Vocal, Berio (composer)
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Crazy Girl Crazy: Music by Gershwin, Berg and Berio
Recommendedincluding bonus documentary DVD
Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor)
Ludwig Orchestra
Crazy Girl Crazy is an album that – just like its muse and protagonist – flouts the rules…The litheness of Hannigan’s voice beguiles, so that the near-segue into the Lulu Suite (1934) comes... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd September 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, Recording of the month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Recording - voice (Oratorio/Concert/Lied)
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Berio: Sinfonia & Berio/Mahler: Frühe Lieder
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Synergy Vocals, Josep Pons
We have only to listen to [Berio’s] exquisite song orchestrations, graced with Goerne on riveting, vibrant form, to feel the depth of his empathy, an almost palpable longing to be absorbed into... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th September 2016
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Vocal Winner
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Building a Library, April 2004, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1999, Winner - 20th-Century Instrumental
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Special offer. Folk Songs
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano), Czech Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle
One of the great joys of this album is the sense of genuine dialogue between Kožená and the instrumentalists. This is a singer who really listens in detail to what’s going on in the orchestra,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Berio: Formazioni, Folk Songs & Sinfonia
Jard van Nes (mezzo-soprano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Electric Phoenix, Riccardo Chailly
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Richardot brings clarity to [the Sequenza's] histrionics, and a welcome grace that extends to the poignant O King (1968, post-assassination of Martin Luther King) and wonderfully contrasting... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2002, Editor's Choice
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Golijov - Ayre
Dawn Upshaw (soprano), with Tara O'Connor (flute), Toff palmer (clarinet), Lyova (viola), Erik Friedlander (cello), Bridget Kibbey (harp), Eric Poland, Gordon Gottlieb (percussion)
with The Andalucian Dogs
Upshaw's performance of the Berio set falls short of Berberian's on the 1968 RCA recording, which was sharper and more vivacious, but she fully makes up for it on Ayre, where she equals the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2006, Editor's Choice
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The performances exquisitely capture the shifting nuances and moods of a programme with a French bias, yet decidedly international in spirit…There is no doubt here that Stéphany’s is a highly... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2018
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