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Régine Crespin: Shéhérazade RecommendedRégine Crespin (soprano)
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
Sumptuous of tone, supremely sensitive, Crespin was born to illuminate the art of French song. Whether floating the seductive allure of Ravel or revelling in the wit of Poulenc these recordings... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2007, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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The Essential Falla RecommendedNati Mistral (soprano), John Constable (harpsichord), Eduardo Fernandez (guitar), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Alicia de Larrocha (piano), Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano), Martin Katz (piano), Colette Boky (soprano)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, London Philharmonic Orchestra, L'Orchestre...
[El amor brujo] enjoys exceptionally vivid sound, yet with plenty of light and shade, and the control of atmosphere in the quieter passages is masterful...de Larrocha's later, digital version... — More…
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Régine Crespin - French Songs RecommendedRégine Crespin (soprano), John Wustman (piano)
Suisse Romande Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet
With recent recordings by Bernarda Fink, Susan Graham, Felicity Lott, there has been no shortage of Shéhérazades for our 21st century. But back in 1963 Régine Crespine recorded a performance... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Building a Library, September 2007, First Choice
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The Essential Borodin
RecommendedNicolai Ghiaurov (bass), Zlatina Ghiaurov (piano), Borodin Quartet
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Georg Solti, Edward Downes, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jean Martinon, Ernest Ansermet
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Building a Library, November 2006, Highly Recommended
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Johannes Brahms - Masterworks Volume 6
RecommendedKiri Te Kanawa, Andras Schiff, Helen Watts
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra & King's College Cambridge Choir, Georg Solti and Claudio Abbado
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Grammy Awards, 22nd Awards (1979), Best Choral Performance
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Watts’s rich, old-fashioned voice and creamy legato are beautifully matched by Geoffrey Parsons’s restrained, luminous piano sound. Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody is surpassingly beautiful, if slow. — More…
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As soon as Danco starts to sing, her identity is unmistakable, a bright, vibrant voice, impassioned in its delivery, with perfect diction and an intuitive grasp of text. ‘The Decca Recitals’... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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The Debussy Edition
RecommendedFranklin Cohen (clarinet), Jean-Rodolphe Kars (piano), Vera Badings (harp), Krystian Zimerman (piano), Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano), Mitsuko Uchida (piano), Zoltan Kocsis (piano), Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pianos), Augustin Dumay (violin), Maria-Joao Pires (piano), Mischa Maisky (cello),...
Of the compilations released to mark the 150th anniversary of Claude Debussy's birth this year, this is the most treasurable. As a survey of the music of perhaps of the greatest 20th-century... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd April 2012
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Ravel – The Complete Edition RecommendedJean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), François-Joël Thiollier (piano), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Ivo Pogorelich (piano), Pascal Rogé & Denise-Françoise Rogé (piano), Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pianos), Jacques Février (piano), Vladimir Ashkenazy & Vovka Ashkenazy (pianos), Cecilia Bartoli...
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Building a Library, June 2014, Recommendation available as collected edition
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Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat
François Simon, Jean Villard Gilles & William Jacques (narrator) Yoshiko Furusawa (soprano)
Suisse Romande Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet
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