Reference Recordings
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Emporium - Music of Aldo López-Gavilán
Aldo López-Gavilán (piano), Ricardo Morales (clarinet), Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Butterman
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Kurt Sander: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
RecommendedPaTRAM Institute Singers, Peter Jermihov
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Choral Performance
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Far in the Heavens
RecommendedChoral Music of Stephen Paulus
Kathryn Mueller (soprano), Thea Lobo (mezzo-soprano), Owen McIntosh (tenor), Matthew Goinz (baritone), Sara Fraker (oboe), Christine Vivona (harp)
True Concord Voices, True Concord Orchestra, Eric Holtan
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Friml's Piano Trio of 1916 - a single- movement rhapsody titled Rural Life in Bobemia - is the main discovery on this imaginatively programmed release...Like everything on this album, it's played... —
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Requiem: Mozart's Death in Words and Music
F. Murray Abraham, Jeanine De Bique (soprano), Catriona Morison (mezzo), Ben Bliss (tenor), Tareq Nazmi (bass); Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Westminster Choir, The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Manfred Honeck
Honeck's is an exciting performance of the Requiem, with a crisp Kyrie, a nimble-footed Domine Jesu and a Dies Irae, which, though played and sung with absolute precision, evokes a whirlwind... —
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There’s an excellent dynamic range and lots of detail emerges very naturally, which is just what you want in scores like these. The accompanying documentation is excellent; the composer writes... —
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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New. Andy Akiho: Beneath Lighted Coffers; Concerto For Steel Pans & Orchestra
Oregon Symphony, Andy Akiho, David Danzmayr
this album brings together two substantial works by steel pannist Andy Akiho, a composer known for bringing theatricality and drama to large-scale percussion works. Those are brought to life... —
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It comprises 21 tenors, nine baritones, seven basses and five profundos, and is very much a tenor-dominated sound with little obvious resonance from the lowest voices. This gives it all a fervent... —
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Choral Performance
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The orchestra plays magnificently under the well-paced leadership of Martin West. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Ninety seconds is all it takes to understand that Manfred Honeck’s is no sanitized Beethoven: the plethora of colorations, articulations and moods through which he forces the Fifth’s famous... —
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