Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010)
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Special offer. Michael Daugherty - Metropolis Symphony
RecommendedMary Kathryn Van Osdale (violin), Erik Gratton (flute) & Ann Richards (flute/piccolo), Terrence Wilson (piano)
Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero
This disc… also draws attention to a name new to me: Giancarlo Guerrero. Watch out for more from him —
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Orchestral Performance
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Special offer. Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 24
RecommendedMitsuko Uchida (piano and conductor)
Cleveland Orchestra
In the great C minor Concerto, K491, the opening tutti rages with all the ferocity of middle-period Beethoven, and when the piano enters it is pleading, fragile. …I found the last [movement]... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2009, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Special offer. Cecilia Bartoli - Sacrificium (Jewel Case Version)
RecommendedCecilia Bartoli
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
a classic Bartoli offering – an almost painfully slickly produced product that nevertheless sees off critical cynicism with its dramatic, technical and vocal prowess...[The arias'] virtuosity... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th October 2009
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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Here is another relatively new quartet plunging into the recording fray with 'high-end' repertory and reaping the rewards of their apparent fearlessness...the recordings have the conviction... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Saariaho: L'Amour de loin
RecommendedDaniel Belcher, tenor (Jaufré Rudel), Ekaterina Lekhina, soprano (Clémence) & Marie-Ange Todorovitch, mezzosoprano (Le Pèlerin)
Rundfunkchor Berlin & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano
Kent Nagano's Berlin forces convey every nuance of this shimmering score, and the surround-sound recording is first-rate, making this a set that approaches ideal. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Opera
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Opera Recording
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Verdi: Requiem
RecommendedBarbara Frittoli (soprano), Olga Borodina (mezzo), Mario Zeffiri (tenor), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass)
Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Riccardo Muti
...much remains of the potency of [Muti's] classic 1979 recording...The Dies Irae, for instance, retains all his customary bite and fury...Frittoli's substantial soprano charts the emotions... —
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Classical Album of the Year
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Special offer. Messiaen: Livre du Saint-Sacrement
RecommendedPaul Jacobs (organ at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, New York City)
That Paul Jacobs has the requisite stamina is certainly not in doubt...The playing is magnificent, with a splendid sense of colour and power...The registration and speed of each passage are... —
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Special offer. Quincy Porter : Complete Viola Works
RecommendedEliesha Nelson (viola), with John McLaughlin Williams (piano), with Douglas Rioth (harp), with John McLaughlin Williams (violin), with John McLaughlin Williams (harpsichord)
Northwest Sinfonia, John McLaughlin Williams
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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