20th Century Classics
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Messiaen - Turangalîla Symphony
RecommendedMichel Beroff, Jeanne Loriod, Yvonne Loriod, Wolfgang Meyer, Christoph Poppen & Manuel Fischer-Dieskau
London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn
Newly reissued, Previn's 1977 account dragged Turangalîla to mainstream attention. Previn excels at combing through Messiaen's thick layers, and the LSO are on fine form - am exhilarating souvenir... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2023, Recommended recording - Turangalila
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Georges Prêtre conducts Poulenc
RecommendedMaurice Duruflé, Gabriel Tacchino, Aimée Van der Weile, Francis Poulenc & Jacques Fevrier
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Maîtrise d'enfants de la Radiodiffusion Française, Ambrosian Singers & Philharmonia Orchestra, Georges Prêtre, Jacques Jouineau & Henriette...
This set usefully collects Poulenc's concertante works and throws in Les biches and the Litanies à la Vierge noire for good measure. Richly characterful accounts, though far from blemish-free. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection Winner
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Building a Library, May 2019, Also Recommended
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Falla - Spanish Songs, Noces en los jardines de Espana & Concerto
RecommendedVictoria de los Angeles (soprano), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) & Gonzalo Soriano (piano), with Gonzalo Soriano, Gonzalo Soriano, Michel Debost, Robert Casier, André Boutard, Pierre Nérini & Robert Cordier, Annie Challan & Jean-Claude Gérard
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre...
With Victoria de los Angeles startlingly authentic in rough-edged cante jondo style, and conductors like Giulini and Frühbeck de Burgos, this is a superb Falla sampler. — More…
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Building a Library, June 2009, First Choice (1925 version)
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Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht
Phyllis Bryn-Julson
Artemis Quartet, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate & Sir Simon Rattle
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Orchestral
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Tavener - The Protecting Veil
RecommendedRecorded: 24-28 January 1994, Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
Steven Isserlis (cello), Iain Simcock (handbells), Solveig Kringelborn, William Kendall, Donald Sweeney, Gavyn Wright, Maciej Rakowski, Boguslav Kostecki, Ben Cruft, Jackie Shave & David Dunnett
London Symphony Orchestra, Chilingirian Quartet, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Gennadi Rhozdestvensky,...
Excellent accounts of some of the best of Tavener's Orthodox/Byzantine-influenced works, full of mystery and serene faith. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Contemporary
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Prokofiev - Concertos
RecommendedEfrem Kurtz, Walter Susskind, Martha Argerich, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Michel Béroff & János Starker
Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle, Charles Dutoit, Lorin Maazel & Riccardo Muti
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Building a Library, January 2019, Also Recommended
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Paul Dukas: Symphony in C & L'Apprenti sorcier
John Ogdon (piano), Philippe Jaroussky & Jerome Ducros, Michael Thompson & Philip Fowke
Orchestre National de l'ORTF, Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Jean Martinon, Pierre Dervaux, Michel Plasson
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Despite Solchany's insights, Bartók's masterly pedagogical series of 153 piano pieces were never intended to be heard as a cycle, so grouping up to 23 pieces on each track and omitting titles... — More…
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Bartók: Concertos
Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Silvio Gualda & Jean-Pierre Drouet
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle, Eugene Ormandy, David Shallon
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Janacek - Glagolitic Mass, Sinfonietta, Piano Works & Songs
Felicity Palmer, Ameral Gunson, John Mitchinson, Malcolm King & Jane Parker-Smith, Mikhail Rudy (piano), with Ian Bostridge, Ruby Philogene, Diane Atherton, Deryn Edwards & Susan Flannery, Thomas Adès (piano), Pierre Amoyal (violin) & Mikhail Rudy (piano), with Mikhail Rudy
Philharmonia...
Full marks for breadth in a compilation balancing the familiar (an effortful Sinfonietta and wiry Glagolitic) with chamber music and Bostridge's Diary. Like the diarist, alas, the texts have... — More…
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