Gramophone Awards, 1998
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For connoisseurs of choral music this is an essential buy. Outstanding performances of two rarely heard 20th-century masterpieces. — More…
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Building a Library, March 2005, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Choral
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Rousset and his accomplished musicians play with flair and imagination and are superbly recorded. One of the best discs of its kind for the last three years. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Baroque Non-Vocal
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The music of Federico Mompou may appear at first to consist of little more than charming, delicately scented but dilettantish salon near-improvisations with marked overtones of Erik Satie; but... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Instrumental
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Baroque Non-Vocal
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Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Hungarian Peasant Songs & other folk dances
RecommendedBudapest Festival Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Chorus, Iván Fischer
As Mandarins go, they don't come more miraculous than this – a vivid, no-holds-barred performance. Everything tells: the flavour is right, the pacing too, and the sound has a toughened, raw-edged... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Orchestral
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Building A Library, December 2023, Recommended Recording
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Bostridge makes you think anew about the music in hand, interpreting all these songs as much through the mind of the poet as that of the composer, and, being youthful himself, getting inside... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2010, Featured
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Solo vocal
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Building a Library, April 2017, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Orchestral
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Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin
RecommendedBudapest Festival Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Chorus, Iván Fischer
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Orchestral
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Rossini: Il Turco in Italia
RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (Fiorilla), Ramon Vargas (Narciso), Michele Pertusi (Selim), Laura Polverelli (Zaida), Alessandro Corbelli (Don Geronio), Roberto De Candia (Prosdocimo), Francesco Piccoli (Albazar)
La Scala Milan Chorus & Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
Chailly has recorded the work before, but in the years since he's matured as a Rossini conductor, and the Scala orchestra has this music under its fingers; there's an energy and vitality to... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Opera
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