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This month: EDWARD GARDNER Conductor

MY FINEST MOMENT

Britten Peter Grimes

Stuart Skelton, Erin Wall et al; Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Edward Gardner Chandos CHSA5250(2) (2020)

This tied up a lot of career loose ends, in a way, and was something special for me. It was a piece I’d done a lot over the years and it felt like the culmination of a great project, with one of the greatest casts ever assembled

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