Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Lise Davidsen sings Wagner and Strauss
RecommendedLise Davidsen (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Davidsen is no ordinary singer. Throughout the whole album one marvels at the voice, its easy grandeur and sheer size, its steely focus and security… The timbre has a default cool beauty but... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st May 2019
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Record Review, 8th June 2019, Record of the Week
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Diapason d’Or, Summer Issue 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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Special offer. Stravinsky: Perséphone
RecommendedAndrew Staples & Pauline Cheviller
Finnish National Opera, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Orchestral textures are clean yet sensuous, rhythms exactingly precise...In lesser hands, the score can seem episodic. Salonen, however, forges it into a unified drama, in which not a note or... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2018
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Vocal/Choral
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Special offer. Bartók: Piano Concertos
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), San Francisco Symphony, Esa-Pekka Salonen
There is much playing here of a clarity, velocity and exactitude that can make the jaw drop, and he, Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony seem to be on the same conceptual page throughout.... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Schoenberg & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
RecommendedHilary Hahn (violin)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
The Schoenberg is simply astonishing. Hahn and Esa-Pekka Salonen shows how much beauty and brilliance there is in this work. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th May 2009
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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It’s a large, densely orchestrated work in which he experiments with “cosmic” textures, though it sounds far from experimental in an avant-garde sense. Using material from Knock, Breathe, Shine,... — More…
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Contemporary Music
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it is very good to have Salonen's version of the Second Symphony restored to the catalogue; he captures its elusive qualities, and the LA strings sound at their most potent here in the surging... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th March 2013
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Contemporary
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Grammy Awards, 29th Awards (1986), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Saariaho: Adriana Mater
RecommendedFleur Barron (Adriana), Axelle Fanyo (Refka), Nicholas Phan (Yonas), Christopher Purves (Tsargo)
San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony, Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Winner - Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Strauss, R: Elektra
RecommendedEvelyn Herlitzius (Elektra), Waltraud Meier (Klytämnestra), Adrianne Pieczonka (Chrysothemis), Mikhail Petrenko (Orest), Tom Randle (Aegisth), Franz Mazura (Der Pfleger des Orest)
Coro Gulbenkian & Orchestre de Paris, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Herlitzius as the vengeful daughter is vocally tireless...Chereau exacts similarity intense, realistic performance from Adrianne Pieczonka as Chrysothemis...Other crucial elements in a total... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Opera
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Opéra
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Dutilleux: Correspondances
RecommendedBarbara Hannigan (soprano), Anssi Karttunen (cello)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Here is an oeuvre, not only of precise, masterly workmanship, but infused with emotional warmth and, beyond that, with profound passions, evidenced not least in Dutilleux's sympathy for the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Contemporary
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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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, 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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