Yvonne Naef
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Mahler - Symphony No. 8 & Symphony No. 10 (Adagio)
RecommendedErin Wall, Elza van den Heever, Laura Claycomb (sopranos), Katarina Karnéus, Yvonne Naef (mezzos), Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), Quinn Kelsey (baritone), James Morris (bass-baritone)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Pacific Boychoir, San Francisco Girls Choir,...
In part II, however, Tilson Thomas manages to create a sense of rapt introspection and untroubled serenity far removed from the more tangible and portentous lyricism Solti tends to provide in... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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Grammy Awards, 52nd Awards (2009), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 52nd Awards (2009), Classical Album of the Year
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Ravel: L’enfant et les sortileges & Shéhérazade
RecommendedIsabel Leonard (L'Enfant), Yvonne Naef (Mother, Chinese Cup, Dragonfly), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Teapot, Arithmetic and Frog), Elliot Madore (Grandfather Clock/Tomcat), Paul Gay (Armchair/Tree), Anna Christy (Princess, Fire, Nightingale)
Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Susan Graham has absolutely the right voice for this music and knows it well. Her French is fine and I'm delighted she respects Ravel's carefully notated vocal slides. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Opera Recording
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
RecommendedMelanie Diener, Julianne Banse, Lisa Larsson (sopranos), Yvonne Naef, Birgit Remmert (mezzos), Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), Stephen Powell (baritone), Askar Abdrazakov (bass)
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Schweizer Chamber Choir, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, David Zinman
It sounds tall, wide and handsome in that wonderfully open Zinman way, and in the central development section he and his engineers ensure that we hear right into the texture, our ears led on... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
Robert Dean Smith (Waldemar), Yvonne Naef (Waldtaube), Andreas Schmidt (Narrator), Melanie Diener (Tove), Ralf Lukas (Peasant), Gerhard Siegel (Klaus-Narr)
Bavarian Radio Chorus, Middle German Radio Choir Leipzig, South German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gielen
This 'Gurrelieder is grand opera. It might even be thought of as "modern Wagner" and, in fact, sounds more Wagnerian in terms of sound, styling, and phrasing than any reading I've heard. It... — More…
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Coming soon. Bernard Haitink conducts Anton Bruckner with the BRSO
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Yvonne Naef (mezzo-soprano), Christoph Strehl (tenor), Günther Groissböck (bass)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernard Haitink
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 & Adagio from Symphony No. 10
Quinn Kelsey (baritone), Ragnar Bohlin (director), Yvonne Naef (mezzo-soprano), Laura Claycomb (soprano), Susan McMane (director), Katarina Karnéus (mezzo-soprano), Elza van den Heever (soprano), Erin Wall (soprano), James Morris (bass-baritone), Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), Kevin Fox (director)
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Hans Vonk 1942 - 2004
The Final Sessions
Yvonne Naef (alto)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hans Vonk
Beautiful playing for what became a fine conductor’s epitaph…This is an essential disc for admirers of the Dutch conductor Hans Vonk. The performances, beautifully played and vividly recorded,... — More…
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Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5
Yvonne Naef (mezzo), Juliette Kang (violin), Hai-Ye Ni (cello) & Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
Eschenbach's live recording of Shostakovich Five with the Philadelphia is a monumental reading, seeking drama in the work's gaunt architecture rather than its moment-to-moment events. — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Simona Šaturová (soprano) & Yvonne Naef (mezzo)
Philadelphia Singers Chorale & Philadelphia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
When the lovely second subject of the first movement shyly, mysteriously, finds its voice here Eschenbach and his orchestra magically open up the imagination to a world of infinite possibility. — More…
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Verdi: Falstaff
Erika Grimaldi (soprano), Carlo Bosi (tenor), Roxana Constantinescu (mezzo-soprano), Luca Salsi (baritone), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), David Shipley (bass (vocal)), Yvonne Naef (contralto), Luca Casalin (tenor), Ying Fang (soprano), Atalla Ayan (tenor)
Verbier Festival Orchestra, Oberwalliser...
I’ve never heard a better recording in the modern era than this one…In the end, Terfel at last delivers the magnificent Falstaff that was always in him waiting to get out. One can sit back and... — More…
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