Accentus Music
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A Concert for New York
In Remembrance and Renewal - The Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) & Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano)
New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert
Alan Gilbert has the right sense of momentum and expectation — More…
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Andris Nelsons conducts Brahms
Lucerne Festival in Summer 2014 Opening Concert
Sara Mingardo (alto)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Choir, Andris Nelsons
What a spine-tingling DVD this is...Nelsons is his own man; this was no stand-in performance, and the level of concentrated artistry here is phenomenal...the entire performance testifies to... — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Ricarda Merbeth, Juliane Banse, Anna Lucia Richter, Sara Mingardo, Mihoko Fujimura, Andreas Schager, Peter Mattei, Samuel Youn
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tolzer Knabenchor, Riccardo Chailly
His approach is characteristically thoughtful...As you would expect from a handpicked band, the orchestral playing is consistently glorious. The contribution of the combined choirs is authoritative... — More…
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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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JS Bach: Christmas Oratorio
Patrick Grahl (tenor), Elvira Bill (alto), Klaus Häger (bass), Markus Schäfer (tenor), Dorothee Mields (soprano)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Thomanerchor Leipzig, Gotthold Schwarz
Bright, vigorous choral singing, five excellent vocal soloists and many a polished instrumental obbligato add up to a splendid reading. — More…
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Reglint Bühler (soprano), Susanne Krumbiegel (mezzo‐soprano), Susanne Langner (alto), Martin Lattke (tenor) & Markus Flaig (bass)
Thomanerchor Leipzig & Freiburger Barockorchester (playing on authentic period instruments), Georg Christoph Biller
The Thomanerchor is superb. Trebles match the confidence and facility of any adult choir...The Freibarockorchester matches their fluency and stylistic sensitivity...In the arias, the communication... — More…
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Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Stefan Kahle (alto), Wolfram Lattke (tenor), Martin Lattke (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass), Gotthold Schwarz (bass)
St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, St. Thomas Cantor Georg Christoph Biller
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Elisabeth Kulman (alto), Wolfram Lattke (tenor) & Luca Pisaroni (bass)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig & Dresdner Kammerchor, Herbert Blomstedt
Blomstedt is never bent on point-scoring didacticism, His is a truthful account; prayerful, reverential, intent on welding the disparate movements into a caressing over-arching entity… Among... — 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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Arvo Pärt: Adam's Passion; The Lost Paradise
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tõnu Kaljuste, Robert Wilson, Michalis Theophanous, Lucinda Childs
