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Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage
RecommendedRobert Murray (Mark), Rachel Nicholls (Jenifer), Ashley Riches (King Fisher), Jennifer France (Bella), Toby Spence (Jack), Claire Barnett-Jones (Sosostris), Susan Bickley (She-Ancient), Joshua Bloom (He-Ancient), London Philharmonic Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Unexpectedly, it’s the second pair of lovers, Bella and Jack, admirably sung by Jennifer France and Toby Spence, who capture your ear...It’s the villain who almost steals the show. Ashley Riches... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Winner - Opera
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Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust
Karen Cargill (Marguerite), John Irvin (Faust), Christopher Purves (Méphistophélès), Jonathan Lemalu (Brander), London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Edward Gardner
this performance by the London Philharmonic under its principal conductor offers consistently high orchestral standards and focused participation from the assembled choirs, who show skill in... — More…
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Vladimir Jurowski conducts Zemlinsky
RecommendedHeike Wessels (mezzo soprano), Sergey Skorokhodov (tenor) & Albert Dohmen (baritone), Petra Lang (mezzo soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Jurowski demonstrates a masterly control of dramatic pace, ratcheting up the tension slowly but surely so that the final denouement reaches a devastating climax. The LPO proves superbly responsive... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd June 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Jessye Norman sings Strauss: Five Songs & Salome
Jessye Norman (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt
Norman adds lustre to the already burnished orchestral playing in five songs, familiar from her studio version with Masur. Interpretatively there’s not much to choose between them, but she’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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London Philharmonic Orchestra 75th Anniversary
Box Set Volume 3: 1983-2007
Lucia Popp (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) & René Pape (bass), Jane Eaglen (soprano), Birgit Remmert (contralto), Deon van der Walt (tenor) & Alfred Muff (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Mozart-Chor Linz, Klaus Tennstedt,...
The other jewel is Tennstedt’s Beethoven: Ninth Symphony, crackling with nervous energy from the start and showcasing the LPO’s intuitive relationship with its late lamented German chief. — More…
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Wagner: Die Walküre: Act 1
René Kollo (Siegmund), Eva-Maria Bundschuh (Sieglinde) & John Tomlinson (Hunding)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt
The chief cause of ecstasy is the inspired playing of the LPO, whose intensity is electrifying: the opening storm is enough to show what we can expect, and despite the broad tempos – this is... — More…
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Busoni: Doktor Faust
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Faust), Richard Lewis (Mephistopheles), Ian Wallace (Wagner), Heather Harper (Duchess of Parma) & John Cameron (Duke of Parma)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Sir Adrian Boult
strongly cast, with a magisterial account of the title role from Dietrich Fischer Dieskau. Heather Harper is in radiant form as the Duchess of Parma, and Richard Lewis acquits himself well in... — More…
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Mark-Anthony Turnage: Orchestral Works Vol. 2
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Martin Robertson (soprano saxophone), Gerald Finley (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin Alsop
In Hidden Love Song the soprano saxophone's lyricism has that slightly acrid urban feel that typifies so much of Turnage's best work… Full marks to Sarah Conolly and Gerald Finley for the conviction... — More…
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