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Messiaen - Turangalîla Symphony RecommendedMichel Beroff, Jeanne Loriod, Yvonne Loriod, Wolfgang Meyer, Christoph Poppen & Manuel Fischer-Dieskau
London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn
Newly reissued, Previn's 1977 account dragged Turangalîla to mainstream attention. Previn excels at combing through Messiaen's thick layers, and the LSO are on fine form - am exhilarating souvenir... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2023, Recommended recording - Turangalila
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Georges Prêtre conducts Poulenc RecommendedMaurice Duruflé, Gabriel Tacchino, Aimée Van der Weile, Francis Poulenc & Jacques Fevrier
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Maîtrise d'enfants de la Radiodiffusion Française, Ambrosian Singers & Philharmonia Orchestra, Georges Prêtre, Jacques Jouineau & Henriette...
This set usefully collects Poulenc's concertante works and throws in Les biches and the Litanies à la Vierge noire for good measure. Richly characterful accounts, though far from blemish-free. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection Winner
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Building a Library, May 2019, Also Recommended
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Penderecki: Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima & Symphony No. 1 Wanda Wilkomirska (violin), Siegfried Palm (cello), Felicja Blumental (harpsichord), Sabine Meyer (clarinet) & Alfons Kontarsky (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Krakow Philharmonic Chorus, Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki
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Falla - Spanish Songs, Noces en los jardines de Espana & Concerto RecommendedVictoria de los Angeles (soprano), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) & Gonzalo Soriano (piano), with Gonzalo Soriano, Gonzalo Soriano, Michel Debost, Robert Casier, André Boutard, Pierre Nérini & Robert Cordier, Annie Challan & Jean-Claude Gérard
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre...
With Victoria de los Angeles startlingly authentic in rough-edged cante jondo style, and conductors like Giulini and Frühbeck de Burgos, this is a superb Falla sampler. — More…
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Building a Library, June 2009, First Choice (1925 version)
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Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht Phyllis Bryn-Julson
Artemis Quartet, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate & Sir Simon Rattle
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Orchestral
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Prokofiev - Concertos RecommendedEfrem Kurtz, Walter Susskind, Martha Argerich, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Michel Béroff & János Starker
Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle, Charles Dutoit, Lorin Maazel & Riccardo Muti
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Building a Library, January 2019, Also Recommended
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Tavener - The Protecting Veil RecommendedRecorded: 24-28 January 1994, Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
Steven Isserlis (cello), Iain Simcock (handbells), Solveig Kringelborn, William Kendall, Donald Sweeney, Gavyn Wright, Maciej Rakowski, Boguslav Kostecki, Ben Cruft, Jackie Shave & David Dunnett
London Symphony Orchestra, Chilingirian Quartet, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Gennadi Rhozdestvensky,...
Excellent accounts of some of the best of Tavener's Orthodox/Byzantine-influenced works, full of mystery and serene faith. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Contemporary
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Henze - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 9 Ian Bostridge (tenor) & Julius Drake (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunkchor, Berlin & Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle, Ingo Metzmacher
Listening to these compelling performances one can understand why the composer was attracted to Bostridge's unique vocal qualities and timbre. — More…
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Schreker: Chamber Symphony & other works Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Aribert Reimann
Camerata Academica Salzburg, Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, James Conlon, Fabio Luisi, Hans Bauer, Daniell Revenaugh
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Janacek - Glagolitic Mass, Sinfonietta, Piano Works & Songs Felicity Palmer, Ameral Gunson, John Mitchinson, Malcolm King & Jane Parker-Smith, Mikhail Rudy (piano), with Ian Bostridge, Ruby Philogene, Diane Atherton, Deryn Edwards & Susan Flannery, Thomas Adès (piano), Pierre Amoyal (violin) & Mikhail Rudy (piano), with Mikhail Rudy
Philharmonia...
Full marks for breadth in a compilation balancing the familiar (an effortful Sinfonietta and wiry Glagolitic) with chamber music and Bostridge's Diary. Like the diarist, alas, the texts have... — More…
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