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Bach: St. John Passion RecommendedNick Pritchard (Evangelist), William Thomas (Christus), Alex Ashworth (Pilatus), Julia Doyle (soprano), Alexander Chance (countertenor), Peter Davoren (tenor)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
the wonder is that in the circumstances the performance emerges so taut, dramatically focused, and exactingly crafted...singing off-score, his choir doesn’t so much relay the narrative as inhabit... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 26th February 2022, Record of the Week
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Choral Performance
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Sokolov’s manner in Haydn is pointed and detaché, which recalls a harpsichord, but his use of rubato is Romantic, and his dynamic shading takes advantage of the piano’s capacities. This amalgam... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
RecommendedMichael Volle (Hans Sachs), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther von Stolzing), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Beckmesser), Anne Schwanewilms (Eva), Daniel Behle (David), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (Magdalene), Günther Groissböck (Pogner)
Bayreuth Festival, Philippe Jordan, Barrie Kosky
In Barrie Kosky’s spirited but uneven 2017 staging of Wagner’s comedy there are splurges of ideas…The performances of the cast are of a high standard dramatically and mostly musically. Volle... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th July 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Audio-Visual Production
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What really gives these performances weight, in the best sense, is Barenboim’s marvellous sense of the long line – the kind of incredible long-breathed phrasing that, in his hands, can make even... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
John Lundgren (Dutchman), Asmik Grigorian (Senta), Georg Zeppenfeld (Daland), Eric Cutler (Erik), Marina Prudenskaya (Mary)
Bayreuth Festspiel, Oksana Lyniv, Dmitri Tcherniakov
Lyniv’s conducting is superb in terms of pacing and tonal weight and balance...Grigorian and Zeppenfeld sing as fluently and fearlessly as they act. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Piotr Beczała (Lohengrin), Anna Netrebko (Elsa), Tomasz Konieczny (Telramund), Evelyn Herlitzius (Ortrud), Georg Zeppenfeld (Heinrich), Derek Welton (Der Heerrufer des Königs)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden, Christian Thielemann
Beczała looks well, his basically lyrical tenor assumes adequate power and ring, but he never achieves the vital otherworldly aura of great Swan-Knights…Netrebko, no ingénue now, sings a passionate... — More…
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Opera, November 2017, Recording of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, March 2018, Vidéo
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Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Selected Film Themes
RecommendedAnne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams
It’s a hugely expressive, deeply atmospheric four-movement work and, like all his concertos, quite far removed from the thematic narrative music we’re all so familiar with. That’s not to say... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd June 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Clay Hilley (Siegfried), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Albert Dohmen (Hagen), Elisabeth Teige (Gutrune), Michael Kupfer-Radecky (Gunther), Christa Mayer (Waltraute), Olafur Sigurdarson (Alberich)
Bayreuther Festspielorchester, Cornelius Meister, Valentin Schwarz
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Wagner: Tannhäuser
Stephen Gould (Tannhäuser), Lise Davidsen (Elisabeth), Elena Zhidkova (Venus), Markus Eiche (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Stephen Milling (Hermann), Bayreuth Festival, Valéry Gergiev (conductor), Tobias Kratzer (director)
Kratzer has found an interesting frame story through which to parallel and illustrate the dramatic conflicts of Wagner’s early Romantic opera...The cast here play as a really tight company...[Davidsen]... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Anna Netrebko & Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Live From Red Square
Anna Netrebko (soprano), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
State Academic Symphony Orchestra “Evgeny Svetlanov”, Academic Grand Choir “Masters of Choral Singing”, Constantine Orbelian
