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US Exclusive Premiere of Libera's newest music video: TIME

ANGEL RECORDS ARTIST — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

The distinctive sound of Libera has traveled the world in the last few years, topping both mainstream and the classical charts around the globe. The boys in the group, under the musical direction of Robert Prizeman, come together to produce truly extraordinary music, with results unlike any other vocal group around today.

Here is the US exclusive premiere of TIME from Libera's forthcoming album entitled PEACE - due out April 6th. Pre-order your copy here: http://bit.ly/9Aa2Lk

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: http://bit.ly/90Z5pH

TWO GRAMMY AWARDS FOR EMI & VIRGIN CLASSICS!

ANGEL RECORDS ARTIST — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

EMI Classics / Virgin Classics are proud to announce to have received two Awards at the 52^nd Annual Grammys, which were held in Los Angeles last night.

The Virgin Classics recording of Britten’s Billy Budd, featuring Ian Bostridge and Jonathan Lemalu amongst the soloists and conducted by Daniel Harding, won Best Opera Recording while Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra went to the EMI Classics release of Evgeny Kissin’s recording of Prokofiev’s piano concertos nos. 2 & 3 with the Philharmonia Orchestra / Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Many congratulations to our winners!

Here are the details of our winning recordings to highlight in your local press releases to be circulated immediately and for your trade and marketing initiatives around the winners:

Best Opera Recording
(Award to the Conductor, Album Producer(s) and Principal Soloists)

Britten: Billy Budd
(Vigin Classics)

Ian Bostridge, Neal Davies, Nathan Gunn, Jonathan Lemalu, Matthew Rose, Gidon Saks

Gentlemen Of The London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra / Daniel Harding
John Fraser, producer

Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (With Orchestra)(Award to the Instrumental Soloist(s) and to the Conductor)

Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3
(EMI Classics)

Evgeny Kissin, piano
Philharmonia Orchestra / Vladimir Ashkenazy

For a full list of winners - click here: http://bit.ly/6RhtTw

NY Times reviews Diana Damaru's Carnegie Hall performance

ANGEL RECORDS ARTIST — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Solid Renderings of Strauss and Other Stalwarts
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER

In “Grossmächtige Prinzessin” from Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos,” Zerbinetta takes a “Sex and the City” approach to heartbreak, coquettishly insinuating that the despairing Ariadne needs a rebound fling. On Sunday afternoon at Carnegie Hall, the stellar soprano Diana Damrau flirted her way through the treacherous vocal terrain of Zerbinetta’s showpiece aria, vividly accompanied by James Levine and the Met Orchestra.

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WNYC Soundcheck: Men With High Voices featuring Philippe Jaroussky

ANGEL RECORDS ARTIST — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Sing Out: Men With High Voices
January 21, 2010

In the second installment of Sing Out, our series about singing, we look at male vocalists who hit the high notes. The very high notes. Today: we hear about male sopranos in opera and discuss an enduring controversy, the rock falsetto. Guests include Chloe Veltman, host and producer of Voicebox, a weekly radio show on KALW-FM in San Francisco and the Bay Area culture correspondent for the New York Times; and the countertenor Philippe Jaroussky.

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http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/episodes/2010/01/21/segments/148376

Maestro Pappano nominated for a BBC Music Magazine Award. Vote Now.

ANGEL RECORDS ARTIST — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

To vote for your favourite go to:
http://www.bbcmusicmagazine.com/awards2010

Nominees for Best Choral Recording:
Michael Gielen with SWR SO & Vocal Ensemble - Stravinsky:vocal works.
Rene Jacobs with the Akademi fur Alte Musik Berlin - Telemann:Brockes-Passion.
Antonio Pappano with the National Academy of Santa Cecilia - Verdi: Messa da requiem.

NY Times reviews Philippe Jaroussky's NY recital debut at Weill Recital Hall

ANGEL RECORDS ARTIST — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Baroque Dexterity Applied to Dark French Passions
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER

Like most countertenors, the French singer Philippe Jaroussky has specialized in the Baroque repertory, recording a number of impressive discs, including music by Vivaldi.

For his current recital tour Mr. Jaroussky is venturing outside typical countertenor territory and exploring French mélodie, which made up the program for his New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall on Thursday. The concert featured excerpts from “Opium,” his new disc on the Virgin Classics label.

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Ionarts on Vivica Genaux

ANGEL RECORDS ARTIST — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Vivica Genaux's Attachment to Italy

by Charles T. Downey

Mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux has been in Vienna this fall, singing the title role of Rossini's Tancredi (we last heard her in Washington in Rossini, and in Baltimore before that) under René Jacobs and the role of Ernesto in Haydn's Il Mondo della luna under Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Marie-Aude Roux caught up with her in her apartment on the Kettenbrückengasse for an interview (Vivica Genaux, la cantatrice venue du froid, December 13) in Le Monde (my translation) ...

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High praise on Pappano's Verdi Requiem in San Francisco's Bay Area Reporter

ANGEL RECORDS ARTIST — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Extraordinary Sweep
by Timothy Pfaff

My own special relationship with the Verdi Requiem – nearly everyone who has heard the piece has one – includes coming within a hair's breadth of once being arrested by the Lao police simply for owning a recording of it. It's a long story that would take the rest of my word count to tell, but I can't help noticing that the experience has made me gun-shy of the Requiem ever since. The Italians have their superstitions about the piece; I have mine.

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The NY TIMES on the Leif Ove Andsnes Live at the Apple Store event on 12/03/2009

ANGEL RECORDS ARTIST — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Is It Live, or Is It iTunes? Apple Store as Recital Space

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

People passing by the new Apple Store on Broadway and 67th Street on Sunday evening noticed something unusual happening inside the spacious salesroom: a pianist playing a grand piano on a makeshift concert platform right next to the towering window wall.

The pianist was Leif Ove Andsnes, 39, one of today’s most respected artists, who the night before played the last of three performances of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic. Sunday evening’s informal free concert at the Apple Store was a new venture for the company. Apple has long presented live performers, including some notable classical musicians in recent years. Yet Mr. Andsnes is the first classical pianist to record live at an Apple store event, a company spokesman said.

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Live at the Apple Store: Leif Ove Andsnes - Sunday, January 3, 6:00 p.m.

ANGEL RECORDS ARTIST — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT

EMI Classics artists and Grammy-nominated pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has recorded over 30 classical music albums with a repertoire that spans from Bach to the present day. Called a "princely pianist" he has won four Gramophone Awards. Join us at the new Apple Store in New York City on the Upper West Side (1981 Broadway) for a not-to-be missed live performance.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 6:00 p.m.

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