Leipzig Radio Choir
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Weber: Der Freischütz
RecommendedLise Davidsen (Agathe), Andreas Schager (Max), Sofia Fomina (Ännchen), Alan Held (Kaspar), Markus Eiche (Ottokar), Franz-Josef Selig (Eremit)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony, MDR Leipzig Radio Choir, Marek Janowski
It is carefully done, and due attention is paid to Weber’s inventive score, but the result is frankly pedestrian…There’s good singing here, led by Lise Davidsen’s sweet-toned Agathe, who sings... — More…
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Record Review, 26th October 2019, Disc of the Week
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Beethoven: Fidelio
Lise Davidsen (Leonore), Christian Elsner (Florestan), Georg Zeppenfeld (Rocco), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Don Pizarro), Christina Landshamer (Marzelline), Cornel Frey (Jaquino), Günther Groissböck (Don Fernando), Dresdner Philharmoniker, Marek Janowski
it’s the orchestra which catches attention, with Janowski coaxing heartfelt playing from the strings and above all the horns, who somehow come to signify all that is most hopeful in this great... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Margaret Price (Isolde), René Kollo (Tristan), Brigitte Fassbaender (Brangaene), Kurt Moll (König Marke), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Kurwenal), Werner Götz (Melot), Anton Dermota (Hirt)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, Carlos Kleiber
Kleiber directs a compellingly impulsive reading, crowned by the glorious Isolde of Margaret Price, the most purely beautiful of any complete interpretation on record — More…
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The Second Viennese School
RecommendedSchoenberg, Berg & Webern
Karita Mattila (Tove), Anne Sofie von Otter (Waldtaube), Thomas Moser (Waldemar), Philip Langridge (Klaus-Narr), Thomas Quasthoff (Bauer/Sprecher), Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Gidon Kremer (violin), Franz Mazura (narrator)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig,...
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Orchestral
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Building a Library, March 2017, First Choice
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
RecommendedThomas Allen (Eugene Onegin), Mirella Freni (Tatyana), Anne Sofie von Otter (Olga), Neil Shicoff (Lensky), Rosemary Lang (Larina), Ruthild Engert (Filipyevna), Paata Burchuladze (Gremin)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, James Levine
The new Onegin merits an almost unreserved recommendation […] the central performances by Mirella Freni and Thomas Allen are compellingly vivid. — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Bruce Ford (Cellini), Laura Claycomb (Teresa), Franz Hawlata (Bass), Monica Groop (Ascanio), Christopher Maltman (Fieramosca), Ralf Lukas (Cardinal Salviati), Johannes Chum (Francesco), Reinhard Mayr (Bernadino), Ekkehard Wagner (Cabaretier), Matthias Hoffmann (Pompeo)
MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig,...
This recording…is ablaze. …Bruce Ford…can do both amorous and heroic, and blends well with Laura Claycomb's spirited Teresa. The outstanding characterisation is Monica Groop's Ascanio, a splendidly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, Opera Choice
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Puccini: Il Tabarro
Melody Moore (Giorgetta), Brian Jagde (Luigi), Lester Lynch (Michele), MDR Leipzig Radio Choir, Dresdner Philharmonie, Marek Janowski
In this studio recording, the three central roles go well together, though without being strikingly individual...in their best moments both Moore and Jagde find the expansiveness to allow Puccini’s... — More…
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Paradisum: Serene Sacred Songs Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Renee Fleming (soprano), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Elina Garanca (mezzo), Andrea Bocelli (tenor), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Juan Diego Florez (tenor), Jose Carreras (tenor), Angela Gheorghiu...
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Weber: Der Freischütz
Gundula Janowitz (Agathe), Edith Mathis (Ännchen), Peter Schreier (Max), Theo Adam (Kaspar), Franz Crass (Hermit), Siegfried Vogel (Kuno), Bernd Weikl (Ottokar), Günther Leib (Kilian), Gerhard Paul (Zamiel), Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Carlos Kleiber
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The 25 Loveliest Overtures
Hermann Prey (bass-baritone), Edith Mathis (soprano), Theo Adam (bass), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Peter Schreier (tenor), Magdalena Falewicz (soprano), Eberhard Buchner (tenor), Horst Gebhardt (tenor), Claudia Graswurm (alto), Joachim Vogt (tenor), Rolf Apreck (tenor), Robert Lauhofer...
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