Building a Library
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Richard Strauss - Vier letzte Lieder and Other Lieder
RecommendedJessye Norman (soprano)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur
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Gramophone Awards, 1984, Winner - Solo vocal
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, July 2019, Also Recommended
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 50 – Tchaikovsky
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano)
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Both soloist and conductor seem committed to emphasising the architectural integrity of Tchaikovsky's musical thinking...Yet by keeping things moving and delivering performances that project... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2022, Also Recommended - 1st Concerto
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th March 2010
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Judging by their passionate performances, this British team clearly feel utterly at home in this repertoire...The hit, undoubtedly, is the premiere recording of Price’s structurally lopsided... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th May 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Editor's Choice
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English Royal Funeral Music RecommendedLes Trompettes des Plaisirs, Lingua Franca & Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
one might call it a classically 'English' choral sound - but any suspicions of coolness are easily dispelled by the commitment shown to the meaning of both music and text...Once again, Vox Luminis... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2013, Editor's Choice
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Régine Crespin: Shéhérazade RecommendedRégine Crespin (soprano)
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
Sumptuous of tone, supremely sensitive, Crespin was born to illuminate the art of French song. Whether floating the seductive allure of Ravel or revelling in the wit of Poulenc these recordings... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, September 2007, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Destination Rachmaninov - Arrival
RecommendedDaniil Trifonov (piano)
Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
In the First, he steers the music’s dramatic ebb and flow with total conviction, while also bringing tremendous clarity of fingerwork to its elaborate piano writing. Yannick Nézet-Séguin and... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Building a Library, January 2021
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Concerto Choice
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British Music Collection - Britten & Walton RecommendedPeter Pears (tenor), Dennis Brain (horn), Edith Sitwell (narrator)
Boyd Neel String Orchestra, English Opera Group Ensemble, Benjamin Britten, Anthony Collins
This disc includes one of the great highlights of the whole Britten discography, that first magical recording of the Serenade, with Pears in fresh, youthful voice and Dennis Brain's marvellous... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, November 1999, Historic Choice
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Schubert: Complete works for violin and piano
RecommendedAlina Ibragimova (violin) & Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Here we get all of Schubert's works written for violin and piano, in performances which it is hard to imagine ever being bettered...Alina Ibragimova and Cedric Tiberghien don't attempt to make... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted
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Building a Library, January 2017, Also Recommended
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th August 2013
2 CDs
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Gerhaher twins the Eichendorff Liederkreis with Schumann's four settings of poems by Hans Christian Andersen - and reveals, in minutely sensitive, sometimes harrowing performances their emotional... — More…
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Building A Library, September 2021, Also Recommended
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Vocal Award Winner
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2008, Disc of the Month
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
RecommendedChrista Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) & Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)
New Philharmonia & Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
Ludwig recorded Mahler’s great ‘symphony for alto, tenor and orchestra’ several times (including for Bernstein and Karajan), but I always find myself returning to this 1964 Klemperer account... — More…
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Building A Library, June 2021, Also Recommended
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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