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Wagner: Lohengrin
Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Annette Dasch (Elsa), Petra Lang (Ortrud), Jukka Rasilainen (Telramund), Georg Zeppenfeld (König Heinrich), Samuel Youn (Der Heerrufer Des Königs), Bayreuth Festival, Andris Nelsons
The best singing comes from Annette Dasch’s Elsa, although her vibrato occasionally verges on unsteadiness; Georg Zeppenfeld’s mellow but light King Henry, short on low resonance; and Samuel... — More…
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Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 & Hamlet Overture
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Right from the lugubrious opening clarinet solo, you can feel him nuancing with tender loving care, adding dynamic variations of his own in the manner of Mariss Jansons, and pacing the longer-term... — More…
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Strauss - Ein Heldenleben & Der Rosenkavalier Suite
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
The music… the Rosenkavalier Suite has never worked better to my ears, the Presentation of the Rose taken at a studied tempo few singers would appreciate, yet touched with the most delicate and... — More…
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 & Francesca da Rimini
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons inspires great enthusiasm in his audience. However, his cool and disciplined style of music-making rather mutes the works on this disc which run the emotional gamut from despair to exhilaration...the... — More…
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Stravinsky - The Firebird & Symphony of Psalms
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
There is plenty of colour and razor-sharp playing in this new version, the recording vividly capturing the orchestra in the splendid acoustics of Symphony Hall...The control in the woodwind fugue... — More…
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 'Leningrad'
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons and the CBSO propel the opening paragraph of the Symphony with tremendous energy and heroic determination, adopting a tempo that is perhaps a notch faster than Shostakovich's more measured... — More…
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Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Hélène Grimaud (piano)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons
a superb pianist at the height of their powers [...] teamed to a conductor with whom they seem to have instinctive rapport...there's drama aplenty in the big first movement of the [Second] Concerto.... — More…
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Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 2 & Wagner: Meistersinger Prelude
RecommendedGewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
I like Nelsons’s approach [in No. 8], and the orchestra is magnificent...The Leipzigers have the right kind of sound, but Nelsons seems uncertain how smoothly the music should flow, so though... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th February 2021
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Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies
Gerard Schwarz, Dmitri Kitayenko, Christoph Eschenbach, Yondani Butt, Charles Mackerras, Andris Nelsons
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