WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
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Wagner: Lohengrin
RecommendedJohan Botha (Lohengrin), Adrianne Pieczonka (Elsa), Falk Struckmann (Telramund), Petra Lang (Ortrud), Kwangchul Youn (King Heinrich), Eike Wilm Schulte (Herald)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, NDR Chor & Prager Kammerchor, Semyon Bychkov
Semyon Bychkov conducts a robustly powerful yet airily textured performance, keenly dramatic yet finely detailed. His Cologne orchestra and various choruses, focused and involved, sound tremendous... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th April 2010
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Disc of the Year & Opera Award Winner
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Opera, June 2009, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Hans Knappertsbusch
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Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis, Nobilissima Visione & Boston Symphony
RecommendedWDR Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski
Janowski lends the music greater energy and urgency [than Abbado]…This very well recorded disc should win Hindemith new friends. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Prokofiev & Sibelius - Violin Concertos
RecommendedVilde Frang (violin)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Thomas Søndergård
Frang heralds one of the freshest and most vital accounts of this familiar and frequently recorded work [the Sibelius concerto] in recent years. On display from the off is a vivid sense of intellectual... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2019, Recommended Recording
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Puccini: Suor Angelica
Kristine Opolais (Angelica), Lioba Braun (Princess), Nadezhda Serdyuk (Sister Monitor) & Mojca Erdmann (Sister Genovieffa)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons evokes atmosphere with energy and clean-cut textures. All told, the effect is slightly cool, but many will prefer it to overheated Italianate performances, especially with such a credibly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, Opera Choice
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Michael Jarrell: ...mais les images restent…
Ernesto Molinari (clarinet), Thomas Demenga (cello), Marino Formenti (piano)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln, Peter Rundel
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…possibly the most compelling recorded performance of Max Reger's only surviving piano concerto… The performance marries drama with poetry in an ideal proportions: Erdmann's timing is just... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2007, Editor's Choice
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Shostakovich: Russian Romances
Analotji Babykin (bass), Nina Fomina (soprano), Tamara Sinjawskaja (alto), Arkadi Mischenkin (tenor), Stanislaw Suleymanow (bass), Anatoli Kotscherga (bass), Wladimir Kasatschuk (tenor)
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Michail Jurowski
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Stravinsky: Le Rossignol
Mojca Erdmann (soprano)
WDR Sinfonieorchester, WDR Rundfunkchor, Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Saraste brings out a remarkable amount of detail in the score, with each line precisely etched and vividly conveyed. The playing is superb - the twittering singsong of many solo lines strikingly... — More…
