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American Classics
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The E minor No. 1 starts on the same ground as Dvořák’s New World, but soon charts different terrain…all played with rhythmic élan, beguiling colour and evident joy. If not every corner is neat,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Special offer. Jennifer Higdon: All Things Majestic
RecommendedRoberto Díaz (viola), James Button (oboe)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
[All Things Majestic] The piece conveys a marvellous sense of wonder in the vastness and minutiae of the natural world, from the soaring brass chorales of 'Teton Ridge' to the raindrop delicacy... —
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Classical Compendium
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Special offer. John Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance
RecommendedORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
In every respect, this disc is a must for all fans of John Adams and Marin Alsop. The performances and recording are terrific, and the programme provides a good range of the composer’s style…... —
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Orchestral Performance
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Special offer. Rouse: Symphony No. 5, Supplica & Concerto for Orchestra
RecommendedNashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero
One of Rouse’s first musical loves was Beethoven, and he turns to the German’s iconic Fifth Symphony in a homage that radiates joy in invention…Not just Beethoven, but Nielsen and Copland are... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2020), Winner - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Some discs are recommendable just because they present appealing, well-played programs in good sound at a great price. In such cases, comparisons are not the issue; we can enjoy them as a concert... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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American Classics - Amy Beach
RecommendedAlan Feinberg (piano)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Schermerhorn
Composed in 1898-9, Amy Beach's ambitious, singularly impressive Piano Concerto is at long last coming in from the cold. An expansively rhetorical Allegro moderato launches the work before a... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2003, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
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Ives - The Three Orchestral Sets
RecommendedMalmö Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus, James Sinclair
James Sinclair leads excellent performances. The Malmo Symphony sounds comfortable in the American idiom, and the recording is spacious, sweet sounding in the strings…You should have the Naxos... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2008, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Bernstein: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
The performances are predictably excellent. In No. 1, the imposing first movement is presented with fervour, and the Copland-like central scherzo with lightness and precision; Jennifer Johnson... —
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Record Review, 14th January 2017, Recording of the Week
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Symphonic Recording (20th/21st-century music)
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Special offer. Michael Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway, American Gothic & Once upon a Castle (Live)
RecommendedZuill Bailey (cello) & Paul Jacobs (organ)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
Strikingly impressive performances of wittily crafted and accessible contemporary large-scale orchestral scores. —
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Compendium
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Under Marin Alsop's sensitive guidance, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra has found the heartbeat of this music. —
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Building a Library, June 2006, Budget Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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