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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005)
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American Classics - William Bolcom
RecommendedMeasha Brueggergosman, Ilona Davidson (soprano), Joan Morris (mezzo-soprano), Nathan Lee Graham (baritone), Thomas Young (tenor), Tommy Morgan (harmonica), Peter Ruth (harmonica, vocals)
University of Michigan School of Music Symphony Orchestra & Musical Society, Leonard Slatkin
This is a magnum opus that occupied Bolcom for 25 years, starting as early as 1956. He's drawn on a wide range of musical styles to parallel Blake's method of moving from sophisticated to almost... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2005, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Classical Album of the Year
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Verdi: Falstaff
RecommendedMichele Pertusi (Falstaff), Carlos Alvarez (Ford), Bülent Bezdüz (Fenton), Ana Ibarra (Alice Ford), Maria Josè Moreno (Nannetta), Jane Henschel (Mistress Quickly), Marina Domashenko (Meg Page)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
By all accounts the performances at the Barbican were among the most enjoyable of their kind in London for a long time, and certainly the enjoyment comes across on disc. The 'how' of it isn't... —
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Building a Library, April 2016, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2004, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Best Opera Recording
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Beethoven - Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3
RecommendedMartha Argerich (piano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
The Third Concerto's great Largo is as deeply expressive as it needs to be...Argerich's account of Beethoven's outrageous cadenza for No. 2 is spellbinding, and she dispatches the finale with... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2005, Disc of the Month
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Bolcom: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake)
RecommendedUniversity of Michigan School of Music Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Classical Album of the Year
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Boulez: Le Marteau sans maître
RecommendedHilary Summers (alto)
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Bach: Cantatas BWV 56, 158 & 82
RecommendedThomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone)
Berliner Barock Solisten, Members of the RIAS-Kammerchor, Rainer Kussmaul
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113 'Babi Yar'
RecommendedSergei Aleksashkin
Symphonieorchester Und Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Best Orchestral Performance
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