Dean, B
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Brett Dean: Hamlet
RecommendedAllan Clayton (Hamlet), Sarah Connolly (Gertrude), Barbara Hannigan (Ophelia), Rod Gilfry (Claudius), Kim Begley (Polonius), John Tomlinson (Ghost/Grave-Digger), Jacques Imbrailo (Horatio), David Butt Philip (Laertes)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski
Dean’s score succeeds through rampant imagination and simple wisdom…[Clayton’s] portrayal of Hamlet’s decline would be noteworthy even without singing that is full of expressive meaning and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Contemporary
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Brett Dean - Rooms of Elsinore
RecommendedJennifer France; Lotte Betts-Dean; Juho Pohjonen; James Crabb; Volker Hemken; Swedish Chamber Orchestra; Brett Dean
This compelling album presents five works prompted by writing an opera on Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy. Each stands on its own, yet they obliquely inhabit its world….Adroitly partnered by pianist... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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[Testament is] an evocative, powerful work, incisively played by the Bayerisches Staatsorchester under Vladimir Jurowski. Equally fresh in its impact, Symphony No. 2 is filled with vigorous... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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This delicate and daring performance gives a clear impression of two musicians for whom verbal communication might well be less fertile than musical. The approach, in which instruments often... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Beethoven/5, Vol. 1
Jonathan Biss (piano), David Afkham, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Biss’ assured command of the demanding keyboard-writing and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s bracing proficiency are well captured… I find much of Biss’ pearly, intimately scaled phrasing... —
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The individual variations, specially commissioned from contemporary composers and played here en suite, share an aroma of freshness due to their unfamiliarity. They also elicit from Buchbinder... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2020
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Special offer. Brett Dean: Hamlet
RecommendedAllan Clayton (Hamlet), Sarah Connolly (Gertrude), Barbara Hannigan (Ophelia), Rod Gilfry (Claudius), Kim Begley (Polonius), John Tomlinson (Ghost/Grave-Digger/Player-King), Jacques Imbrailo (Horatio)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski
Dean’s score succeeds through rampant imagination and simple wisdom…[Clayton’s] portrayal of Hamlet’s decline would be noteworthy even without singing that is full of expressive meaning and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Contemporary
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Allison Bell's genuinely affecting performance is backed by the Doric Quartet's expressionist scampering and sustained harmonies, the strings occasionally coming to the fore in the manner of... —
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…A magisterial performance, closely attentive to detail, in which the continental influences are highlighted as never before… The climax of 'Uranus' is a thriller: a massive build-up, with... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2006, Orchestral Choice
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Some purists may take exception to Dausgaard’s tempos or dynamics here and there, but the Bach performances, for the most part, are crisp, lively and expressive, and the BIS recording vivid,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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