Accentus Music
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Christiane Oelze (soprano) & Sarah Connolly (alto)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, MDR Rundfunkchor, Berliner Rundfunkchor & GewandhausChor, Riccardo Chailly
[Chailly] has turned wiry Gewandhaus strings into muscular proponents; the first real moment of magic is when he gives the cor anglais space to etch the Alpine idyll at the heart of the first... — More…
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Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg & Beethoven
Mihoko Fujimura (alto)
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
This programme...was Claudio Abbado's final filmed recording. It shows him as fragile as he always was during his final years, and economical with gestures, but as wholly in command as ever...It's... — More…
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The video direction of both performances is excellent; the pictures are very sharp. The sound quality is very good indeed. These are rewarding, very musical performances which I enjoyed very... — More…
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the Berlin Staatskapelle rises to the challenge magnificently. Quite simply the playing is awesome, not just in terms of its technical excellence, but also in the great subtlety of nuance and... — More…
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300th Anniversary of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
First Recording of Rediscovered Cantatas
Klaus Mertens (bass), Dorothee Mields (soprano), Georg Poplutz (tenor) & Gerhild Romberger (alto)
L'Arpa Festante München & Bachchor Mainz, Ralf Otto
The Mainz Bach Choir is in every sense a full participant and the instrumentalists of L'Arpa Festante acquit themselves with distinction. The soloists are evenly matched...The collective sense... — More…
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The Philharmonics
Waltzes By Johann Strauss. Aarranged by Schoenberg, Berg & Webern
The Philharmonics
the DVD itself is a colourful evocation of old Vienna that admirably demonstrates the power of DVD to add positively to what one merely hears on CD...The five Strauss waltzes are proficiently... — More…
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A Tribute to Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Urbański, Anne-Sophie Mutter & Daniel Müller-Schott
Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, Krzysztof Urbaski
[the Threnody's] extremes of timbre and texture still leave a fearsome impression - not least in a reading as unsparing as that which Krzysztof Urbanski here obtains from the Warsaw Philharmonic... — More…
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The concert’s torso makes sense on its own terms – a pair of late and tragic symphonies – and so do the cultivated polish of the Gewandhaus players and the fluent phrase-making of their maestro.... — More…
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Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart & Beethoven
Juliane Banse (soprano), Bruno Ganz (narrator), Christine Schäfer (soprano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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Mahler: Symphony No. 5 & Selected Songs from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
Lucerne Festival In Summer 2015
Matthias Goerne (baritone)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
[The Lucerne Festival Orchestra’s] magnificent playing here is suffused with the memory of their creator, Claudio Abbado, and re-energised with the new-found dynamism of the visionary Latvian…Nelsons... — More…
