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    1989 Grammy Award Winner

    This Nonesuch debut, featuring Samuel Barber's title piece, garnered Upshaw a Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. "If you want just one recording of Knoxville," says Gramophone, "it should be Upshaw's. In no other version is the intimacy of Barber's music so poignantly conveyed." The Washington Post called Knoxville “dreamily evocative” and declared Upshaw “one of the most impressive young singers on the American scene.”

     

     

    Credits

    MUSICIANS
    Dawn Upshaw, soprano

    Orchestra of St. Luke's
    David Zinman, conductor

    PRODUCTION CREDITS
    Recorded August 1988 at Manhattan Center Studios, New York City
    Engineer: John Newton
    Assistant engineer: Henk Kooistra
    Production coordinator: Jennifer Keats

    Front cover photograph: Joel Meyerowitz
    Back cover photograph: Joyce Ravid

    Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz

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on May 29, 2008 - 7:14pm
genre: 
Classical
Grammy Award Winner
Release Date: 
Friday, May 5, 1989 - 04:00
DescriptionExcerpt: 

This Nonesuch debut, featuring Samuel Barber's title piece, garnered Dawn Upshaw a Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. "If you want just one recording of Knoxville," says Gramophone, "it should be Upshaw's. In no other version is the intimacy of Barber's music so poignantly conveyed."

Description: 

1989 Grammy Award Winner

This Nonesuch debut, featuring Samuel Barber's title piece, garnered Upshaw a Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. "If you want just one recording of Knoxville," says Gramophone, "it should be Upshaw's. In no other version is the intimacy of Barber's music so poignantly conveyed." The Washington Post called Knoxville “dreamily evocative” and declared Upshaw “one of the most impressive young singers on the American scene.”

 

 

ProductionCredits: 

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Recorded August 1988 at Manhattan Center Studios, New York City
Engineer: John Newton
Assistant engineer: Henk Kooistra
Production coordinator: Jennifer Keats

Front cover photograph: Joel Meyerowitz
Back cover photograph: Joyce Ravid

Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz

Cover Art: 
Nonesuch Selection Number: 

79187

Number of Discs in Set: 
1disc
ns_album_artistid: 
115
ns_album_id: 
310
ns_album_releasedate: 
Monday, May 1, 1989 - 04:00
ns_genre_1: 
0
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0
Album Status: 
Available
UPC/Price: 
Label: 
CD+MP3
UPC: 
075597918724BUN
Label: 
MP3
UPC: 
603497076864
Price: 
8.00
Artist Name: 
Dawn Upshaw
MusicianDetails: 

MUSICIANS
Dawn Upshaw, soprano

Orchestra of St. Luke's
David Zinman, conductor

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