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Each piece is beautifully crafted but collectively may be too much of a good thing, even in such a superb rendition. A disc for specialists, perhaps, but a special one. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Adams: Harmonielehre & Short Ride in a Fast Machine
RecommendedSan Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
More than in previous recordings, Michael Tilson Thomas's superbly paced approach conveys the music's sense of vast surrounding spaces, and the momentum of the biggest passages is the more thrilling... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Orchestral Performance
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bright, youthful, polished singing, giving Clausen's music fine advocacy...Certainly his choral works deserve wider international recognition and would be worthy additions to the choral repertoire. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Poèmes RecommendedSensual French Masterpieces
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Alan Gilbert, Seiji Ozawa
Always a strong Francophile, she makes an inspired exploration for the still-developing French tradition...it is easy to hear what inspired [Dutilleux]...Her lower register has become ever-richer... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th February 2012
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Penderecki: Fonogrammi, Partita & Horn Concerto
RecommendedUrszula Janki (flute), Jennifer Montone (horn), Michal Pindakiewicz (electric guitar), Konrad Kubicki (bass guitar), Barbara Witkowska (harp), Jerzy Cembrzynski (double bass)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit
the performances of the earlier pieces here are better recorded and generally better played than in the composer’s own recordings made when the techniques demanded by the music were clearly more... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Classical Compendium
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
RecommendedAlso contains the film 'Wagner's Dream' - a documentary about the making of the Metropolitan Operas new Ring cycle.
Das Rheingold
Lisette Oropesa (Woglinde), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Wellgunde), Tamara Mumford (Flosshilde), Eric Owens (Alberich), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Bryn Terfel (Wotan), Richard Croft (Loge), Franz-Josef Selig (Fasolt), Hans-Peter König (Fafner), Wendy Bryn Harmer (Freia),...
Kaufmann and Westbroek project the right kind of sexual and emotional intensity to carry the drama in the very bare setting that they're in, a tension matched elsewhere only by Waltraud Meier's... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Opera Recording
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