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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet RecommendedPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
This is one of the best new Tchaikovsky Fifths I’ve heard for ages...even if this Fifth came with no coupling, I’d still recommend it. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2023, Recording of the Month
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th December 2023
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 & Barber: Adagio for Strings RecommendedPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Honeck’s Shostakovich sounds magnificent. From intense pianissimos to the shrieking upper register and full bass thwack of a grand peroration – which Honeck takes surprisingly at face value... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Their playing is consummate, fearless in its bravura, deeply impassioned and dazzlingly flighted (try the Allegro scherzando variation of the D minor’s second movement). Eyes seeking within,... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Engineered Album (Classical)
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R. Strauss: Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration & Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Honeck's interpretations have huge personality, and mostly in the right way. He's not averse to Stokowski-style touchings-up if they help the drama...Honeck likes to underline something pathological... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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Honeck's interpretation is rich in imagination and the playing of the Pittsburgh Symphony scales the heights...I would say that Manfred Honeck is one of the few remaining masters of the rostrum... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Editor's Choice
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Founded in 1982, this orchestra offers here a classy standard of playing, plus the conductor-and-orchestra chemistry that’s needed to generate musical results as memorable as these, and in three... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Orchestral Choice
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Pavel Chesnokov: Teach Me Thy Statutes RecommendedPatram Institute Male Choir, Vladimir Gorbik
It comprises 21 tenors, nine baritones, seven basses and five profundos, and is very much a tenor-dominated sound with little obvious resonance from the lowest voices. This gives it all a fervent... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Choral Performance
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The organ has a really gutsy, symphonic core... Jan Kraybill... plays with considerable verve and a feeling both for colour and for the grand gesture. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Between Two Worlds Guy Yehuda, Dmitri Berlinsky, Yvonne Lam, Eric Nowlin, Suren Bagratuni, Kevin Brown, Jon Weber, Eric Zuber
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