Browse: Orchestral, Symphonies
This page lists all classical recordings in genre: Orchestral » Symphonies.
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Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphony No. 10
RecommendedBoston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Powerful and beautifully crafted, this recording – the first from the relationship between DG and the Boston Symphony under Nelsons – is a hugely impressive sign of just what this ensemble/maestro... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st July 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2015, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Orchestral
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Orchestral Performance
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an essential recommendation for any collection. These are performances which seem to present a Beethoven 'for the ages', a distillation of a long interpretative tradition, without concern for... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Building a Library, October 1999, First Choice
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Building a Library, October 2007, First Choice
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Building a Library, January 2016, First Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The orchestra's sound under Vänskä has a kind of sharp-focus richness that's never cloying. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th July 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2016, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Building a Library, May 2023, Recommended Recording
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Abbado in Lucerne radiates clarity, wisdom and vision, qualities that over the years one had come to expect of him. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2014
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Orchestral Award Winner
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Symphonic Music
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Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9
RecommendedBoston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons is spry and precisioned and his insistence on super-keen rhythm pays off big-time...The Fifth Symphony is quite marvellous...and like the Tenth should dominate the catalogue for a long... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th May 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Orchestral Performance
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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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Weinberg: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 21
RecommendedGidon Kremer (violin)
Kremerata Baltica, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
The Second Symphony in general conveys a message of vigour and youthful optimism…and it is presented here in a performance of consummate technical brilliance and sustained emotional conviction…Gražinytė-Tyla... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd May 2019
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Record Review, 11th May 2019, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Recording of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, Summer Issue 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Orchestral
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Recording of the Year
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3 RecommendedGerhild Romberger (mezzo-soprano)
Augsburger Domsingknaben, Frauenchor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernard Haitink
a perfect beauty of a performance, natural sound matching natural evoution and every solo perfectly intoned — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th January 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Winner - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Recording of the Year
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Record Review, 7th January 2017, Recording of the Week
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Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 5 RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Alive and articulate, these three performances remind us that it’s just as possible to be stunned by an original interpretation of a familiar symphony (the Fifth) as it is to be refreshed by... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th June 2016
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Recording of the Year/Orchestral Winner
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Petrenko has a way of hearing deep into textures and harmonies that is at times really quite startling. He gives us X-ray ears. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2021, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Orchestral
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