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Henze: Heliogabalus Imperator
Works for Orchestra
Anssi Karttunen (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen
It’s hard to imagine finer performances than we get here, and the BBC recording captures everything well. Strongly recommended for Henze fans, and for those who aren’t. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Recomposed
WDR Sinfonieorchester, Sarah Wegener, Marcus Weiss, Ueli Wiget, Heinz Holliger
I cannot recommend this issue highly enough. It is so entertaining, so thought-provoking, and fills out a portrait of a composer who does not deserve to be forgotten. Holliger and his orchestra... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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New. Aggregate - New Works For Automated Pipe Organs
Maciej Śledziecki (organ), Marion Wörle (organ)
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This composer obviously feels things deeply and believes in traditional “expression.” But the sort of frenetic jagged eruptions one hears in the first movement are at least as much a fruit of... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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At once raw, immediate and beautifully refined, Liebner’s touch is extraordinarily controlled and subtle, turning a set of isolated, apparently random events into a sonic adventure which transcends... — More…
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Worth hearing, but no real challenge to earlier recensions of Mahler’s sketches — More…
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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New. Benjamin Scheuer: Impulsive Lieder
Andreas Fischer, Delphine Grataloup, Margit Kern, Pedro Pablo Cámara, Vanessa Porter, Schola Heidelberg, Peyee Chen (soprano), Dorothea Jakob (mezzo-soprano), Barbara Ostertag (vocalist), Gabriel Sin (tenor), Luciano Lodi (baritone), Konstantin Paganetti (baritone), Walter Nußbaum (chorusmaster),...
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Gubaidulina: In Croce
works for double bass
Daniele Roccato (double bass), Fabrizio Ottaviucci (piano) & Massimiliano Pitocco (bayan)
By turns both ethereal and then confrontational, the work employs a vast range of tonal and instrumental effects, and the performance here by Daniele Roccato and Massimiliano Pitocco is impressive... — More…
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Ecoles de Paris – Paris Pour Ecole
Adele Bitter, Holger Groschopp, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Johannes Zurl
the star of the album, Stravinsky apart, is undoubtedly the Pole Szymon Laks, who ended the war conducting the prisoners’ orchestra in Auschwitz...The playing in all these pieces, and in Ibert... — More…
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New. Elnaz Seyedi: A Sun of One's Own
Heather Roche (clarinet), Eva Zöllner, Alice Belugou, David Eggert, Trio Aventure, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Kommas Ensemble, Lautaro Mura Fuentealba, Gregor A. Mayrhofer
