Browse: Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
This page lists all recordings performed by Anne Sofie von Otter.
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Sibelius: Tapiola, En Saga & 8 Songs
RecommendedAnne Sofie von Otter (mezzo)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Lintu has added nothing to the familiar score [Tapiola] – just heard things it seems others haven’t heard before. Best of all is the way he draws out singing lines almost throughout the piece…I’m... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Record Review, 16th December 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Vocal/Choral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, Winner - Assorted Program
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Bernstein: Candide
RecommendedLeonardo Capalbo (Candide), Jane Archibald (Cunegonde), Anne Sofie von Otter (Old Lady), Thomas Allen (Dr Pangloss/Narrator)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Marin Alsop
In the title role, Leonardo Capalbo offers charm, delicacy and a touch of melancholy. Jane Archibald makes an amiable Cunegonde, though her showpiece ‘Glitter and be gay’ doesn’t sparkle enough.... — More…
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Record Review, 9th October 2021, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
RecommendedKarita Mattila, Thomas Moser, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Quasthoff, Philip Langridge
Rundfunkchor Berlin, MDR-Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Ernst Sennf Choir, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2002, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, March 2017, First Choice
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Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
RecommendedAnne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado
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Building a Library, June 2011, First Choice
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Grammy Awards, 42nd Awards (1999), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Terezín / Theresienstadt
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Bengt Forsberg (piano), Christian Gerhaher (baritone) & Gerold Huber (piano)
…despite all their suffering, the music that was written and performed there expresses a strong will to live and attests to the power of the creative spirit… Such feelings are omnipresent in... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Vocal Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2007, Disc of the month
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2007, Editor's Choice
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Everything about this disc draws you in. Von Otter’s words have such intention and her sound is so fresh and direct – so finely shaded, so refined, yet somehow so close to speech — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Solo vocal
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Mozart: Idomeneo, K366
RecommendedAnthony Rolfe Johnson (Idomeneo), Anne Sofie von Otter (Idamantes), Sylvia McNair (Ilia), Hillevi Martinpelto (Elettra), Nigel Robson (Arbace)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Here's a performance that blends this conductor's love of scholarship with an unerring sense of theatre. The English Baroque Soloists are magnificent in a work that puts the chorus only one... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2007, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Winner - Opera
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
RecommendedThomas Allen (Eugene Onegin), Mirella Freni (Tatyana), Anne Sofie von Otter (Olga), Neil Shicoff (Lensky), Rosemary Lang (Larina), Ruthild Engert (Filipyevna), Paata Burchuladze (Gremin)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, James Levine
The new Onegin merits an almost unreserved recommendation […] the central performances by Mirella Freni and Thomas Allen are compellingly vivid. — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Handel - Gloria - Dixit Dominus
RecommendedEmma Kirkby (soprano), Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano), Anne Sofie Von Otter (alto)
Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra, Stockholm Bach Choir, Drottingholm Baroque Ensemble, Laurence Cummings, Anders Ohrwall
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th November 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2001, Editor's Choice
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