Download, Schoenberg (composer)
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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... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th June 2015
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Choral
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Special offer. 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. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th November 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Special offer. 'round Midnight
Quatuor Ebène (string quartet), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
[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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Chamber
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Special offer. Schoenberg & Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2024, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Special offer. Schoenberg: Transfigured Night & Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedAlisa Weilerstein (cello)
Trondheim Soloists
In performances of such freshness, verve and chamber transparency, the concept works...You’d go far to find performances of the Haydn concertos that match Alisa Weilerstein’s mix of stylistic... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th 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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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
RecommendedAlwyn Mellor (soprano), Anna Larsson (mezzo-soprano), Stuart Skelton (tenor), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (tenor), James Creswell (bass) & Sir Thomas Allen (speaker)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Edward Gardner
The hero is Edward Gardner, under whose wonderfully flexible beat this hyper-Romantic music positively breathes in long lyrical phrases and paragraphs. Nor are the excitements lacking: the coda... —
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Building a Library, March 2017, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Special offer. Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques, Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major, Schoenberg: Piano Concerto
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi (piano), 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... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th July 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht & Variations for Orchestra
RecommendedBerlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
The strings of the Berlin Philharmonic treat us to their most ravishingly expressive sound in this 1974 recording of Verklärte Nacht, heard here in Schoenberg's own version for string orchestra,... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Schoenberg: Violin Concerto & Verklärte Nacht
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
The secret of her success lies in her ability to bring an immense amount of poetry and fantasy to the immensely complex solo part…As a result, the listener gets drawn into the drama of the musical... —
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Record Review, 29th February 2020, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Hannigan’s luminous voice perfectly suits this music. She conveys the uneasy, almost unhinged feel of the fin de siècle not only in her lyric singing, but also in her crooning, swopping, sliding,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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