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A New Century
Orchestral Works by Beethoven, Varèse, Staud, R. Strauss, Deutsch & Prokofiev
Paul Jacobs (piano)
Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst
Overall, [the performances] paint a picture of sovereign technical command, with an upholstered warmth of tone not automatically in the DNA of American orchestras…the Cleveland Orchestra has... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, Recording of the Month
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His interpretation [of the Gershwin] is exceptionally clear (the crystalline recorded sound helps a great deal), and dances and shimmies without getting carried away. Some may find it a tad... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Special offer. Varèse: The Complete Works
RecommendedSarah Leonard (soprano), Mireille Delunsch (soprano), François Kerdoncuff (piano), Jacques Zoon (flute)
Concertgebouw Orchestra, ASKO Ensemble, Men of the Prague Philharmonic Choir, Riccardo Chailly
Riccardo Chailly's 1996 account [of Amériques] is unlike any of its competitors in that it reconstructed for the first time Varèse's original version of the score from 1918-21, which uses a... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1999, Winner - 20th Century Orchestral
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Varèse - The Complete Works
RecommendedSarah Leonard (soprano), Mireille Delunsch (soprano), François Kerdoncuff (piano), Jacques Zoon (flute)
Concertgebouw Orchestra, ASKO Ensemble, Men of the Prague Philharmonic Choir, Riccardo Chailly
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Gramophone Awards, 1999, Winner - 20th-Century Orchestral
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American Mavericks
Jeremy Denk (piano), Paul Jacobs (organ)
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
This is one of the boldest pieces of programming to have come my way in a long time...Tilson Thomas turns in a superb performance, remarkable as much for the delicacy of the quiet moments as... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 44th Awards (2001), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building a Library, May 2009, Modern Choice
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Varese
RecommendedPierre Boulez (director), New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Beauregard (flute), Rachel Yakar (soprano), Ensemble Intercontemporain
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Grammy Awards, 21st Awards (1978), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Ingo Metzmacher conducts R. Strauss & Varèse
Wei Lu (violin)
Deutches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ingo Metzmacher
Ein Heldenleben [is] remarkably primarily for the forward momentum of Ingo Metzmacher's performance, the overall excellence of the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester's playing and the sympathetic... —
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Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky & Varèse: Orchestral Works (Live)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
Varèse’s massive Amériques isn’t a work that would be generally associated with him. Yet this meticulously assembled performance, with every detail superbly played and recorded, is as vivid... —
