Browse: Andrew Staples (tenor)
This page lists all recordings performed by Andrew Staples.
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Janáček: Katya Kabanova RecommendedAmanda Majeski (Katya), Katarina Dalayman (Kabanicha), Simon O'Neill (Boris), Andrew Staples (Tichon), Magdalena Kozená (Varvara), Ladislav Elgr (Kudrjas), Pavlo Hunka (Dikój)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
The LSO are on tremendous form throughout, and what follows is an unflinching journey into both beauty and darkness, as sensuousness repeatedly collides with incipient violence. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd February 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Recording of the Month
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Offer, Vaughan Williams: Retrospect London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron, Jack Liebeck (violin), Andrew Staples (tenor, Thomas Carroll (cello)
I’m happy to report that Michael Waldron secures splendidly articulate and idiomatic results from his assembled forces...First-rate sound and presentation. Don’t miss this one! — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50
RecommendedSally Matthews (Peri), Mark Padmore (narrator), Kate Royal (soprano), Bernarda Fink (alto), Andrew Staples (tenor), Florian Boesch (bass), Soloists from Guildhall School (Quartet)
London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
Vivid detail and clear choral textures come over quite stunningly on both formats, but the Blu-ray has the edge...Sally Matthews doesn't quite catch the ethereal quality Gardiner's Barbara Bonney... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th October 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Stravinsky: Perséphone
RecommendedAndrew Staples & Pauline Cheviller
Finnish National Opera, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Orchestral textures are clean yet sensuous, rhythms exactingly precise...In lesser hands, the score can seem episodic. Salonen, however, forges it into a unified drama, in which not a note or... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2018
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Vocal/Choral
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Handel: Messiah RecommendedErin Wall (soprano), Elizabeth DeShong (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor), John Relyea (bass-baritone)
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Astonishingly well controlled…the solo voices are rich and weighty…[the] flute provides a charming obbligato to ‘How beautiful are the feet’, while the tenor’s ‘Thy rebuke…’ is intensely moving…a... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Choral Performance
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This is perfect ground for Lindsey and Cohen, both extremely accomplished and transformative performers of Baroque music...Her extraordinary vocal evocations are complemented throughout by the... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Vocal
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John Adams: Doctor Atomic
RecommendedGerald Finley (Robert Oppenheimer), Julia Bullock (Kitty Oppenheimer), Brindley Sherratt (Edward Teller), Samuel Sakker (James Nolan), Andrew Staples (Robert Wilson), Jennifer Johnston (Pasqualita)
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Adams
Finley ‘owns’ the characterisation of J Robert Oppenheimer…and Julia Bullock’s Kitty [is] the most ardent possible. All else is compelling on every level, with superb British support from Brindley... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th June 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Opera Recording
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Opera (20th/21st century)
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Opera
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Winner - Opera
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Ralph Vaughan Williams; Lennox Berkeley; Peter Warlock: Colourise RecommendedLondon Choral Sinfonia, Roderick Williams, Andrew Staples, Elena Urioste, Michael Waldron
The Songs come in a version for string orchestra and piano, stripped down (by VW himself) from the full orchestral version used at the work’s premiere. The gain in intimacy is palpable in Michael... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Massenet: Thaïs Erin Wall (Thaïs), Joshua Hopkins (Athanaël), Andrew Staples (Nicias), Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
To Thaīs herself Erin Wall brings a clean, pliant soprano used with discretion and judgement…Dark of presence, Joshua Hopkins makes a vehement Athanaël…Davis presents a perceptive account of... — More…
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Record Review, 4th July 2020, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2020, Opera Choice
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Opera, October 2020, Disc of the Month
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Juno Awards, 2021, Nominated - Classical Album of the Year (Vocal or Choral)
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Martinů: The Epic of Gilgamesh
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor), Derek Welton (bass-baritone), Jan Martiník (bass), Simon Callow (narrator)
Czech Philharmonic Prague, Philharmonic Choir Vasilek, Manfred Honeck
All life is here in compressed mastery. Idiomatically conducted by Manfred Honeck and vividly recorded live in Prague’s Rudolfinum, this is the definitive performance of a 20th-century choral... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Record Review, 4th November 2017, Recording of the Week
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