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The Romantic Piano Concerto 27 - Saint-Saëns
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
If Saint-Saëns's idiom once answered – and maybe still does – to qualities fundamental to the French musical character, it must be said straight away that Hough sounds the complete insider. He... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2001, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Gold Disc
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Andsnes penetrates the psyche of this music, and his playing of consummate artistry and insight. Not only does he have keen poetic feeling but magisterial pianistic finesse. — More…
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Building a Library, May 2007, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2002, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Richard Strauss: Orchestral Songs
RecommendedSoile Isokoski (soprano)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
Strauss singing doesn't come much better than this. No doubt the composer himself, with his love of the soprano voice, would have been enthralled by Isokoski's glorious singing. He might also... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2002, Disc of the Month
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
RecommendedKarita Mattila, Thomas Moser, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Quasthoff, Philip Langridge
Rundfunkchor Berlin, MDR-Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Ernst Sennf Choir, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2002, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, March 2017, First Choice
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The Takács do a fine job here: controlled, well paced and impeccably balanced.
They manage to balance the music's vertical and horizontal aspects beautifully, long-breathed contrapuntal lines... — More…Awards:
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Building a Library, September 2002, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Chamber
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2002, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 45th Awards (2002), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Building a Library, November 2012, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Orchestral
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Building A Library, March 2022, Also Recommended
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedBen Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam), Guang Yang (Hécube), Isabelle Cals (Ascagne), Tigran Martirossian (Panthée), Bülent Bezdüz...
So what's so special about the performance? Try Canadian tenor Ben Heppner, outdoing his fellow countryman Jon Vickers on Sir Colin's first recording of Les Troyens. The other principals are... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2012, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2001, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, November 2011, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Historic Reissue
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Hummel - Masses Volume 1 RecommendedSusan Gritton (soprano)
Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox
When the glories of Haydn's late Masses have been widely appreciated, it's sad that Hummel's have been so neglected.
They are for chorus and orchestra alone, without soloists, which may have... — More…Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Finalist - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Choral
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Gluck: Italian Arias RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
on this disc Cecilia Bartoli makes clear that Gluck was a formidable musical dramatist even in his early, pre-'reform' works...This CD, in short, is a tour de force of dramatic singing, in the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Recital
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2001, Disc of the Month
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Grammy Awards, 44th Awards (2001), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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