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MAJORS TRIUMPH IN GRAMMYS.
This year's Grammy Awards returned good results for Universal Classics, Warner Classics and Sony Classical. Universal captured the best classical album for Deutsche Grammophon's recording of the complete Shostakovich String Quartets with the Emerson Quartet, which was also voted to be the best chamber music performance. The yellow label also took best small ensemble performance (with or without conductor) for Shadow Dances, a collection of Stravinsky miniatures performed by the conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Cecilia Bartoli's Vivaldi Album brought Decca a Grammy for best classical vocal performance.
The Warner Classics stable of classical labels received best opera recording for Busoni's ...
- CBSO recording plans thrown into turmoil by Warner Classics closure.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) June 19, 2006 700+ words
...Editor Recording plans for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra have been thrown into disarray by the sudden closure of Warner Classics, the label for which it has made most of its CDs with music director Sakari Oramo. The first casualty is a recording of...
- Birmingham Post Weekend: CD REVIEWS: Foulds filled with grand passion; Foulds:...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) November 20, 2004 700+ words
...by programming several of his major works with the CBSO last season. Now we have a generouslyfilled Foulds release from Warner Classics, its cover bearing a striking painting by the composer's son Major John Patrick Foulds, who also contributes a fascinating...
- Britons at their best; John Foulds Malcolm Williamson Orchestral music Iceland...
- Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) April 30, 2006 700+ words
...pursuit of an obsession with Indian music. Foulds is often dismissed as a mere purveyor of salon music, but thanks to Warner Classics' indefatigable Matthew Cosgrove, we now know better. The main work on Warner's excellent new CD, with Sakari Oramo...
- CULT ABOVE THE OTHERS; WARNER CLASSICS; WIN; WIN boxed...
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) September 19, 1996 700+ words
Badlands (18, pounds 5.99) Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek are youngsters on a killing spree, more than 20 years before Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, pictured above. This compelling cult movie, based on a true story, had the same impact back in 1973 that Quentin Tarantino had with Reservoir
- CLASSICAL Live in Ramallah West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (Warner Classics, 2564...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) February 3, 2006 700+ words
Byline: BARRY MILLINGTON Armed troops guarded the rehearsal for this concert in the Cultural Palace in Ramallah last August. The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra was founded by Daniel Barenboim and the late Edward Said, with the aim of fostering cultural links between Israel and Palestine - surely one
- Classical Music Single Play: Mi Buenos Aires Querido Mederos, Console,...
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Philip Sweeney October 4, 1996 700+ words
The tango is terribly chic these days. Everyone's doing it: Clive James sneaks into a Brixton tango club for the occasional lap; even Daniel Barenboim, who spent the first nine years of his life in Buenos Aires and apparently revered Carlos Gardel, the sophisticated little tyke. Two years ago,
- CD REVIEWS: Variations on a theme; Classical CDs Rachmaninov: Paganini...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) February 12, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Christopher Morley The idea of assembling all three of Rachmaninov's major sets of variations for piano onto one disc is so brilliantly simple I am amazed it has not been done more often. This generous CD from Warner, set down at least partly in Symphony Hall (the confusion in this respect
- CD Reviews: CBSO unlocks an attractive feast of Nordic treasures; Grieg and...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) August 21, 2004 700+ words
Byline: Review by Christopher Morley Though their creators are probably the best-loved Nordic composers in this country, the orchestral songs of Grieg and Sibelius are still comparatively neglected over here. This new release (but set down at Symphony Hall nearly three years ago) from the CBSO and