Naxos - 50% off Hi-Res
Until 11th September 2024, we are offering 50% off Naxos Hi-Res downloads - a great opportunity to build your digital library in the highest possible sound quality.
Naxos - 50% off Hi-Res, Marin Alsop (conductor)
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It is rare to be able to say that a performance forces one to listen to a work anew, but this is exactly what Alsop's reading achieves. Excellently recorded and with an elegant and witty performance... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Orchestral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, Disc of the month
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Building a Library, November 2023, Also Recommended - Symphony No. 9
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Special offer. Barber: Orchestral Works Volume 1
RecommendedRoyal Scottish National Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Under Marin Alsop's sensitive guidance, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra has found the heartbeat of this music. — More…
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Building a Library, June 2006, Budget Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Alsop and her Bournemouth band capture [On the Waterfront] as surely and atmospherically as they do the glitzy exuberance of On the Town...it reeks of adrenaline, and brutal oppression...It... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2003, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Bernstein: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
The performances are predictably excellent. In No. 1, the imposing first movement is presented with fervour, and the Copland-like central scherzo with lightness and precision; Jennifer Johnson... — More…
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Record Review, 14th January 2017, Recording of the Week
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Symphonic Recording (20th/21st-century music)
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Special offer. Bernstein: Mass
RecommendedJubilant Sykes (baritone)
Morgan State University Choir, Peabody Children's Chorus, Morgan State University Marching Band & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
…is a virtual triumph from beginning to end, and the only recording for me worthy of sitting next to the composer's own. …Alsop's tight-knit, symphonic pacing delineates the structure of the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2009, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Editor's Choice
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Care for detail is apparent...[Alsop's] sense of line is at its most impressive in the way in which the slow movement is sustained and the unfolding of the joyous second theme in the finale...as... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2020, Also Recommended
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Pluto, written in 1997 to be attached to Holst’s The Planets, is notably dark and muscular, more so indeed than its later British equivalent, Colin Matthews’s Pluto, the Renewer...Marin Alsop... — More…
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Special offer. Barber: Orchestral Works Volume 3
RecommendedJames Buswell (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Marin Alsop
James Buswell is a refined, sensitive soloist in the Concerto, warm without being soupy — More…
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Building a Library, January 2002, Budget Choice
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Special offer. John Adams - Shaker Loops
Nathan Gunn (baritone)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
A near-perfect Adams Primer containing his tender and powerful meditation, to words by Walt Whitman, on the subject of those lost to AIDS.
Touchingly performed by Nathan Gunn. — More…Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2004, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. John Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
In every respect, this disc is a must for all fans of John Adams and Marin Alsop. The performances and recording are terrific, and the programme provides a good range of the composer’s style…... — More…
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