Browse: Christian Thielemann (conductor)
This page lists all recordings conducted by Christian Thielemann.
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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana & Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (DVD)
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Turiddu), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Santuzza), Ambrogio Maestri (Alfio), Annalisa Stroppa (Lola), Stefania Toczyska (Mamma Lucia), Jonas Kaufmann (Canio), Maria Agresta (Nedda), Dimitri Platanias (Tonio), Alessio Arduini (Silvio), Tansel Akzeybek (Beppe)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Sachsischer...
We have plenty of the thrilling, untrammelled and ringing sound that the tenor is capable of at his best...Happily, Kaufmann’s outstanding central performances are well matched, both musically... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th March 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Lisa Batiashvili plays Brahms & C. Schumann
Lisa Batiashvili (violin), with Alice Sara Ott (piano)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
Even before Lisa Batiashvili makes her entrance, we can sense this will be an outstanding performance of the Brahms. Finely balanced, spacious recording, with woodwind and horns well placed,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2013, Editor's Choice
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R. Strauss: Lieder
RecommendedDiana Damrau (soprano)
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Thielemann
What wins this disc the five stars are the facts that Damrau, singing in her native German, is poised ideally between dreamy haze and Schwarzkopfian fussiness...her hallowed pianissimos allow... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th January 2011
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten
Stephen Gould (Der Kaiser), Camilla Nylund (Die Kaiserin), Wolfgang Koch (Barak, der Farber), Nina Stemme (Die Farberin), Evelyn Herlitzius (Die Amme), Sebastian Holecek (Geisterbote)
Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann
Stemme is focussed and expressive, and if Koch sometimes seems underpowered, that is only through comparison to her. Herlitzius is similarly impressive, and she and Stemme are sufficiently distinct... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Opera
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Wagner: Parsifal
RecommendedPlácido Domingo (Parsifal), Waltraud Meier (Kundry), Franz-Josef Selig (Gurnemanz), Wolfgang Bankl (Klingsor), Ain Anger (Titurel), Falk Struckmann (Amfortas), Janina Baechle (Alto Stimme)
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann
At one and the same time this is a beautiful Parsifal… a modern Parsifal… and a new look at Parsifal, informed by Thielemann's experience and knowledge of a great tradition. …Domingo's… commitment... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2006, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Wagner: Das Rheingold Michael Volle (Wotan), Rolando Villazón (Loge), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Claudia Mahnke (Fricka), Vida Miknevičiūtė (Freia), Mika Kares (Fasolt), Peter Rose (Fafner)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Christian Thielemann, Dmitri Tcherniakov
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 (Edition Nowak)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann
a very compelling performance of the symphony…It’s a recording that everyone interested in the composer will want to hear. — More…
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Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder & Mahler: Rückert-Lieder
Live from Salzburg
Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann
Garanca is utterly dependable in the Wesendonck Lieder...Yet it’s Mahler who brings out the very best in both singer and conductor. ‘Um Mitternacht’ is transformed into a small-scale symphony... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo), Charles Castronovo (tenor), Georg Zeppenfeld (bass)
Dresden Staatskapelle, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden, Christian Thielemann
We find Thielemann balancing the operatic and the ecclesiastical superbly, pacing Verdi’s score unerringly…while the conductor is superb in the more reflective passages of the work, he is no... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 & Wolf: Lieder
Recorded live at Semperoper Dresden, September 2012
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
Thielemann's interpretation of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony is majestic and clean, as expected, though it falls just short of the cumulative power that the audience's warm reception suggests.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2013, DVD of the Month
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