Claron McFadden
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Birtwistle: Pulse Shadows
RecommendedClaron McFadden (soprano)
Arditti Quartet, Nash Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw
From Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire to Boulez's Le marteau sans maître and Kurtág's Messages of the late RV Troussova, modernist composers have used the medium of voice with mixed instrumental... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Contemporary
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2002, Editor's Choice
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Purcell: King Arthur, Z628
RecommendedVéronique Gens, Claron McFadden, Susannah Waters, Mark Padmore, Iain Paton & Jonathan Best
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
If the co-operation with John Dryden led to a unity of vision in terms of music's expressive role in the overall drama, Purcell was limited to a historical patriotic fantasy with little room... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Early Opera
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Building a Library, October 2018, Recommended Recording
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Le Louvre des Musiciens
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé
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Handel: Acis and Galatea
RecommendedClaron McFadden (Galatea), John Mark Ainsley (Acis), Rogers Covey-Crump (Damon), Michael George (Polyphemus), Robert Harre-Jones (alto)
The King's Consort, Robert King
A steady and lovely account, with Ainsley on top form. — More…
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Building a Library, March 2000, Second Choice
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Adès: America A Prophecy RecommendedSongs & Choral Works
Robin Blaze, Christopher Maltman & Susan Bickley
Polyphony & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Layton & Thomas Ades
Adès’s take on a Madness song about a stressed businessman is a hoot. Although Adès apparently did it from memory, it’s fairly accurate, right down to the piano’s cluster chords. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Contemporary
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Bach Cantatas Volume 18
Cantatas for Christmas Day, Cantatas for the First Sunday after Epiphany & Cantatas for the Feast of Epiphany
Claron McFadden (soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Sally Bruce-Payne (alto), Michael Chance (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Christopher Genz, Dietrich Henschel (baritones)
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
The two strongly contrasting arias [of BWV 63], both duets, are expressively sung but it is Bernarda Fink's beautifully controlled, extended recitative which stands out for its tender articulation...James... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2010, Editor's Choice
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Thomas Adès - America RecommendedSusan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Claron McFadden (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Huw Watkins )piano), Christopher Maltman (baritone)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Thomas Adès
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Contemporary
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Andriessen, L: La Commedia
Claron McFadden, Cristina Zavalloni, Jeroen Willems, Marcel Beekman
Dutch National Opera, Jan Maarten Koeman
it is encouraging to hear Andriessen himself shifting his language decisively away from everybody else's pigeonholed view of his music...Reinbert de Leeuw directs the combined ASKO and Schonberg... — More…
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Opera, October 2014, Recording of the Month
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