Andriessen, L
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Andriessen: The only one
RecommendedNora Fischer (soprano), Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen
It ’s plain that The only one is among the final works of this brilliantly influential composer. There’s no sense of waning powers nor any loss of iconoclastic spirit in its unnervingly surreal... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Premiere
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Special offer. Tales of song and sadness
Cappella Amsterdam, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Daniel Reuss, Frans Brüggen
This recording must contain some of the finest ever interpretations of these works: the choral singing, especially, is exceptional in its clarity and super-precise tuning. Daniel Reuss's conducting... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2026, Choral Choice
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This live recording, with an exemplary cast and Los Angeles Philharmonic on brilliant form under conductor Reinbert de Leeuw, captures the gruesome, morbid melancholy of a Faustian pact – but... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Andriessen, L: La Commedia
Claron McFadden, Cristina Zavalloni, Jeroen Willems, Marcel Beekman
Dutch National Opera, Jan Maarten Koeman
it is encouraging to hear Andriessen himself shifting his language decisively away from everybody else's pigeonholed view of his music...Reinbert de Leeuw directs the combined ASKO and Schonberg... —
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Opera, October 2014, Recording of the Month
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Louis Andriessen: La Passione
Cristina Zavalloni (soloist), Monica Germino (soloist), Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose
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Andriessen, L: Writing to Vermeer
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Susan Narucki (soprano)
ASKO Ensemble, Schoenberg Ensemble, De Nederlandse Opera, Reinbert de Leeuw
Andriessen's score has its own internal symmetries and conceits - there are references to folk songs and to works by Sweelinck and John Cage. But its most striking characteristics are the sheer... —
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Vom Himmel zur Hölle (From Heaven To Hell)
Cristina Zavalloni (soprano)
musikFabrik, Peter Rundel & Reinbert de Leeuw
Smolka's "Rush (Hour In Celestial Streets)" imagines angels seduced from their wings to angelic vehicles. On earth, Kagel's "Orchestrion-Straat" has the musicians imitating a machine invented... —
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Horizon 6
Janine Jansen (violin)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Xian Zhang, Vladimir Jurowski, David Robertson, Otto Tausk, Mariss Jansons
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