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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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Blomstedt takes a decidedly autumnal view of Brahms’s Second Symphony – and he has every right to do so...His lingering account of the first movement alone occupies well over 20 minutes…With... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Few, if any, duos are better equipped to take on this mantle than Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich.Aimard’s exceptionally close association with Messiaen and Loriod goes back to his... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Schoenberg: Transfigured Night & Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedAlisa Weilerstein (cello)
Trondheim Soloists
In performances of such freshness, verve and chamber transparency, the concept works...You’d go far to find performances of the Haydn concertos that match Alisa Weilerstein’s mix of stylistic... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th August 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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every tempo choice seems perfect. Bychkov doesn’t make an adagio-esque meal of the radiant song that frames the innocence-versus-experience third movement...Dynamics from the quietest imaginable... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20
State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia “Evgeny Svetlanov”, Vladimir Jurowski
Jurowski lacks nothing in terms of passionate commitment – the impact of his recording, especially when the SACD surround-track is activated, is all-engulfing – and conjures up a compelling emotional... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 1st December 2018, Disc of the Week
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Hans Sommer: Orchestral Songs
RecommendedMojca Erdmann, Anke Vondung, Mauro Peter, Benjamin Appl, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Guillermo García Calvo
The RundfunkSinfonieorchester Berlin sounds rich and glossy, with four strong soloists. Yet I was repeatedly left with the sensation of a composer trying too hard. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Vocal
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Premiere Recordings
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Monteverdi: Il Delirio Della Passione Anna Lucia Richter (soprano), Luca Pianca, Ensemble Claudiana
Richter’s declamatory storytelling reaches an impressive peak in the Lamento d’Arianna where every device of characterisation and emotional evocation is brilliantly deployed, including a collapse... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Handel: Alcina RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (Alcina), Anna Bonitatibus (Ruggiero), Erin Morley (Morgana), Elizabeth DeShong (Bradamante), Alois Mühlbacher (Oberto), Alex Rosen (Melisso), Valerio Contaldo (Oronte)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
The orchestra plays with fastidious attention to Handel’s ever-changing palette, and its support for the singers – particularly with the obbligatos – is unfailingly sensitive. And the singers... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th February 2024
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Christiane Karg (soprano), Elisabeth Kulman (mezzo-soprano), Prague Philharmonic Choir, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov
There is superlative individual and collective quality in every orchestral department, with fine solo and choral singing to match. And the recording, made in the Dvořák Hall in Prague’s Rudolf... — More…
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Record Review, 8th April 2023, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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