Nonesuch
-
Thomas Adès: Dante
RecommendedLos Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gustavo Dudamel
Adès takes Liszt’s legacy of demonic harmony and develops it further away some of the orchestral layers to reveal recorded voices from the congregation at the Great Ades Synagogue in Jerusalem,... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 21st April 2023
-
BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, Orchestral Choice
-
Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Winner - Best Orchestral Performance
-
Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Contemporary Music
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
-
Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Orchestral
2 CDs
$23.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
New,
John Adams: Girls of the Golden West Julia Bullock (Dame Shirley), Ryan McKinny (Clarence), Davone Tines (Ned Peters), Hye Jung Lee (Ah Sing), Daniela Mack (Josef Segovia), Paul Appleby (Joe Cannon), Elliot Madore (Ramón)
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, John Adams
The influence of Ives can be heard in the shifting layers; once a funeral march, now a Fourth of July celebration. As Dame Shirley, Julia Bullocks is on scintillating form, particularly as she... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
-
BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Opera Choice
2 CDs
$27.75Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
The tracks for voice and piano are a highlight. Bullock’s performance of ‘City Called Heaven’, a traditional Black spiritual in an arrangement by Hall Johnson, is quite something...The jazz-based... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, Choral & Song Choice
-
Record Review, 7th January 2023, Record of the Week
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year, Solo Vocal
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Young Talent of the Year
-
Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Winner - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Vocal
CD
$15.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Unlike much contemporary music, Shaw’s compositions exemplify what Simon Rattle long ago said about John Adams’s essence – that there’s always the sense of ‘moving forward in space’…The sophistication... — More…
Awards:
-
Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Winner - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
-
Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
-
The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Chamber
-
Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019)
CD
$15.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
John Adams: Doctor Atomic
RecommendedGerald Finley (Robert Oppenheimer), Julia Bullock (Kitty Oppenheimer), Brindley Sherratt (Edward Teller), Samuel Sakker (James Nolan), Andrew Staples (Robert Wilson), Jennifer Johnston (Pasqualita)
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Adams
Finley ‘owns’ the characterisation of J Robert Oppenheimer…and Julia Bullock’s Kitty [is] the most ardent possible. All else is compelling on every level, with superb British support from Brindley... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 29th June 2018
-
BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, Opera Choice
-
Gramophone Magazine, August 2018, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
-
Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Opera Recording
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Opera
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Opera (20th/21st century)
-
Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Opera
-
Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Winner - Opera
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Andriessen: The only one
RecommendedNora Fischer (soprano), Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen
It ’s plain that The only one is among the final works of this brilliantly influential composer. There’s no sense of waning powers nor any loss of iconoclastic spirit in its unnervingly surreal... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
-
Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Contemporary
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
-
Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Premiere
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
…Mehldau’s way is to pause and linger, to let the harmonic adventure be properly heard and savoured above everything else. — More…
CD
$15.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
A winning combination in the hands of virtuosos Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile. Despite musical backgrounds that are poles apart, their previous collaborations [testify] to an exhilarating... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, Chamber Choice
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Chamber Music Recording (Music up to and including 17th/18th Century)
CD
$15.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
The main event of After Bach II is the planting of Mehldau’s personal flag on one of the great Bachian peaks: seven tracks devoted to his take on the Goldberg Variations. — More…
CD
$15.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
The resultant work is expansively beautiful and this fine recording from Leila Josefowicz and the St Louis Symphony Orchestra captures both the energy and lyricism of Adams’s dazzling score.... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Editor's Choice
-
Record Review, 9th June 2018, Recording of the Week
-
Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Concerto
CD
$15.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
