Orchestral, Berg (composer)
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Berg: Violin Concerto, Three Pieces for Orchestra
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Ehnes gives a hauntingly elegiac account of Berg’s Violin Concerto...[He] makes it sound like a requiem not only for Manon Gropius, but also for Berg himself...His mellow tone is ideally captured... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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the intensity doesn’t let up, but neither does the quality of the playing...Indebted to Bach and to Liszt, the Fantasia Contrappuntistica can be an impenetrable work. Levit’s approach is lucid... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th September 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrumental Recording of the Year
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Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from Lugano 2016
RecommendedMartha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Sergey Babayan (piano), Sergio Tiempo (piano), Karin Lechner (piano), Nicholas Angelich (piano)
violin
David Guerrier, horn
violino, Tedi Papavrami (violin)
piano, Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana,...
This is the last of Warner’s annual gleanings from the Lugano Festival at which Martha Argerich presides - and definitely the most exciting. She may be 76, but her playing has lost none of... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended Recording
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Vienne 1900
Eric Le Sage (piano), Zvi Plesser (cello), Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
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Special offer. Berg: Violin Concerto, Seven Early Songs, and Three Pieces for Orchestra
RecommendedGil Shaham (violin), Susanna Phillips (soprano), San Francisco Symphony & Michael Tilson-Thomas
Berg’s shimmering, often Mahlerian soundscapes are lovingly rendered by Tilson Thomas. Shaham brings tonal beauty and power to the sublime Concerto, while Phillips’s voice is radiant in the... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Classical Compendium
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Special offer. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Barbara Hannigan (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Every nuance [of The Rite] is crafted, each detail considered, yet there is still a sense of danger and visceral power…Rattle and the LSO are joined, usurped even, by the extraordinary Barbara... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, Orchestral Choice
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The Second Viennese School
RecommendedSchoenberg, Berg & Webern
Karita Mattila (Tove), Anne Sofie von Otter (Waldtaube), Thomas Moser (Waldemar), Philip Langridge (Klaus-Narr), Thomas Quasthoff (Bauer/Sprecher), Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Gidon Kremer (violin), Franz Mazura (narrator)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig,...
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Orchestral
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Building a Library, March 2017, First Choice
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Sehnsucht: Berg - Mahler
Live in Rotterdam
Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Raoul Steffani (baritone), Camerata RCO, Rolf Verbeek
[Mahler] I couldn’t wait to hear Hannigan in the finale, and she is superb, conveying the childlike wonder of the vocal part with such musicality and dramatic conviction that it will be hard... —
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It's something of a challenge to recast Berg's Op. 1 Piano Sonata as a work for string sextet. …this arrangement, made by the Artemis Quartet's violinist Heime Müller, works wonderfully well.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, Chamber Choice
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Ruby Hughes's singing is exceptional - light and delicate yet true. —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, Choral & Song Choice
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