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Byrd Edition Volume 5 - The Masses RecommendedDavid Skinner
Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood
The singing is technically polished, the tuning faultless and the overall sonority rounded and rich. — More…
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Building a Library, December 2003, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2013, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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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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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
RecommendedCharlotte Margiono (soprano), Rodney Gilfry (baritone)
Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner's performance is notable for its intensity and fervour, and for the superb singing of his choir: splendidly firm and secure attacks and phrasing, always with fine tonal quality, meticulous... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Venetian Vespers
RecommendedFive Vespers of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin as it might have been celebrated in St. Marks in 1643
Timothy Roberts (organ)
Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Early Music
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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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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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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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