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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113 'Babi Yar'
RecommendedAlexey Tikhomirov (bass)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Riccardo Muti
The tone virtually throughout is dark and intense, most particularly the opening movement which sets the title poem…Muti confirms his identification with this work in its subsequent movements…Tikhomirov,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Winner - Best Engineered Album (Classical)
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Verdi: Requiem
RecommendedBarbara Frittoli (soprano), Olga Borodina (mezzo), Mario Zeffiri (tenor), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass)
Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Riccardo Muti
...much remains of the potency of [Muti's] classic 1979 recording...The Dies Irae, for instance, retains all his customary bite and fury...Frittoli's substantial soprano charts the emotions... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Classical Album of the Year
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Miah Persson & Christianne Stotijn
Chicago Symphony Chorus & Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
…a scrupulously prepared mainstream reading that only hardened sceptics will dismiss as merely stolid. …Haitink's Urlicht is notable for the way Christianne Stotijn's rich mezzo is integrated... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Miah Persson (soprano), Christianne Stotijn (mezzo)
Chicago Symphony Chorus & Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
This new, white-hot version of the C minor Resurrection, recorded live with the Chicago SO last year, has characteristic nobility, dynamic variety, detail, clarity, lyricism and, in the opening... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Disc of the Month
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Gérard Depardieu (narrator), Mario Zeffiri (tenor) & Kyle Ketelsen (bass-baritone)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Riccardo Muti
Muti weighs up the musical contributions very neatly, never overpowering the intentionally slight nor attempting to tidy up [Lélio's] deliberately throwing six different pots of paint…at a single... — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Michelle DeYoung (mezzo)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Children's Choir, Bernard Haitink
…no inflection or nuance in the score passes unremarked. …the passion-play finale presents the ultimate challenge. …Haitink knows how to pace this great Adagio; the agonised climaxes and serene... — More…
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Bernard Haitink conducts Ravel & Poulenc
Recorded live in Orchestra Hall, Symphony Center November 8, 9, 10, 2007
Jessica Rivera (soprano)
Chicago Symphony Chorus & Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
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Schoenberg: Kol Nidre & Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Alberto Mizrahi (narrator), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Riccardo Muti
In these live performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti the cumulative power is inexorable. — More…
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