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Grammy Awards, Renaissance (era)
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Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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In War & Peace
RecommendedHarmony Through Music
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo)
Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Though the top of her voice is wiry under pressure, her coloratura is tightly sprung, her diction is flawless, and her phrasing of the often underrated poetry is sympathetic and sophisticated…Il... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Recital
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Opera, January 2017, Recording of the Month
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Shibe brings a lively charisma and a vibrant array of musical colour to the album, conjuring everything from 17th-century lute to Arabic oud across this wide-reaching programme. Sulayman’s performance... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th May 2023
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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The famed King’s Singers attention to pin-point pitching, slick ensemble, and deft balances between the voices are present in abundance. The two Beatles arrangements are particularly successful…The... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium
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Songs of Orpheus
RecommendedMonteverdi, Caccini, Merula, Brunelli, Castello, Cima, Landi
Karim Sulayman (tenor)
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Sulayman’s approach tends more towards the lyrical than the rhetorical – his lucid, velvety tenor and pop-star charisma best suited to melodious arias rather than the text-driven stile recitativo…Under... —
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Schubert: Death and the Maiden
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
This must have been an enthralling concert. It’s almost impossible to imagine Schubert’s Death and the Maiden in a string orchestral arrangement better played, with Kopatchinskaja a dynamic... —
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Sub Ursae
RecommendedKarol Kusz (soloist), Marc Lewon, Łukasz Dziuba, Marek Opaska, Rafał Tomkiewicz, Liliana Pociecha, Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett, Katarzyna Kucia, Cracow Singers
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Early Music
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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Grammy Awards, 11th Awards (1968), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Chamber Music Recording
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The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli & Frescobaldi
RecommendedE. Power Biggs (organ)
Philadelphia Brass, Cleveland Brass Ensemble, Chicago Brass Ensemble, New England Brass Ensemble, Richard Burgin
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Grammy Awards, 12th Awards (1969), Best Chamber Music Recording
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