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Baiba Skride plays Benjamin Britten
Violin Concerto & Double Concerto
Baiba Skride (violin), ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
The subtlety of her phrasing and range of her tonal palette reveal Skride as a Romantic player of real stature, and in the Prokofiev-like scherzo she’s not afraid to dig in and make less beautiful... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2024, Concerto Choice
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Eugen Engel: Grete Minde
Marko Pantelic, Kristi Anna Isene, Jan Arik Redmer, Raffaela Lintl, Jadwiga Postrozna, Zoltan Nyari, Paul Sketris, Johannes Stermann, Opernchor Des Theaters Magdeburg, Magdeburgische Philharmonie
The world premiere performance by the Magdeburg Theater is excellent. Soprano Raffaela Lintl brings a radiant voice and dramatic intensity to the title role. Tenor Zoltán Nyári is convincing... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera Recording of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - World Premiere Recording of the Year
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Müller-Schott has the technique to project the disc’s multitude of moods and to move seamlessly from virtuosity to sensuousness and back again...The Saint-Saëns Concerto is a joy from start... — More…
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Record Review, 25th September 2021, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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Puccini: Suor Angelica
Kristine Opolais (Angelica), Lioba Braun (Princess), Nadezhda Serdyuk (Sister Monitor) & Mojca Erdmann (Sister Genovieffa)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons evokes atmosphere with energy and clean-cut textures. All told, the effect is slightly cool, but many will prefer it to overheated Italianate performances, especially with such a credibly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, Opera Choice
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Stravinsky & Martin: Violin Concertos
Baiba Skride (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer
Skride's way with Stravinsky's Violin Concerto confirms it as a masterpiece of grace, charm and scintillating joie de vivre...Skride engages happily with the [Martin's] beguiling range of light... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten
Stephen Gould (Der Kaiser), Camilla Nylund (Die Kaiserin), Wolfgang Koch (Barak, der Farber), Nina Stemme (Die Farberin), Evelyn Herlitzius (Die Amme), Sebastian Holecek (Geisterbote)
Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann
Stemme is focussed and expressive, and if Koch sometimes seems underpowered, that is only through comparison to her. Herlitzius is similarly impressive, and she and Stemme are sufficiently distinct... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Opera
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Szymanowski: Violin Concertos 1 and 2 & Myths Op. 30
Baiba Skride (violin), Lauma Skride (piano)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
The First Concerto's opening here is vigorous and cleanly etched, with detailed recording...Skride's performance...is full of tonal variety, and fearless in the often vertiginous tessitura.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
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Duo Sessions: Julia Fischer & Daniel Müller-Schott
Julia Fischer (violin) & Daniel Müller-Schott (cello)
There’s plenty to enjoy here — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, Chamber Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Chamber Music
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Müller-Schott ends this formidable unaccompanied recital with Pablo Casals’s Song of the Birds, played with the intense focus, the sense of line and the gleaming purity of tone that characterises... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Solo Instrumental Recital (Cello)
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Brigitte Fassbaender (Octavian), Claire Watson (Marschallin), Karl Ridderbusch (Ochs), Lucia Popp (Sophie), Benno Kusche (Faninal), Annelie Waas (Marianne), David Thaw (Valzacchi), Margarethe Bence (Annina) & Gerhard Unger (Italian singer)
Bavarian State Opera, Carlos Kleiber
This performance from 1973 is notable for its extraordinary textural clarity, in this densest of scores, and its rhythmic vitality. The vocal hero of the occasion is Brigitte Fassbaender as... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Archive
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2009, Editor's Choice
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