Leipzig Radio Choir
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Weber: Der Freischütz
RecommendedLise Davidsen (Agathe), Andreas Schager (Max), Sofia Fomina (Ännchen), Alan Held (Kaspar), Markus Eiche (Ottokar), Franz-Josef Selig (Eremit)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony, MDR Leipzig Radio Choir, Marek Janowski
It is carefully done, and due attention is paid to Weber’s inventive score, but the result is frankly pedestrian…There’s good singing here, led by Lise Davidsen’s sweet-toned Agathe, who sings... — More…
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Record Review, 26th October 2019, Disc of the Week
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Rachmaninoff: Vespers, Op. 37
Klaudia Zeiner (alto) & Falk Hoffmann (tenor)
MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Risto Joost
This is highly polished singing, as one would expect from a leading professional choir. Leipzig’s MDR Radio Choir, under Risto Joost, scrupulously follows Rachmaninov’s score and never makes... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, March 2018, Nouveauté
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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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Special offer. Haydn - Die Schöpfung
Christine Karg (soprano), Benjamin Bruns (tenor), Tareq Nazmi (bass), MDR Leipzig Radio Choir, Desdner Philharmonie, Marek Janowski
Marek Janowski offers a fairly traditional view of Haydn’s great oratorio, but it’s one that benefits from a fine line-up of soloists, and from the enthusiasm and energy of the Dresdner Philharmonie’s... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Choral
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Beethoven: Fidelio
Lise Davidsen (Leonore), Christian Elsner (Florestan), Georg Zeppenfeld (Rocco), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Don Pizarro), Christina Landshamer (Marzelline), Cornel Frey (Jaquino), Günther Groissböck (Don Fernando), Dresdner Philharmoniker, Marek Janowski
it’s the orchestra which catches attention, with Janowski coaxing heartfelt playing from the strings and above all the horns, who somehow come to signify all that is most hopeful in this great... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Motets: Music by Anton Bruckner; Michael Haydn
MDR Leipzig Radio Choir, Philipp Ahmann
Bruckner’s superb choral works unfortunately tend to be eclipsed by his own symphonies; ditto Michael Haydn by his famous brother. In this fine coupling, both enjoy their deserved moment in... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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Special offer. Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Margaret Price (Isolde), René Kollo (Tristan), Brigitte Fassbaender (Brangaene), Kurt Moll (König Marke), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Kurwenal), Werner Götz (Melot), Anton Dermota (Hirt)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, Carlos Kleiber
Kleiber directs a compellingly impulsive reading, crowned by the glorious Isolde of Margaret Price, the most purely beautiful of any complete interpretation on record — More…
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Special offer. 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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Special offer. Britten: War Requiem, Penderecki: Tren & Berg: Violin Concerto
Kari Lövaas (soprano), Anthony Roden (tenor), Theo Adam (bass-baritone), Hansjürgen Scholze (organ), Manfred Scherzer (violin)
Leipzig Radio Orchestra, Dresden Cathedral Boys Choir, Leipzig Radio Chorus, Herbert Kegel
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The Second Viennese School
RecommendedSchoenberg, Berg & Webern
Karita Mattila (Tove), Anne Sofie von Otter (Waldtaube), Thomas Moser (Waldemar), Philip Langridge (Klaus-Narr), Thomas Quasthoff (Bauer/Sprecher), Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Gidon Kremer (violin), Franz Mazura (narrator)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig,...
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Orchestral
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Building a Library, March 2017, First Choice
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