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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Miah Persson & Christianne Stotijn
Chicago Symphony Chorus & Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
…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...
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Miah Persson & Christianne Stotijn
Chicago Symphony Chorus & Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
…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...
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24-page booklet, notes and biographies in English, French, German
CSO principal conductor Bernard Haitink leads a moving and noble performance of Mahler's immense Second Symphony, continuing his and the orchestra's successful exploration of Mahler's symphonies. The legendary CSO brass are at their finest, with stellar solos and ensemble playing from the woodwinds, strings and percussion.The Chicago Symphony Chorus sounds glorious in Mahler's triumphant finale, singing with sumptuous sound and immaculate diction. A musical force in Chicago and around the world, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the finest international orchestras.
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineFebruary 2010Editor's Choice
February 2010
…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 within a silky orchestral texture. The finale is firm and objective, the distancing of offstage brass nicely calibrated and the first choral entry exquisitely hushed...
13th December 2009
Portamento strings and raw yet refined brass timbre, especially, create vivid intensity. The fine soloists and beautifully blended, almost transcendentally pianissimo chorus are a bonus.
