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Messiaen - Turangalîla Symphony RecommendedMichel Beroff, Jeanne Loriod, Yvonne Loriod, Wolfgang Meyer, Christoph Poppen & Manuel Fischer-Dieskau
London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn
Newly reissued, Previn's 1977 account dragged Turangalîla to mainstream attention. Previn excels at combing through Messiaen's thick layers, and the LSO are on fine form - am exhilarating souvenir... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2023, Recommended recording - Turangalila
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Georges Prêtre conducts Poulenc RecommendedMaurice Duruflé, Gabriel Tacchino, Aimée Van der Weile, Francis Poulenc & Jacques Fevrier
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Maîtrise d'enfants de la Radiodiffusion Française, Ambrosian Singers & Philharmonia Orchestra, Georges Prêtre, Jacques Jouineau & Henriette...
This set usefully collects Poulenc's concertante works and throws in Les biches and the Litanies à la Vierge noire for good measure. Richly characterful accounts, though far from blemish-free. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection Winner
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Building a Library, May 2019, Also Recommended
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Tavener - The Protecting Veil RecommendedRecorded: 24-28 January 1994, Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
Steven Isserlis (cello), Iain Simcock (handbells), Solveig Kringelborn, William Kendall, Donald Sweeney, Gavyn Wright, Maciej Rakowski, Boguslav Kostecki, Ben Cruft, Jackie Shave & David Dunnett
London Symphony Orchestra, Chilingirian Quartet, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Gennadi Rhozdestvensky,...
Excellent accounts of some of the best of Tavener's Orthodox/Byzantine-influenced works, full of mystery and serene faith. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Contemporary
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Falla - Spanish Songs, Noces en los jardines de Espana & Concerto RecommendedVictoria de los Angeles (soprano), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) & Gonzalo Soriano (piano), with Gonzalo Soriano, Gonzalo Soriano, Michel Debost, Robert Casier, André Boutard, Pierre Nérini & Robert Cordier, Annie Challan & Jean-Claude Gérard
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre...
With Victoria de los Angeles startlingly authentic in rough-edged cante jondo style, and conductors like Giulini and Frühbeck de Burgos, this is a superb Falla sampler. — More…
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Building a Library, June 2009, First Choice (1925 version)
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Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht Phyllis Bryn-Julson
Artemis Quartet, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate & Sir Simon Rattle
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Orchestral
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Prokofiev - Concertos RecommendedEfrem Kurtz, Walter Susskind, Martha Argerich, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Michel Béroff & János Starker
Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle, Charles Dutoit, Lorin Maazel & Riccardo Muti
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Building a Library, January 2019, Also Recommended
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Glazunov: The Seasons & Violin Concerto Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Nathan Milstein (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Lovro von Matacic, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Anatole Fistoulari
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Despite Solchany's insights, Bartók's masterly pedagogical series of 153 piano pieces were never intended to be heard as a cycle, so grouping up to 23 pieces on each track and omitting titles... — More…
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Shostakovich - Symphony No. 1 & Concertos John Ogdon (piano), Sarah Chang (violin), Han-Na Chang (cello)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Lawrence String Quartet, London Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, Lawrence Foster, Sir Simon Rattle, Antonio Pappano
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Respighi - Rome Trilogy Christine Rice, Dame Janet Baker
Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Roma, Philadelphia Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, City of London Sinfonia, Antonio Pappano, Riccardo Muti, Neville Marriner, Richard Hickox
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