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Rachel Portman: Tipping Points
Nick Drake (guitar), Grainne Dromgoole (speaker), WDR Funkhausorchester, Niklas Liepe (violin), Erina Yashima
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Classic Without Limits
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Vivaldi - Paganini - Tartini
Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), L'arte del mondo, Andreas Arend (lute), Massimiliano Toni (harpsichord), Werner Ehrhardt
Though Mönkemeyer’s playing has an evident sense of period, he’s not performance practice, he’s not hidebound by the imperatives of the time-honoured treatises. He revels in Paganini’s honeyed... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Behind the flowers, butterflies and soulful photos there lies some very classy piano-playing...Buniatishvili's playing is eloquent indeed: her voicing is expertly balanced in the opening Bach... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, Instrumental Choice
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Orff: Carmina Burana
RecommendedJudith Blegen (soprano), Kenneth Riegel (tenor), Peter Binder (baritone)
The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, The Cleveland Orchestra Boys Choir, The Cleveland Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Grammy Awards, 18th Awards (1975), Best Choral Performance
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Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez & Fantasía para un gentilhombre
RecommendedJohn Williams (guitar), Christine Pendrill (cor anglais)
The Philharmonia Orchestra, Louis Frémaux
robust, confident and utterly fluent playing —
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Building a Library, February 2017, Also Recommended
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Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Roger Norrington
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Building a Library, September 2012, First choice (single disc)
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Mason Bates: Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra
RecommendedMason Bates, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Edwin Outwater
This short-ish concerto for orchestra introduces the woodwind, string, brass and percussion families with dashes of jazz and techno. It’s a noble enterprise, with deeper ideals about human diversity... —
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Winner - Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Bruch: Scottish Fantasy
RecommendedJoshua Bell (violin/director)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Bell, now in charge of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, proves a capable conductor as well as, when required, a sumptuous Romantic violinist. He is fully aware of the performance practices... —
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Instrumental Solo
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Massenet: La Navarraise
Lucia Popp (Anita), Alain Vanzo (Araquil), Vincenzo Sardinero (Garrido), Gérard Souzay (Remigio), Claude Meloni (Bustamente), Michel Sénéchal (Ramon)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio de Almeida
Popp gives a high voltage performance in the title role and Alain Vanzo as her soldier lover is properly French vocally. The LSO under Antonio de Almeida play their espadrilles off! —
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Réédition
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Kozeluch: Concertos and Symphony
Sergio Azzolini (bassoon), Camerata Rousseau, Giovanni de Angeli (oboe), Leonardo Muzii
A contemporary of Mozart, Kozeluch doesn’t make any attempt to tug at the heart strings in these works. They are, however, gloriously convivial, and performed here with brio aplenty. Perfect... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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