Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
RecommendedWerner Güra (Evangelist), Johannes Weisser (bass arias/Christus), Andrew Redmon (Petrus), Johannes Schendel (Pilatus), Sunhae Im (soprano arias), Benno Schachtner (alto arias), Sebastian Kohlhepp (tenor arias), Fabienne Weiss (Ancilla), Minsub Hong (Servus)
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS...
Clarity of sound and purpose distinguish [this] recording…woodwind are placed in front of the strings, allowing for exceptional detail in the turba choruses [while] the soloists sing throughout,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th March 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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JS Bach: Violin Concertos
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Bernhard Forck, (violin), Xenia Loeffler (oboe)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Faust's tone is both lean and exquisitely sweet, combined with consistent stylistic elegance which reaches the heights of eloquence in the slow movement of the E major Concerto. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th March 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2019, Concerto Choice
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Building a Library, November 2019, Also Recommended
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Mozart: Die Singspiele (The Magic Flute & The Abduction from the Seraglio)
RecommendedAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs, RIAS Kammerchor
This is a total experience, perfectly tailored for private listening. René Jacobs thinks of it as a Hörspiel: it's a play to be heard - I don't know a recorded Zauberflöte more thrillingly alive... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th September 2010
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Building a Library, November 2010, Recommended Recording (Die Zauberflöte)
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year (Die Zauberflöte)
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Opera (Die Zauberflöte)
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Opera Choice (Die Zauberflöte)
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year (Die Zauberflöte)
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Editor's Choice (Die Zauberflöte)
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015, (Die Entführung)
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Winner - Opera (Die Zauberflöte)
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These uplifting Baroque anthems are the high-water mark of music for royalty. More pomp and swagger may be found elsewhere, but Justin Doyle leads lively and stylish performances. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
RecommendedDaniel Behle (Tamino), Marlis Petersen (Pamina), Daniel Schmutzhard (Papageno), Sunhae Im (Papagena), Anna-Kristiina Kaappola (Königin der Nacht), Marcos Fink (Sarastro), Kurt Azesberger (Monostatos)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
...this is a total experience, perfectly tailored for private listening. René Jacobs thinks of it as a Hörspiel: it's a play to be heard - I don't know a recorded Zauberflöte more thrillingly... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th September 2010
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Opera Choice
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Opera Award Winner
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Building a Library, November 2020, Recommended Recording
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[K375] is infectiously played by the soloists of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, buoyant in the ‘Menuetto’, expressive in the Adagio, rich in the Allegro maestoso, fizzing all the way to... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Editor's Choice
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Mozart: Coronation Mass
Katharina Konradi (soprano), Sophie Harmsen (mezzo-soprano), Steve Davislim (tenor), Krešimir Stražanac (bass), Niklaus Pfannkuch, Raphael Alpermann (organ), Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Howard Arman
Arman is an attentive Mozartian. He’s particularly alert to the felicities of Mozart ’s instrumental writing , both colouristically, and in its role as agent of thematic integration. Throughout,... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year & Young Talent (Konradi)
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CPE Bach: Magnificat
RecommendedElizabeth Watts (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (alto), Lothar Odinius (tenor) & Markus Eiche (bass)
RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Hans-Christoph Rademann
a fine reconstruction of the second half of a concert [CPE Bach] conducted in Hamburg on Palm Sunday, 1786. So vivacious is the choral singing and orchestral playing under Hans-Chrisoph Rademann... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th February 2014
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Gluck: Italian Arias
RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
on this disc Cecilia Bartoli makes clear that Gluck was a formidable musical dramatist even in his early, pre-'reform' works...This CD, in short, is a tour de force of dramatic singing, in the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Recital
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2001, Disc of the Month
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Grammy Awards, 44th Awards (2001), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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