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‘T his admirable recording confirms
that the Royal Academy of Music
has issued another winner’
Gramophone, November 2006
‘W hile the big record companies
flounder, the independents flourish.
The Royal Academy of Music’s
own label is a case in point, with
some jolly good recordings in its
catalogue’
Metro, June 2006
Working in the recording industry is Academy recordings are regularly broadcast
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Live recordings of Royal Academy Opera
increasingly central to the careers of many by BBC Radio 3, Classic FM and the BBC productions of Marriage of Figaro with
performers. The Academy’s excellent World Service, and can be heard online

Sir Colin Davis, The Cunning Little Vixen
recording facilities are available for producing at the Naxos Music library. Discs are available with Sir Charles Mackerras and a
demo tapes, and the Business for Musicians for sale through the Academy Chimes shop, highlights disc of Rameau’s Dardanus
module of the BMus programme includes and selected discs are distributed with Laurence Cummings
training on making and promoting a CD. throughout the UK. All proceeds are used
to fund future recordings.
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‘ Grand Chorus’: twenty-two historic and
In addition, the Academy has an expanding important organs South of the Thames
catalogue of high-quality CDs featuring Our première recording of Handel’s Gloria
student performances. The raison d’être with Emma Kirkby, Laurence Cummings
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Strauss and Schoenberg performed
for making CDs at the Academy is threefold: and the Academy’s Baroque Orchestra by the Royal Academy Soloists directed
(BIS CD-1235) shot up the classical charts on by Clio Gould
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to provide valuable studio experience its release in June 2001.
for our students
Press comments on our classical CDs
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to record music which reflects the range appear throughout this Prospectus.
and quality of the Academy’s musical
‘I t’s a magnificent performance…
activity across many disciplines Recent releases include:
all four works here are superbly and

spontaneously played by eager
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to produce challenging, committed
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Richard Strauss: Complete works for brass
musicians from the Royal Academy
and discerning interpretations of Academy Symphonic Brass conducted by
of Music who provide wonderful
interesting repertoire — something which James Watson, R.A.M.038.
blending and a superbly polished,
young, talented people often respond ‘This CD is awesome by any standards’
professional ensemble under their
to spectacularly well. Brass Herald
fine conductor, Keith Bragg. This
new set certainly trumps its rivals.’
We hope that you will spend a few
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Richard Strauss: Complete works for
Gramophone, January 2008
minutes listening to some of the audio wind ensemble. Royal Academy of Music
which is available on the Academy’s Symphonic Wind conducted by Keith Bragg,
website at www.ram.ac.uk/discs — if R.A.M.034, double-CD.
you want to know what really goes on ‘It’s a magnificent performance’
at the Academy, it will give you the best Gramophone
possible idea of the range of performance
opportunities and standards.
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Song Circle: Goethe’s Girls and Mörike’s
Men. To be released in summer 2009
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