Oliver Knussen
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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Angelika Kirchschlager (Lucretia), Peter Coleman-Wright (Tarquinius), Ian Bostridge (Male Chorus), Susan Gritton (Female Chorus), Christopher Purves (Collatinus), Benjamin Russell (Junius), Claire Booth (Lucia), Hilary Summers (Bianca)
Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble, Oliver Knussen
Without hurrying, Knussen conducts a tight, vivid account, surpassing Britten's own...Ian Bostridge and Susan Gritton as Male and Female Chorus project their rhetorical commentaries with exemplary... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Opera
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Davies, Peter Maxwell: Taverner
Martyn Hill (Taverner), David Wilson-Johnson (Jester), Stephen Richardson (Henry VIII), Fiona Kimm (Virgin Mary), Michael Chance (Priest/God), Quentin Hayes (White Abbot) & Peter Sidhom (Richard Taverner)
Fretwork, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta Voices, His Majestys Sagbutts...
The opera is full… bitterly ironic juxtapositions, such as the 'holy' chanting from monks heard against the cynical Realpolitik of the negotiations between King and the Cardinal. Making the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Opera
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Opera, April 2010, Recording of the Month
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Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
Harrison Birtwistle (The Soldier), George Benjamin (The Devil), Dame Harriet Walter (narrator)
Royal Academy of Music, Oliver Knussen
It’s recorded in a way to convey to the maximum both the poetic detail and the expert pacing of Knussen’s finely-pointed reading, and to give full rein to Dame Harriet’s wonderfully free-spirited... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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British Composers: A Celebration
RecommendedRichard Rodney Bennett (piano), Robert Tear (vocals), Ian Hare (piano), Bruce Russell (vocals), Sir Andrew Davis (piano), Richard Lewis (vocals), Monica Sinclair (vocals), Lewis Thomas (vocals), Geoffrey Walls (baritone), John Hauxwell (bass-baritone), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Wilfred Brown...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Knussen: Higglety Pigglety Pop! & Where the Wild Things Are
Cynthia Buchan, Lisa Saffer, Rosemary Hardy. Christopher Gillet, David Wilson-Johnson, Stephen Richardson, Mary King
London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2001, Editor's Choice
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, etc.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Göteborgs Symfoniker, The Cleveland Orchestra, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini, Lorin Maazel, Neeme Järvi, Oliver Knussen, Gennadi Roshdestvensky
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Torgny Sporsen (bass)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Chorus, The Cleveland Orchestra, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini, Lorin Maazel, Neeme Järvi, Oliver Knussen, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
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Goehr: Behold the Sun
Moray Welsh (cello), Jeanine Thames (soprano)
London Sinfonietta and the RLPO, David Atherton and Oliver Knussen
Moments of ear-catching, rarefied beauty — More…
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Stravinsky: The Flood, Abraham and Isaac & Requiem Canticles
Lucy Shelton (soprano), Susan Bickley (contralto), Peter Hall (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone), Stephen Richardson (bass)
London Sinfonietta, New London Children's Choir, Oliver Knussen, James Wood
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