo she’s not afraid to dig in and make less beautiful... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2024, Concerto Choice
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It is rare to be able to say that a performance forces one to listen to a work anew, but this is exactly what Alsop's reading achieves. Excellently recorded and with an elegant and witty performance... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Orchestral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, Disc of the month
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Building a Library, November 2023, Also Recommended - Symphony No. 9
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John Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
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Anna Clyne: Mythologies
RecommendedIrene Buckley, Jennifer Koh (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, Sakari Oramo, Andrew Litton, André de Ridder
Wildly exuberant, [Masquerade] suited its celebratory purpose to a T – and its live recording does likewise in opening this album of showstopping orchestral works...the album title Mythologies... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Bernstein: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
The performances are predictably excellent. In No. 1, the imposing first movement is presented with fervour, and the Copland-like central scherzo with lightness and precision; Jennifer Johnson... — More…
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Record Review, 14th January 2017, Recording of the Week
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Symphonic Recording (20th/21st-century music)
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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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Care for detail is apparent...[Alsop's] sense of line is at its most impressive in the way in which the slow movement is sustained and the unfolding of the joyous second theme in the finale...as... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2020, Also Recommended
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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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Under Marin Alsop's sensitive guidance, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra has found the heartbeat of this music. — More…
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Building a Library, June 2006, Budget Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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