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Schoenberg & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
RecommendedHilary Hahn (violin)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
The Schoenberg is simply astonishing. Hahn and Esa-Pekka Salonen shows how much beauty and brilliance there is in this work. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th May 2009
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Corigliano - Mr. Tambourine Man
RecommendedWorld Première Recording
Hila Plitmann (amplified soprano)
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
Hila Plitmann, with equal experience in opera, film and musical theatre, has exactly the right kind of natural, microphone-friendly delivery… — More…
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Simon Rattle conducts Stravinsky
RecommendedRecorded Live in September 2007
Berliner Philharmoniker & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle
The slow movements of both the Symphony in Three Movements and the Symphony in C are beautifully done. — More…
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Building a Library, October 2009, First Choice
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Choral Performance
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In No 1 (1951), the Pacifica find a near-perfect balance between the driving intensity of the Arditti and portentous grandeur of the Juilliard. In No 5 (1995) they, like the Arditti make the... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Classical Crossover Album
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Jean Belmont Ford's cycle Electa is a real discovery, performed with a naturalness and ease that carries one unerringly through very unfamiliar musical territory. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43
RecommendedChicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
With Haitink in charge of the Shostakovich, there can be no threat of exaggeration or distortion, no need to whip up a greater frenzy than the composer plotted. No conductor can make this long... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Orchestral Performance
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Prokofiev - Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3
RecommendedEvgeny Kissin (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy
When…Evgeny Kissin recorded his first Prokofiev concertos, he shied away from the insane challenges of the Second. Here… he surmounts these very much on his own terms… revealing the strong melodic... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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All three composers have so far written relatively little for solo piano: indeed, Steven Stucky's two brief sets of pieces, attractive if stylistically anonymous, are distinctly minor works.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2008, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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