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WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
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New. Mel Bonis: Orchestral Works
Lydia Teuscher (soprano), Julie Robard-Gendre, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Damen des WDR Rundfunkchores, Joseph Bastian
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Special offer. Grażyna Bacewicz: Complete Orchestral Works Vol. 3
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Łukasz Borowicz
Symphony No. 1, written during World War Two. Conceived in classic four-movement structure, it gets off to a moody start before picking up rhythmic drive. The whole work sounds arresting thanks... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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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... —
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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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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. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Moral conviction fuel her (anti-war) neoclassical Symphony No. 2 of 1938 and anti-fascist symphonic poem Pogromes. The programme, played with conviction by the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln under... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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[Griffiths] brings thrillingly vibrant and lucid playing from Cologne's WDR Sinfonieorchester, which is captured in brilliantly clear and realistic sound…the wind-playing is characterful, with... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, Editor's Choice
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Concertos: Pécou, Lazkano, Nan
Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Orchestre National de Lyon, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Orchestre National de Lille, Jonathan Stockhammer, Sylvain Cambreling, Emilia Hoving
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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... —
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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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Dmitri Shostakovich: Orchestral Songs - Vocal Symphonic Music
Stanislaw Sulejmanow, Wladimir Kasatschuk, Tamara Sinjawskaja, Anatolij Kotscherga, Anatoly Babykin, Nina Fomina, Arkadi Mischenkin, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Rundfunk-Kinderchor Berlin, Michail Jurowski