GOLIJOV / BERIO
Ayre / Folk Songs Dawn Upshaw (soprano) with Tara O'Connor, Todd Palmer, Erik Friedlander & others [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] MARBECKS STAFF SURPRISE DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR 2006 - "Golijov's Ayre is the overwhelming reason to buy this: it's an intoxicating, endlessly haunting mixture of styles and musical cultures." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine March 2006 |
AARON COPLAND
Copland: Old American Songs / Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson / Billy the Kid Thomas Hampson, Dawn Upshaw /Saint Paul Chamvber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff [ Teldec Apex / CD - released 6/Jun/2005 ] BARGAIN OF THE MONTH MusicWeb October 2005 "Copland is in the first rank of those whose skill has created an American music, quite distinct from that of their own roots. A great disc." (MusicWeb Oct 2005) |
Elly Ameling / Kathleen Battle / Arleen Auger / Barbara Hendricks / Dawn Upshaw / Marie McLaughlin / Prague Chamber Orchestra / Sir Charles Mackerras
Divine Sopranos (music of Berlioz, Handel, Mahler, Vivaldi, Richard Strauss, etc) [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 11/Aug/2003 ] More than any other singer, the public has always been enticed by the scandals and mysteries that surround the diva. Because of this curiosity and genuine love for the soprano voice, there has always been a strong interest in the recordings. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Rodelinda / Theodora (complete operas recorded in 1996 & 1998) plus A Night with Handel Glyndebourne Festival Opera / Anna Caterina Antonacci, Kurt Streit, Andreas Scholl, Dawn Upshaw, David Daniels / William Christie (cond) [ Warner Classics NVC Arts / 3 DVD Box Set - released 4/Feb/2017 ] "Jean-Marie Villegier's brilliant, unnerving production...A great show - don't miss it." The Guardian on Rodelinda |
Golden Dawn
Power Plant [ CD - released 7/Apr/2009 ] |
The Golden Dawn
Power Plant [ International Artists / Charly / CD - released 9/Aug/2010 ] |
DARIUS MILHAUD
Darius Milhaud: Une Vie Heureuse - anniversary edition Various artists incls Dawn Upshaw, Jane Bathori, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jeanne Loriod (onde Martenot) Yvonne Loriod (piano) Quatuor Bernède, etc [ Warner Classics Erato / 10 CD Box Set - released 16/Nov/2014 ] Distinctively French, yet cosmopolitan in his personal and artistic horizons, Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was adventurous, prominent, and prolific. A pupil of Dukas and d'Indy, he became a member of Les Six and a distinguished teacher in the USA and... |
Nataly Dawn
How I Knew Her [ Nonesuch / CD - released 15/Feb/2013 ] 'How I Knew Her' - comprising 12 autobiographical, introspective songs by Dawn - was produced by her longtime partner Jack Conte. |
W. A. MOZART
Lucio Silla (complete opera recorded in 1990) Cecilia Bartoli, Peter Schreier, Dawn Upshaw, Edita Gruberova, Yvonne Kenny / Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec / Warner Classics The Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 4/May/2009 ] |
Taking Dawn
Time to Burn [ Roadrunner Records / CD - released 8/Mar/2010 ] Taking Dawn is a rock 'n roll time bomb just waiting to explode on an unsuspecting public with its Roadrunner debut, 'Time to Burn'. |
KAIJA SAARIAHO
Passion De Simone Dominique Blanc (narrator), Dawn Upshaw (soprano) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Ondine SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] "Upshaw's always seems the perfect voice and sensibility for Saariaho's music; and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Saariaho's colleague from their student days, is an intensely engaged and sympathetic director of his forces and of the score." Five Stars BBC Music |
BBC television cast with Dawn French, Gary Waldhorn, James Fleet & Emma Chambers
The Vicar Of Dibley [ BBC World of Comedy / CD - released 20/Nov/2009 ] Dawn French and all the cast star in very first two episodes ("Arrival" and "Songs Of Praise") of ever-popular sitcom, written by Richard Curtis. |
DURUFLE / FAURE / MOZART / BRAHMS / SCHUBERT / etc
Sacred: Inspirational and Spirtual Music for Choir and Orchestra Various Artists including the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Robert Shaw Festival Singers, Dawn Upshaw, etc [ Telarc Records / CD - released 18/Jun/2006 ] Slow down and take a momentary pause, compliments of Telarc. Breathe: The Relaxing Harp, the fourth in a series of wonderful relaxing recordings from the distinguished classical label, is the perfect entree to an interlude of quiet in an otherwise... |