John Relyea
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Mahler: The Complete Symphonies RecommendedArleen Augér (soprano - Symphony No. 2), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo -Symphony No. 2), Birgit Remmert (contralto - Symphony No. 3), Amanda Roocroft (soprano - Symphony No. 4), Christine Brewer (soprano), Soile Isokoski (soprano), Juliane Banse (mezzo-soprano), Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano), Jane Henschel...
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Engineering
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Orchestral
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Recording of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building A Library, April 2022, Recommended Recording
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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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Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle Michelle DeYoung (mezzo), John Relyea (bass)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Gardner is extremely good at the ‘big moments’…But Bartok seeks extreme, unspoken reaches of the soul and the Bergen Philharmonic does not always seem to seek them with him…The two singers are... — More…
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Opera, January 2020, Disc of the Month
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Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Gregory Kunde (Cellini), Laura Claycomb (Teresa), Darren Jeffery (Balducci), Andrew Kennedy (Francesco), Isabelle Cals (Ascanio), John Relyea (Pope Clement VII), Peter Coleman-Wright (Fieramosca), Jacques Imbrailo (Pompeo)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
The combination of technology and the conductor's unimpaired élanmakes for glowing textures and shattering climaxes. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' Christine Brewer (soprano), Soile Isokoski (soprano), Juliane Banse (mezzo-soprano), Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano), Jane Henschel (mezzo-soprano), Jon Villars (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) & John Relyea (bass)
Toronto Children’s Chorus, City Of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus,...
Never have the fragments of first-movement themes, bouncing and billowing on a sea of azure blue, come across more clearly; never has the essential naivety of Mahler's vision been more convincing.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2005, Disc of the Month
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Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621
Rainer Trost (Tito), Magdalena Kozená (Sesto), John Relyea (Publio), Hillevi Martinpelto (Vitellia), Lisa Milne (Servilia), Christine Rice (Annio), Ronald Schneider (fortepiano)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus, Sir Charles Mackerras
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Britten: Billy Budd
RecommendedNathan Gunn (Billy), Ian Bostridge (Captain Vere), Gidon Saks (Claggart), Neal Davies (Redburn), Jonathan Lemalu (Flint), Matthew Rose (Ratcliffe), Andrew Kennedy (Novice), Matthew Best (Dansker), Roderick Williams (Novice's Friend)
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Daniel Harding
…this is a good, often exciting performance, but Hickox and especially Britten are hard acts to follow. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 52nd Awards (2009), Best Opera Recording
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Meyerbeer: Robert Le Diable Bryan Hymel (Robert), Patrizia Ciofi (Isabelle), John Relyea (Bertram), Marina Poplavskaya (Alice), Nicolas Courjal (Alberti), David Butt Philip (Master of Ceremonies), Pablo Bemsch (Second Chevalier/Herald), Ashley Riches (Prince of Granada), Jihoon Kim (Fourth Chevalier/Priest), Jean-Francois Borras...
Meyerbeer's vocal writing demands virtuoso singing, and receives that here. Bryan Hymel hurls himself unstintingly at the title role, impossible high notes and all. Marina Poplavskaya suggests... — More…
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Poulenc: Le Voix Humaine & Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle Barbara Hannigan (Elle), Ekaterina Gubanova (Judit), John Relyea (Bluebeard)
Paris Opera Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Krzysztof Warlikowski
A solid, uncontroversial staging of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle which works well – with two outstanding performers – bonded to a perverse one of Poulenc’s monodrama which does not. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Video Performance
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Davis was seemingly Berlioz’s disciple on earth, and this was the glorious late flowering of his love for the composer…Les Troyens crackles with a theatricality that outshines even the pioneering... — More…Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Best Collection
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