Melos Ensemble
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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
RecommendedGalina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Simon Preston (organ)
London Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Highgate School Choir & The Bach Choir, Benjamin Britten
Britten was writing personally for three muses who had all shared the wartime experience...His incandescent commitment to pacificism and horror at the failure of humanism blazes forth...As you... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2009, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Britten: War Requiem
Recommended2023 remastering
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Simon Preston (organ), London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Melos Ensemble, Highgate School Choir & The Bach Choir, Benjamin Britten
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Technical Achievement
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Franck, Debussy & Ravel: Violin Sonatas
RecommendedKyung-Wha Chung, Radu Lupu & Osian Ellis
The Melos Ensemble
Here we have masterpieces from the French tradition in excellent performances that have won the status of recording classics. Kyung-Wha Chung and Radu Lupu are a fine duo who capture and convey... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2001, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2021, Also Recommended
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John Ireland - Sextet, Trios & Sonatas Yfrah Neaman (violin), Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) & Eric Parkin (piano), Emanuel Hurwitz, Ivor MacMahon (violins), Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Terence Weil (cello), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Neill Sanders (horn), André Navarra (cello) & Eric Parkin (piano), Yfrah Neaman (violin) & Eric...
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Mátyás Seiber: Ulysses, Elegy for Viola & Three Fragments Peter Pears (narrator), Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Alexander Young (tenor)
Dorian Singers & Melos Ensemble, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra & BBC Chorus, Mátyás Seiber, David Atherton
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Crosse: Orchestral Works Manoug Parikian (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, Norman Del Mar, Gyorgy Lehel, Colin Davis
Fifty years ago Crosse was at the forefront of his generation and this judicious overview of his 1960s output affirms why...Much the most substantial work here is the Second Violin Concerto... — More…
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Beethoven: The Complete Chamber Music with Winds Christian Ivaldi (piano), Michel Debost (flute), Helmut Deutsch (piano), Wolfgang Schulz (flute), Martin Jones (piano), David Pyatt (horn), Rudolf Buchbinder (piano), Frans Vester (flute), Martine Bakker (flute), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Éric Le Sage (piano), Claudio Bohórquez (cello), Jacqueline du...
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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
recorded live at Coventry Cathedral, May 1962
Heather Harper (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, Coventry Festival Choir, Boys of Holy Trinity, Leamington and Holy Trinity, Stratford, Meredith Davies (CBSO), Benjamin Britten (Melos)
Taken from a BBC recording, this single CD preserves the historic first performance in all its messy glory...[Harper] is at her peak, all gleaming beauty and commanding authority; and Peter... — More…
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100 Best Mozart Jack Brymer (clarinet), Christian Zacharias (piano), Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Daniel Barenboim (piano), Barry Tuckwell (horn), Lily Laskine (harp), Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Bruno Giuranna (viola), Thomas Allen (baritone), Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Ann...
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