Browse: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (orchestra)
This page lists all recordings performed by Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.
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These two discs hardly need reviewing: they contain perfect performances of two of the greatest symphonies ever written, recorded with extra directness and detail...I’d put these performances... — More…
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Record Review, 9th July 2022, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, Orchestral Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Richard Strauss - Vier letzte Lieder and Other Lieder
RecommendedJessye Norman (soprano)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur
[Norman is] grand, impassioned, noble, dignified, unmannered in this unforgettable interpretation — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1984, Winner - Solo vocal
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, July 2019, Also Recommended
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 & Wagner: Siegfried’s Funeral March
RecommendedGewandhausorchester, Andris Nelsons
What elevates these performances for me is the fact that Nelsons takes equal care over the string parts...Having said that, the brass certainly don't disappoint either: the outbursts of the slow... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Orchestral
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dynamic and dramatic readings, faithful to Brahms's intentions. Powerfully conceived, they are rhythmically alert, without an ounce of undue sentiment and never for an instant losing sight of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Recording of the Year
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Building a Library, April 2018, Also recommended
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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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they are substantial pieces in their own right, and they emerge irresistable thanks to the easy flow of Chailly's conducting and the superb playing of his orchestra...Chailly and his orchestra... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd February 2015
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Might this be the start of a complete Bruckner symphonies from the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Andris Nelsons? On the strength of this I very much hope so. The orchestra is still on with... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th May 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Orchestra of the Year
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You won’t hear lovelier playing of Brahms’s music, nor clearer presentation of its ceaselessly inventive inner workings. What doesn’t come across as strongly is how these are two of the greatest... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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If I had to pick one word to describe this recording, it would be ‘ intense’...An unsentimental, unshowy and rather lovely Liebestraum No. 3 opens proceedings; a cathartic Harmonies du soir concludes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th September 2022
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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