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| | NewOlde.com - Best Early Music CD Awards 2004 |
 | | This is an exceptional recording of sonatas for violin and harpsichord and one sonata for unaccompanied violin. | | | I was relieved to discover a state-of-the-art studio recording rather than a live recording with substandard, bootleg quality sound, as, for example, in the disappointing recordings of Vivaldi's Rosmira Fedele by Dynamic and Farnace by Alia Vox. | | | This is an exceptional harpsichord recording, comparable in recorded sound quality to Sempé's deutsche harmonia mundi CDs from the early 1990s. |
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| | Thomas Z. Shepard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Thomas Z. Shepard is a recording producer who is most well-known for his recordings of Broadway musicals, especially the works of Stephen Sondheim. | | | He has produced all the original cast recording of Sondheim, in addition to the original cast recordings of Mame, Gypsy and the revived No, No, Nanette. | | | 1973 - Best Classical Album, Bartok-Concerto for Orchestra, producer |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Z._Shepard
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| | Music Collaborators |
| | They never made a commercial recording together, but they did give concerts together, and this disc reminds you how lucky you’d have been to be in their presence. | | | The Music and Arts label has just issued a CD with a live performance of Schubert’s B-flat Trio with three of the greatest musicians of the 20th century, pianist Artur Schnabel, violinist Joseph Szigeti, and cellist Pierre Fournier. |
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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/music/other_stories/documents/02678228.htm
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| | EMI Classics Biographies ANGELA GHEORGHIU |
| | Angela Gheorghiu recorded Gounod's Roméo et Juliette for EMI Classics (released in April 1998) and a second album of Verdi duets, Verdi per due, with Roberto Alagna, and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (released in October 1998). | | | She returned to Puccini with a recording of Gianni Schicchi (from Il Trittico), which was released in February 1999. | | | The recording is all that could be wished." Gramophone, Recording of the month, December 2001. |
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http://www.emiclassics.com/artists/biogs/gheor.html
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| | William and Gayle Cook Music Library: Special collections |
| | The Thomas Binkley Early Music Recordings Archive is a research collection of vinyl, compact disc, and cassette recordings of repertoire composed before the end of the Baroque period. | | | Recordings are shelved in closed stacks, and are restricted to listening in the Music Library. | | | The 10,000 long-playing vocal recordings that form the Ross Allen Collection served as a resource for Allen's long-running Sunday Opera radio broadcast on Indiana University's station WFIU. |
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http://www.music.indiana.edu/collections/special.html
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| | NPR : The Classical Side of the Grammys |
| | Best Opera Recording: "Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro," Rene Jacobs, conductor; vocal soloists Patrizia Ciofi, Veronique Gens, Simon Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager and Lorenzo Regazzo; Concerto Koln. | | | Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra) : "Andre Previn: Violin Concerto/Bernstein: Serenade," Andre Previn,conductor; Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin (Boston Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra). | | | Performance Today, February 14, 2005 · The 47th annual Grammy Awards were presented on Sunday night honoring musical recordings in 107 categories from rock to rap. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4498129&sourceCode=RSS
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| | PlaybillArts: News: René Jacobs, John Adams Lead Grammy Nominations |
| | Jacobs' recording of Le nozze di Figaro, which won Gramophone magazine's Record of the Year in October, was nominated both for Best Classical Album and for Best Opera Recording. | | | A recording of Higdon's City Scape and Concerto for Orchestra by conductor Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra was also nominated in the Best Classical Album, Best Orchestral Performance, and Best Classical Contemporary Composition categories (the latter for Concerto for Orchestra). | | | In addition, a recording of Adams' Road Movies by Leila Josefowicz and John Novacek was nominated for Best Chamber Music Performances, and a DVD of his opera The Death of Klinghoffer received a nomination in the Best Long Form Music Video category. |
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http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/916.html
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| | The World's Very Best Opera For Kids - Dealer Access Only |
| | The Children’s Group, celebrated for its best-selling and award-winning classical music recordings for children, is pleased to announce the forthcoming release of The World’s Very Best Opera for Kids… in English – a CD that will change the way children -- their parents, grandparents, and teachers – perceive opera for generations to come. | | | The World’s Very Best Opera for Kids CD and Teacher’s Guide/CD combination are distributed in Canada and the United States by Naxos, the world’s leading independent classical music label. | | | The recording debuted at #33 (tied with Placido Domingo) two weeks ago and is steadily climbing the Canadian chart. |
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http://www.worldsverybestoperaforkids.com/sections/dealers/press.htm
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| | classical music - andante - 2005 grammy nominations feature jennifer higdon, john adams, rené jacobs, emmanuelle ... |
| | Surprisingly, the Colin Davis/London Symphony recording of Britten's opera Peter Grimes was nominated for Best Classical Album overall but not for Best Opera Recording. | | | In the Best Opera Recording category, two conductors received two nominations each: René Jacobs (for Mozart's Nozze di Figaro and Scarlatti's Griselda) and Emmanuelle Haïm (for Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Graham and Ian Bostridge). | | | Each of the nominees for Best Contemporary Composition is present in at least one other category as well; two (Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls and Higdon's Concerto for Orchestra) were nominated for Best Classical Album. |
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http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=24852
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| | The solo recordings Alagna has made for EMI Classics have won him enormous praise, and the couple's first disc,Duets and Arias (EMI 5 56117-2), was a runaway success. | | | The award-winning couple stole the show at the UK Gramophone Awards last November, receiving three prizes in total, including the coveted Record of the Year and Best Opera Recording for La Rondineand the additional Classic FM People's Choice award for their disc of Duets and Arias. | | | EMI Classics is proud to announce the release of a new disc of Verdi's operatic duets, titled Verdi per due,in which Alagna and Gheorghiu are joined by the Berlin Philharmonic under their music director Claudio Abbado. |
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http://www.emiclassics.com/newreleases/oct98/alapress.html
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| | WNYC - Music - Atlanta Symphony Sweeps Classical Grammys |
| | Last year, another in-house label garnered a trophy: the London Symphony Orchestra's recording of Berlioz' Les Troyens on its LSO Live label won best album and best opera recording. | | | Teldec also collected the Grammy for Best Opera Recording, which was awarded for Daniel Barenboim's recording of Tannhauser with the Staatkapelle Berlin. | | | The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's recording of Vaughn Williams' A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1) was a big classical winner at the 45th annual Grammy Awards, taking three honors: for Best Classical Album, Best Choral Performance, and Best Engineered Album. |
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http://www.wnyc.org/music/articles/12106
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| | The Orchestra of Opera North |
| | In 2005, the Opera North Orchestra is participating in the Leeds International Concert Season and the Leeds Conductors' Competition and the Kirklees Concert Season. | | | In the operatic field Opera North has made several important recordings, including Waltonâs Troilus and Cressida conducted by Richard Hickox, which won the prestigious Gramophone Award for best opera recording. | | | Universally praised by audiences and critics alike, the Orchestra is the only ensemble in the country to have a year-round dual role in the opera house and concert hall. |
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| | CED Timeline of Historical Events for 1981 |
| | Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) (tie) Berg, "Concerto for Violin and Orchestra"; Stravinsky, "Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra," Itzhak Perlman; Seiji Ozawa conducting Boston Symphony Orchestra Brahms, "Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Cello" (Double Concerto), Itzhak Perlman and Mstislav Rostropovich; Bernard Haitink conducting Concertgebouw Orchestra | | | Best Chamber Music Performance "Music for Two Violins," (Moszkowski, "Suite for Two Violins"; Shostakovich, "Duets"; Prokofiev, "Sonata for Two Violins"), Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman | | | Best Historical Reissue Album "Segovia: The EMI Recordings 1927-39" |
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| | Susan Graham: What's New |
| | Graham's 'When I am laid in earth' is masterfully gauged." In addition to the album's GRAMMY nomination for Best Opera Recording, Dido and Aeneas has recently appeared in several "Best of 2004" CD picks, including those in Billboard and The New York Times. | | | It was chosen as one of the top classical recordings of 2004 by the Chicago Tribune, and as "DVD of the Month" in the November issue of The Gramophone. | | | Susan Graham is featured in the pivotal role of Erika in a new Chandos recording of Samuel Barber's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Vanessa, released last month. |
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http://www.susangraham.com/new_grammy.htm
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| | NewOlde.com - Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck |
| | I prefer this recent recording with a contralto Orfeo to the Kuijken and Gardiner recordings with René Jacobs and Derek Lee Ragin respectively. | | | Very poor recorded sound on this live recording. | | | This sounds like an unrehearsed production recorded through a crack in the ceiling. |
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http://www.newolde.com/gluck.htm
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| | CNN - 1998 Grammy Awards |
| | The same song was honored as the best rock vocal performance by a duo or group. | | | As the music world bestowed its top honors, Bob Dylan, less than a year after he suffered a life-threatening heart infection, won best album and best contemporary folk album for "Time Out of Mind." A song from that album, "Cold Iron Bound," also was honored as best rock song. | | | Jakob Dylan won as a composer of the best rock song, "One Headlight," performed by his band, the Wallflowers. |
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http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9802/25/grammys/index.html
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| | Grammy Award - KnowledgeIsFun.com |
| | However, the Grammys, usually held in February, (last of what are considered the "big three" music awards shows, including the BMA and AMA shows) are considered the approximate equivalent to the Oscars, in the music world. | | | Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television | | | Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra - Primarily Not Jazz or for Dancing |
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| | GRAMMY.com |
| | The BEST CLASSICAL ALBUM field is dominated by distinguished opera recordings and a pair of fine contemporary-music programs. | | | Violist Kim Kashkashian illuminated the ruminative â¦And Then I Was In Time Again by Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian, while four-time GRAMMY winner Anne-Sophie Mutter reveled in the luxurious romance of a Violin Concerto written especially for her by her husband, the distinguished composer-conductor André Previn, as well as the high spirits of Leonard Bernstein's Serenade. | | | Conductor David Lloyd-Jones was cited for his recording of British composer Arnold Bax's lush, atmospheric Symphony No. 7 and tone poem Tintagel with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. |
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| | Grammy Awards of 1976 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus | | | Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra) | | | Harry Wayne Casey, Willie Clarke, Richard Finch and Betty Wright (songwriters) for "Where Is the Love" performed by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Awards_of_1976
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| | Ben Heppner - News |
| | On March 15, 2001 the CBC aired their recording of the "My Secret Heart" concert which Ben performed with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, in Ottawa, on July 18, 2000. | | | His live performances of Aeneas in "Les Troyens" with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis won him the 2001 Grammy Award both for Best Classical Album and for Best Opera Album. | | | The Airs Francais CD was released November 13, 2001 -- Click here for discography information -- Click here for audio excerpts of five of the songs. |
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| | After a decade of building her career as a classical and opera recitalist to perform with some of the world's most renowned orchestras, the powerfully voiced mezzo-soprano hit another peak this spring by sharing in two Grammy Awards for classical music. | | | Mezzo-Soprano Shares in Two Grammy Awards This Year for Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording | | | 2002: Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording (with the London Symphony Orchestra) for "Berlioz: Les Troyens." |
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http://www.csun.edu/~hfoao102/@csun.edu/csun01-02/csun0402_02/music.html
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| | Julius Rudel |
| | His many opera recordings include Massenet's Manon and Cendrillon, Boito's Mefistofele, Verdi's Rigoletto, Bellini's I puritani, Weill's Silverlake and Lost in the Stars, Ginastera's Bomarzo, and Handel's Giulio Cesare which won the Schwann Award for Best Opera Recording. | | | He also directed the BPO's commemorative LP recording with CBS Masterworks featuring music of the holiday season. | | | At the age of 17 he emigrated to the United States and enrolled in the Mannes School of Music in New York. |
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| | It's sort of like the juxtaposition of two first-wave punk bands by record label. | | | They learned (the opera) phonetically." Floyd said the general director for the Lyons Opera, Jean-Pierre Brossman, did not know the piece, but the intrigue generated from the conductor's and the principals' enthusiasm for the piece prompted the choice of Susannah for recording. | | | Virgin Classics' recording of Susannah , composed by UH M.D. Anderson Professor Carlisle Floyd, won the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in the classical music category at the March 1 ceremony. |
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http://www.stp.uh.edu/vol60/95-03-10.html
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| | French culture music Gramophone Awards 2001 |
| | Widely regarded as the most prestigious awards for classical music recordings, the Gramophone Awards are known as the 'Oscars' of the field and are organized by Gramophone Magazine, a Media Partner of Frenchculture.org. | | | Gramophone''s Best Opera Recording award went to EMI Classics' recording of French composer Jules Massenet's Manon, (EMI Classics 57005) with conductor Antonio Pappano leading the La Monnaie Orchestra (Brussels). | | | The production was singled out for its riveting direction in a format whose sound clarity and vision 'seems tailor-made to bring opera into the living room without compromise'. |
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http://www.frenchculture.org/music/events/01gramawards.html
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| | Sony Classical - News |
| | In addition, pianist Emanuel Ax's recording of the Chopin Piano Concerto No.1 was awarded the "Prix Chopin" for the best Chopin recording of the year. | | | Voice of an Angel, the debut album from Charlotte Church, was certified Platinum by the Record Industry Association of America on November 2, indicating sales of one million copies. | | | At 13 years old, Charlotte is the youngest classical artist to ever achieve a gold record, and "the youngest solo recording artist to receive platinum status" according to the RIAA. |
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http://www.sonyclassical.com/news/awards07.html
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| | Playbill News: Wicked’s Cast Album Wins Grammy Award |
| | The awards go to album producer(s), and to the lyricist(s) and composer(s) of 51 percent or more of a new score. | | | for more classical music, opera, dance and jazz news and features. | | | The other nominees in the Best Musical Show Album category were: |
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http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91197.html
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| | Mason Gross School of the Arts - Music |
| | As part of Gunther Schuller’s handpicked orchestra he was involved in the recording of Brahms’ First Symphony and Beethoven’s Fifth for a collaborative CD to Mr. | | | Kathryn collaborated with violist Michael Tree on an all Dvorak CD and composer Easley Blackwood on recordings released by Cedille Records. | | | Career Highlights: is an internationally recognized artist who has appeared in oratorio, opera, recital, and as a performer of chamber music throughout the US, Europe as well as in Canada and Asia, receiving praise for his performance of a wide range of styles from diverse musical periods. |
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http://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/music/mus_f_all.php
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| | Juno Award (1995): Best Classical Album: Vocal or Choral Performance: Ben Heppner Sings Richard Strauss. | | | Gramophone Award: Record of the Year and Best Opera Recording: Rusalka, Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor. | | | Juno Award (2001): Best Classical Album: Vocal or Choral Performance: Airs Français. |
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http://www.benheppner.com/Awards.html
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| | Gramophone - News - The world's best classical music magazine |
| | Among his achievements with the ensemble is a recording of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, voted best opera recording in the 2003 Gramophone Awards. | | | Last year he became music director of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. | | | Gramophone - News - The world's best classical music magazine |
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http://www.gramophone.co.uk/newsMainTemplate.asp?storyID=2228&newssectionID=1
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| | OperaNights |
| | Monteverdi's three greatest operas are being released on DVD in a stylish series of productions staged by De Nederlandse Opera. | | | Our recommended selection of seven operas for anyone new to opera, and wanting advice about where to begin in building a collection on CD or DVD. | | | Welcome to OperaNights™, an independent guide to the best opera recordings available on CD and DVD. |
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| | S A N F R A N C I S C O C L A S S I C A L V O I C E |
| | Of the 42 Pulitzer Prize-winning composers on the label, at least 30 were recorded by CRI before they won the award. | | | He has a poor track record of meeting deadlines and commitments. | | | The upcoming CDs include the complete Bach violin concerti with Hilary Hahn, Margaret Batjer joining her in the Double Violin Concerto, and Allan Vogel (due in Santa Rosa next month to play the Strauss Oboe Concerto) featured with Hahn in the violin-oboe concerti. |
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| | OPERA COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA |
| | In 1993, the Lyric Opera of Chicago mounted a new production of the opera with Renee Fleming and Samuel Ramey in the leading roles. | | | The following year, Virgin Classics issued a recording featuring Kent Nagano conducting the Lyon Opera Orchestra and Chorus with Cheryl Studer, Samuel Ramey, and Jerry Hadley in the principal roles. | | | Floyd also completed a large-scale work for chorus, bass-baritone soloist, and orchestra entitled A Time to Dance, commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association and performed by the famed Westminster Choir and the San Antonio Symphony at the Association’s Biennial Convention in March 1994. |
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| | The PLAY Lists >> The Best Opera CDs of 2000 |
| | Pappano recorded two Massenet operas, Werther and Manon, and worked with Barbara Bonney on Diamonds in the Snow and with Plácido Domingo and Deborah Voigt on their recording of Wagner Love Duets. | | | Of the sources that cover opera and vocal music, I weighted Opera News at 1.25. | | | (An asterisk identifies the No. 1 recording in each category.) CDs from TAS got 8 points each, because there were between 30 and 40 albums listed. |
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http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/LIBRARY/PLAY/2001/playlist_opera_2000.html
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| | Nucci Leo - Welcome to the offical Webpage |
| | He has produced more than 40 official records and videos with some of the most important record companies. | | | At the Met, Nucci also produced records and videos. | | | nucci, leo, Nucci, Leo, baritone, oper, opera, singer, verdi, puccini, bariton, singers, voice, vocal, recital, classical, grand, CD, cd, duet, soloist, solo, libretto, chorus, aria, ensemble, orchestra, performances, crossover, music, lieder, song, sänger, 'Leo Nucci' |
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| | Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year. | | | The award was originally titled Best Classical Opera Production. | | | Steven Paul (producer), John Nelson (conductor), John Aler, Kathleen Battle, Michael Chance, Mark S. Doss, Marilyn Horne, Neil Mackie, Sylvia McNair, Samuel Ramey, the Ambrosian Opera Chorus and the English Chamber Orchestra for Handel: Semele |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Opera_Recording
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| | Madison Opera > About > Artistic Advisor |
| | In 1976, he led a history-making production of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, recorded it for RCA and won the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording of the Year. | | | Critics and the public alike are lavish in their praise of Maestro DeMain and his contributions to the Madison musical community in this, his tenth year, as Artistic Advisor for Madison Opera and Music Director/Conductor for the Madison Symphony Orchestra. | | | Winning the Youngstown Symphony Piano Competition at the age of eighteen, he went on to earn Bachelor's and Master's degrees of Music at the Juilliard School in New York. |
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| | Behrens: CD and Video Recordings |
| | The Most Expensive Record Ever Made when it was undertaken in 1989/90/91 | | | 1992 Shortlisted for Gramophone Award for Record of the Year | | | Orfeo d'or - #560012 (July 16, 2001; recorded live 1978) |
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http://www.ffaire.com/behrens/hbdisc.html
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| | CAMI News |
| | SHARON ISBIN won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance without Orchestra for her diverse folk-inspired "Dreams of a World" album. | | | The Best Classical Crossover Album Grammy went to "Appalachian Journey," with MARK O'CONNOR, Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer. | | | She is the first guitarist to win the award in 30 years. |
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http://www.cami.com/news/getpress.asp?press=3
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| | Maw: Violin Concerto Joshua Bell, violin; Sir Roger Norrington, conductor (London Phil. | | | The Vivaldi Album (Dell'aura al sussurrar; Alma oppressa, Etc.) Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo soprano (Arnold Schoenberg Chor; Giovanni Antonini; Il Giardino Armonico) [Decca Records] | | | Category 92 - Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra) |
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http://www.wshu.org/music/Grammys.asp
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| | French culture Music Grammy Awards 2002 |
| | In addition, France's harmonia mundi label was nominated in four categories: Best Classical Vocal Performance (Arias For Farinelli/Genaux), Best Small Ensemble Performance (Handel Complete Violin Sonatas/Manze), Best Choral Performance (Bach St.John Passion / Herreweghe), and Producer of the Year, Classical for Robina Young, Artistic Director for harmonia mundi usa. | | | Stephen Hough's recording of the the Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns (Hyperion) | | | Pianist Earl Wild's recording of French composer Reynaldo Hahn's Le Rossignol Éperdu - Poèmes Pour Piano (Complete) |
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http://www.frenchculture.org/music/events/02grammy.html
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| | VocalEssence general choral and opera recordings |
| | British feminist Ethel Smyth's epic Mass in D (1891, revised 1925), Mrs Waters' Aria from her comic opera The Boatswain's Mate, and her anthem to the suffragette movement, March of the Women. | | | Winner of the 1988 British Gramophone Award for Best Opera Recording. | | | Eiddwen Harrhy, soprano; Janis Hardy, alto; Dan Dressen, tenor; James Bohn, bass; Chorus of the Plymouth Music Series with orchestra; Philip Brunelle, conductor. |
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| | Gino Quilico: Home |
| | Opera Recording in 1995 for Les Troyens (Decca). | | | Born in Flushing, New York and residing in Montreal, Canada, Mr. | | | Grammy Award winner, as a principal soloist, for Best |
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| | Jerry Hadley, tenor: biography |
| | Myron Fink (1997 San Diego Opera); the title role in THE GREAT GATSBY by John Harbison (1999-2000 Metropolitan Opera) and, most recently, A WEDDING by William Bolcom (2004 Lyric Opera of Chicago, libretto and stage direction by esteemed film director Robert Altman and based on Altma's 1978 film of the same name). | | | His stylistic ease and exuberant embrace of the music of Broadway theater, Viennese and American operetta and American popular song make him one of today's most versatile artists. | | | He is a prolific recording artist with dozens of titles to his credit. |
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| | OperaWorld.com's North American Opera Zone- THE HANDMAID'S TALE: Background |
| | The new work, recently released on the Dacapo label, was nominated for two 2002 Grammy Awards (Best Opera Recording and Best Classical Contemporary Composition) and received the 2002 Cannes Classical Award for best work by a living composer. | | | Atwood's near future dystopia is just as misguided and barbaric, yet its atrocities are hardly new - all are drawn from human record. | | | Atwood cleverly appends her opus with Historical Notes, a symposium set almost two centuries later, during which Professor Pieixoto discusses the unearthed cassette tapes, onto which we now learn Offred recorded her story. |
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| | Les Troyens |
| | The recording "has an excitement born of the glowing sheen of perfection," writes Joshua Rosenblum in the November 2001 issue of | | | , with Michelle De Young and Ben Heppner and the London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, received the 2002 Gramophone Award for best opera recording of the year. | | | article on the best classical compact discs of 2001, The Economist |
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