Klaus Tennstedt
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Júlia Várady, Jane Eaglen, Susan Bullock (sopranos), Trudeliese Schmidt, Jadwiga Rappé (mezzo soprano), Kenneth Riegel (tenor), Eike Wilm Schulte (baritone) & Hans Sotin (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, London Symphony Chorus & Eton College Boys’ Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
Even in the hour-long second movement, Tennstedt sustains such a high level of concentration and intensity that the attention is riveted throughout, culminating in a ecstatic peroration that... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedYvonne Kenny (soprano) & Jard Van Nes (mezzo soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & London Philharmonic Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
there are fine things: the focused, weighty playing; the charm of the childlike moments, the mighty storm that blows through the gentle pastures of the second movement, and some suitably hard-hitting... —
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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Jessye Norman sings Strauss: Five Songs & Salome
Jessye Norman (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt
Norman adds lustre to the already burnished orchestral playing in five songs, familiar from her studio version with Masur. Interpretatively there’s not much to choose between them, but she’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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…one of the greatest accounts of the work that I have heard. The LPO is on magnificent form, the horns especially covering themselves in glory the whole way through… Tennstedt's fervent love... —
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Mahler - Symphonies
RecommendedLucia Pop, Elizabeth Connell, Edith Wiens, Felicity Lott, Trudeliese Schmidt, Nadine Denize, Richard Versalle, Jorma Hynninen & Hans Sotin
Tiffin School Boy’s Choir, London Philharmonic Choir & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Winner - Orchestral
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Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'
RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt
…Tennstedt goes for the jugular, accentuating the theatricality of Mahler's musical language. —
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Building a Library, January 2023, Recommended Recording
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Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
Lucia Popp (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor) & René Pape (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
Without doubt the heart of this performance resides in the Elysian stretches of a deeply poetic and extremely leisurely Adagio, most memorably the rich lower strings near the start of the first... —
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Special offer. Klaus Tennstedt conducts Mahler
Waltraud Meier (mezzo)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Eton College Boys Choir & London Philharmonic Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
This is not the spick and span, vibrato-lite Mahler somewhat in vogue today...yet something special is going on, especially when the stick is discarded for much of the long-breathed, old-world,... —
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Tennstedt’s Petrushka has a rugged feel…The orchestra really digs into the score, relishing its earthy, folklike qualities…The 1919 Firebird Suite is – forgive the pun – a slow burn of a performance.... —
