Christine Brewer
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Mahler: The Complete Symphonies
RecommendedArleen Augér (soprano - Symphony No. 2), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo -Symphony No. 2), Birgit Remmert (contralto - Symphony No. 3), Amanda Roocroft (soprano - Symphony No. 4), Christine Brewer (soprano), Soile Isokoski (soprano), Juliane Banse (mezzo-soprano), Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano), Jane Henschel...
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Engineering
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Orchestral
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Recording of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building A Library, April 2022, Recommended Recording
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Great Strauss Scenes
Christine Brewer (soprano), Eric Owens (bass-baritone)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles
Brewer sails through the test. Her Elektra is a young woman shocked into life by the arrival of Orestes...her voice lightened to give her youth as she waits; and then comes a seemingly unstoppable... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Recital
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, Opera Choice
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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American Classics - William Bolcom
RecommendedMeasha Brueggergosman, Ilona Davidson (soprano), Joan Morris (mezzo-soprano), Nathan Lee Graham (baritone), Thomas Young (tenor), Tommy Morgan (harmonica), Peter Ruth (harmonica, vocals)
University of Michigan School of Music Symphony Orchestra & Musical Society, Leonard Slatkin
This is a magnum opus that occupied Bolcom for 25 years, starting as early as 1956. He's drawn on a wide range of musical styles to parallel Blake's method of moving from sophisticated to almost... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2005, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Classical Album of the Year
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Strauss: Ariadne on Naxos
Sung in English: translation by Christopher Cowell
Christine Brewer (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Robert Dean Smith (Bacchus/The Tenor), Alice Coote (Composer), Gillian Keith (Zerbinetta), Stephen Fry (Major-Domo), Alan Opie (Music Master), John Graham-Hall (Dancing Master/Scaramuccio), Roderick Williams (Harlequin), Matthew Rose (Truffaldino), Wynne Evans...
Brewer's luscious Ariadne had to be captured on disc...There's another essential performance from Alice Coote...with unflinchingly full top notes that few other genuine mezzos possess...I've... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Opera Choice
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Christine Brewer (Leonore), John MacMaster (Florestan), Daniel Borowski (Don Fernando), Juha Uusitalo (Don Pizarro), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Rocco), Sally Matthews (Marzelline), Andrew Kennedy (Jaquino)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
…Colin Davis's conducting of the London Symphony Orchestra and the vocal forces is so impressive that it ranks with the greatest accounts I have ever heard of this work… Christine Brewer is... — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Christine Brewer (soprano), Soile Isokoski (soprano), Juliane Banse (mezzo-soprano), Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano), Jane Henschel (mezzo-soprano), Jon Villars (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) & John Relyea (bass)
Toronto Children’s Chorus, City Of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus,...
Never have the fragments of first-movement themes, bouncing and billowing on a sea of azure blue, come across more clearly; never has the essential naivety of Mahler's vision been more convincing.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2005, Disc of the Month
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
John Treleaven (Tristan), Christine Brewer (Isolde), Dagmar Peckova (Brangaene), Peter Rose (Konig Marke), Boaz Daniel (Kurwenal), Jared Holt (Melot), Eugene Ginty (Hirt), Jonathan Lemalu (Steuerman), Mark Le Brocq (Stimme eines jungen Seemanns)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles
…the Tristan of John Treleaven… makes a great deal of the part, and rises to noble heights in Act III. Christine Brewer is quite stupendous, the finest Isolde I have heard for decades… There... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, Opera Choice
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Weber: Der Freischütz
RecommendedChristine Brewer (Agathe), Sally Matthews (Ännchen), Lars Woldt (Kaspar), Simon O’Neill (Max), Stephan Loges (Ottokar/Zamiel), Martin Snell (Kuno), Gidon Saks (A Hermit), Marcus Farnsworth (Kilian), Lucy Hall (Bridesmaids)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
This is a sincere reading of the work, but sincerity should not be confused with a lack of sophistication. The orchestral textures are pristine, the tempos and colours bracing and plaintive,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th May 2013
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Pianist and presiding spirit Roger Vignoles takes us on a select chronological jaunt, making sure Brewer boldly goes to the heart of the bigger numbers where lesser voices would fear to tread.... — More…
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Mariss Jansons conducts Gustav Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 9
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
The SACD sound is excellent throughout and absolutely no audience noise is discernible... Overall, the high standard of playing and Jansons’ attachment to clarity and detail are this sets greatest... — More…
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