SACD, Mahler (composer)
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Mahler: Symphony No. 10
Recommendedperforming version by Deryck Cooke
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Vänskä sees to it that his ever-waxing Minnesota Orchestra is ideally engaged with the various heights and depths...Limpid and lurid woodwind playing shines out, from the ghoulish clarinets... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th March 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
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Rhythmically very taut, clean and just a little unusual…The conductor holds focus in what can sometimes be a turgid sequel to the opening funeral march; the scherzo flies…And the finale is just... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st July 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Orchestral Performance
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The emphasis here is on beautifully judged line and flow, allowing the music's expressive extremes to speak for themselves without any need for exaggeration…This is one of those special listening... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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New. Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Boychoir, Minnesota Chorale, Osmo Vänskä
the playing of the Minnesota Orchestra, here completing their Mahler cycle, is, as we have come to expect, most accomplished. — More…
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…Fischer's feeling of the Symphony's supple architecture, his ability to caress a phrase or point out a delicious colour without losing the sense of the larger flow, make this one of the most... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2009, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, April 2019, Recommended Recording
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedLisa Milne (soprano) & Birgit Remmert (alto)
Budapest Festival Orchestra & The Hungarian Radio Choir, Iván Fischer
…Fischer… rarely pushes too hard. The orchestral sound is lean but not undernourished, allowing for even balance between contesting lines - outstanding in the funereal coda of the first movement... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Editor's Choice
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Imaginative, sensitive programming has been a constant feature of Ruby Hughes’s collaborations; and this latest with the perennially adventurous Manchester Collective is no exception...A disc... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor 'Resurrection'
Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Ruby Hughes (soprano)
Minnesota Orchestra & Chorale, Osmo Vänskä
Vänskä has very clear ideas of his own about Mahler...The disadvantage of that in this Resurrection comes, for me, very early on: after a swift, rather lightweight signing-in for fire and fury,... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Samuel’s musical response is something of a tour de force - at once fiercely dramatic and always coherent…Hughes rises to the challenge with bombproof technical strength and control, plenty... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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On a technical level this must, I think, be the finest recording the work has received. Every note is audible - and the achievement of the orchestra (still more extraordinary than that of the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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