Knoxville: Summer of 1915

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Grammy Award Winner
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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."

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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.”

 

 

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

Nonesuch Selection Number

79187

Number of Discs in Set
1disc
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115
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310
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0
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0
Album Status
Available
Artist Name
Dawn Upshaw
MusicianDetails

MUSICIANS
Dawn Upshaw, soprano

Orchestra of St. Luke's
David Zinman, conductor

Cover Art
UPC/Price
Label
CD+MP3
UPC
075597918724BUN
Label
MP3
Price
8.00
UPC
603497076864

  • 79187

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  • About This Album

    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