Sir Simon Rattle
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Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen, Sinfonietta
RecommendedLucy Crowe (Vixen), Gerald Finley (Forester), Sophia Burgos (Fox), Jan Martiník (Badger/Parson), Peter Hoare (Mosquito/Rooster/Schoolmaster), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (Harašta)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
If this Vixen is good, the Sinfonietta is outstanding – arguably the best on disc, though you need to experience the work in a concert hall with the nine trumpets blazing. They’re supremely... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th September 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
Michael Volle (Wotan), Tomasz Konieczny (Alberich), Burkhard Ulrich (Loge), Elisabeth Kulman (Fricka), Herwig Pecoraro (Mime), Peter Rose (Fasolt), Eric Halfvarson (Fafner), Annette Dasch (Freia), Janina Baechle (Erda), Christian van Horn (Donner), Benjamin Bruns (Froh), Mirella Hagen (Woglinde),...
His conducting is fast, as Wagner preferred and intensely dynamic but he avoids Boulez's glibness, illuminating the drama of the moment in a mercurial, almost Solti-like fashion...he seems to... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Opera
2 CDs
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Wagner: Siegfried
Simon O'Neill (Siegfried), Michael Volle (Der Wanderer), Peter Hoare (Mime), Anja Kampe (Brünnhilde), Franz-Josef Selig (Fafner), Gerhild Romberger (Erda), Danae Kontora (Waldvogel), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle
Rattle shows a keen awareness of orchestral colour and brings an impressive dynamism to the music. His tendency is to be quite speedy – and there is certainly virtue in such an approach. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
3 CDs
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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
RecommendedChristian Gerhaher (Pelléas), Magdalena Kožená (Mélisande), Bernarda Fink (Geneviève), Franz-Josef Selig (Arkel), Gerald Finley (Golaud), Elias Mädler (Yniold), Joshua Bloom ((Shepherd/Doctor)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Kožená’s Melisande has a firm streak of red-blooded coquettish defiance that is effective, even if it belies the character’s customary blanched fragility. Christian Gerhaher’s Pélleas is similarly... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th October 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera Recording (20th/21st century)
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Opera
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The John Adams Edition RecommendedBerliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, John Adams, Alan Gilbert, Gustavo Dudamel, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle
Both [Harmonielehre and The Gospel According to the Other Mary] benefit from the full palette of the Berlin Philharmonic, from powerful lower brass to exquisite wind solos and sensuous strings;... — More…
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium
4 CDs + 2 Blu-ray Videos
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Berlioz: La damnation de Faust
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Bryan Hymel (tenor), Christopher Purves (baritone), Gábor Bretz (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Guildhall School Singers, Tiffin Children's Chorus, Tiffin Girls' Choir, Tiffin Boys' Choir, Sir Simon Rattle
The work and its style – especially the virtuosity and panache required – have clearly remained in the orchestra’s collective memory…Overall it’s a tightly organised and carefully paced achievement... — More…
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Record Review, 23rd March 2019, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Bizet: Carmen
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (Carmen), Jonas Kaufmann (Don José), Genia Kühmeier (Micaëla), Kostas Smoriginas (Escamillo), Christian van Horn (Zuniga), Andrè Schuen (Moralès), Christina Landshammer (Frasquita), Rachel Frenkel (Mercédès), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Remendado) & Simone del Savio (Dancairo)
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this studio recording of Bizet’s opera compels attention for a variety of reasons...[Rattle and Kozena] stress their wish to return to the “chamber feeling” of the French tradition into which... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th August 2012
2 CDs
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Wagner: Die Walküre
Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Eric Halfvarson (Hunding), James Rutherford (Wotan), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Elisabeth Kulman (Fricka), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle
The orchestral playing is predictably excellent—the woodwind solos always have character, and the low brass have an ability to add menace and bite without overpowering the orchestra—but Rattle... — More…
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Record Review, 18th April 2020, Record of the Week
4 CDs
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The Essential Falla RecommendedNati Mistral (soprano), John Constable (harpsichord), Eduardo Fernandez (guitar), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Alicia de Larrocha (piano), Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano), Martin Katz (piano), Colette Boky (soprano)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, London Philharmonic Orchestra, L'Orchestre...
[El amor brujo] enjoys exceptionally vivid sound, yet with plenty of light and shade, and the control of atmosphere in the quieter passages is masterful...de Larrocha's later, digital version... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Szymanowski: Król Roger & Symphony No. 4
RecommendedThomas Hampson, Elzbieta Szmytka, Ryszard Minkiewicz, Philip Langridge, Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle
King Roger is a ravishingly beautiful opera, but a very fragile one. With a shrill soprano or a less than ideally cast tenor it would be fatally flawed. Minkiewicz's Dionysiac Shepherd betrays... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Opera
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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