CD, Schoenberg (composer)
-
Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
RecommendedBarbara Haveman (soprano), Claudia Mahnke (mezzo), Brandon Jovanovich (tenor), Gerhard Siegel (tenor), Thomas Bauer (baritone), Johannes Martin Kränzle (speaker)
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Domkantorei Köln, Männerstimmen des Kölner Domchores, Vokalensemble Kölner Dom, Chor des Bach-Vereins Köln,...
makes a vivid and spacious overall impression thanks to the alternately measured and passionate sway of Markus Stenz and the golden tones of the Gurzenich Orchestra. It is also strongly cast... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 29th June 2015
-
Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
-
Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Choral
2 CDs
$31.75Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Special offer. Infinite Voyage
RecommendedBarbara Hannigan (soprano), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
Emerson String Quartet
Much the finest experience comes in Schoenberg’s quartet, where the Emerson Quartet ’s playing masterfully combines forensic technical precision and expressive warmth. And Hannigan’s identif... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 8th September 2023
-
Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
-
Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Chamber
CD
Original price ($17.25) Reduced price $12.07Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
a fine demonstration of Leonskaja’s commitment to music whose fascination – and provocation – remains endless. — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 27th September 2024
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
CD
Original price ($15.25) Reduced price $13.72Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
No detail escapes her. Confiding, conversational, anguished, enraptured, she inhabits the piece whose instrumental filigree is perfectly judged by the conductorless Ensemble 360. From the delicate,... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, December 2024, Choral & Song Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
CD
Original price ($17.00) Reduced price $12.75Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques, Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major, Schoenberg: Piano Concerto
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi, Orchestre de La Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott
You have to envy the citizens of Geneva...Add a pianist in Francesco Piemontesi’s class, and here are stellar interpretations of three very different concerto-type works, ordered into a journey... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 8th July 2022
-
BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Concerto Choice
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
The Gringolts Quartet play both works with absolute mastery, and it would be difficult to imagine more convincing performances. Lingering particularly in the memory is the middle section of... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, Chamber Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Chamber
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
The Hollywood String Quartet play Schoenberg and Schubert
RecommendedAlvin Dinkin, Kurt Reher
The Hollywood String Quartet
This 1951 mono recording set the benchmark for many years, and so it probably did much to establish the current, questionable norms of tempo. But it's superb performance, played with skill... — More…
Awards:
-
Building a Library, February 2002, First Choice
-
Building a Library, October 2007, Historic Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Historic non-vocal
-
Penguin Guide, Rosette
CD
$14.00 -
-
What makes this performance especially persuasive is Järvi’s ability to control the constantly fluctuating tempo changes in Schoenberg’s score without losing sight of the music’s structural... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, August 2024, Editor's Choice
-
BBC Music Magazine, October 2024, Orchestral Choice
CD
$17.25Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
[The Dutilleux] is played here with breathtaking brilliance...the performance of Verklärte Nacht is worth waiting for, its extraordinary attention to detail and clarity never achieved at the... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
-
Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Chamber
CD
$16.25Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite & Schoenberg: Pelléas & Mélisande
RecommendedOrchestre de La Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott
Nott’s orchestral suite arranged from Debussy’s opera is both substantial and imaginatively devised... it is played here with a consistent loveliness that absorbs and appeals in its own right. — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 26th November 2021
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
