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The Sound of the Trumpet
RecommendedPeter Hurford (organ), Alan Stringer (trumpet), Gwynne Howell (bass), John Wilbraham (trumpet), Philip Jones (trumpet), Leslie Pearson (organ)
The Michael Laird Brass Ensemble, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, London Festival Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner,...
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Bartók: The Wooden Prince & Cantata Profana RecommendedJohn Aler (tenor), John Tomlinson (baritone)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Pierre Boulez
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Grammy Awards, 36th Awards (1993), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 36th Awards (1993), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 36th Awards (1993), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 36th Awards (1993), Classical Album of the Year
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Walton: Symphony No. 1 & Belshazzar's Feast
RecommendedThomas Hampson (tenor, baritone)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
This is a winning coupling, with Walton’s two searing masterpieces from the 1930s given electrifying performances…Rattle with players he knows so well combines expressive freedom with knife-edged... — More…
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Building A Library, July 2022, First Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' RecommendedCheryl Studer, Angela Maria Blasi, Sumi Jo, Waltraud Meier, Kazuko Nagai, Keith Lewis, Thomas Allen, Hans Sotin
Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Giuseppe Sinopoli
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Holst: The Planets & Ligeti: Lux aeterna Boston Symphony Orchestra, New England Conservatory Chorus, Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, William Steinberg, Helmut Franz
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' RecommendedPilar Lorengar (soprano), Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano), Stuart Burrows (tenor), Martti Talvela (bass)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Sir Georg Solti
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Grammy Awards, 30th Awards (1987), Best Orchestral Performance
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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... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1999, Winner - 20th Century Orchestral
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Berio: Sinfonia & Concerto for Two Pianos
RecommendedLuciano Berio, Antonio Ballista (piano), Bruno Canino (piano)
Pierre Boulez
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Gramophone Awards, 1977, Winner - Contemporary
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Grammy Awards, 12th Awards (1969), Best Choral Performance
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Paraschivescu and La Floridiana draw us into Martines's music through exquisite detailing...The archness of Martines's phrasing, the delicacy of her dancing pulses, and the sly timing of her... — More…
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