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Szymanowski - Król Roger
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Szymanowski: Concertos, Orchestral & Choral Works
RecommendedIwona Sobotka, Timothy Robinson, Katarina Karnéus, Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Elzbieta Szmytka, Jadwiga Rappé, Philip Langridge & Thomas Hampson, Florence Quivar, Jon Garrison & John Connell
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, with City of Birmingham...
Both these differing works [Song of the Night and Stabat Mater] are sensitively performed, giving the listener an excellent insight into the contrasting aspects of this composer's work. Rattle's... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Engineering
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Szymanowski: Król Roger & Symphony No. 4
RecommendedThomas Hampson, Elzbieta Szmytka, Ryszard Minkiewicz, Philip Langridge, Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle
King Roger is a ravishingly beautiful opera, but a very fragile one. With a shrill soprano or a less than ideally cast tenor it would be fatally flawed. Minkiewicz's Dionysiac Shepherd betrays... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Opera
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Szymanowski: Król Roger
Mariusz Kwiecien (King Roger II of Sicily), Georgia Jarman (Roxana), Saimir Pirgu (Shepherd), Kim Begley (Edrisi), Alan Ewing (Archbishop), Agnes Zwierko (Deaconess)
Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & Kasper Holten (director)
all the imagination of Kasper Holten's production coheres compellingly, and Antonio Pappano shapes an extremely lucid performance that somehow manages to be taut and lush at the same time. Mariusz... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Opera, February 2016, Recording of the Month
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Szymanowski: Król Roger
Mariusz Kwiecien (King Roger II of Sicily), Georgia Jarman (Roxana), Saimir Pirgu (Shepherd), Kim Begley (Edrisi), Alan Ewing (Archbishop), Agnes Zwierko (Deaconess)
Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & Kasper Holten (director)
all the imagination of Kasper Holten's production coheres compellingly, and Antonio Pappano shapes an extremely lucid performance that somehow manages to be taut and lush at the same time. Mariusz... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Opera, February 2016, Recording of the Month
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Szymanowski: Król Roger & Prince Potemkin
Andrezj Hiolski, Wieslaw Ochman and more
Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish State Philharmonic Chorus, Cracow Philharmonic Boys Choir, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice, Antoni Wit, Karol Stryja
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Szymanowski: King Roger and Prince Potemkin
Henryk Grychnik (tenor), Andrzej Hiolski (baritone), Anna Malewicz Madej (alto), Wieslaw Ochman (tenor), Barbara Zagorzanka (soprano), Leonard Andrzej Mroz (bass)
Cracow Philharmonic Boys Chorus, Polish State Philharmonic Chorus (Katowice), Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra, Katowice, Polish...
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Special offer. Szymanowski: Król Roger
Scott Hendricks (König Roger), Olga Pasychnik (Roxane), John Graham-Hall (Edrisi), Hartmann (Der Hirte)
Wiener Symphoniker, Sir Mark Elder, David Pountney
Pountney ditches the original Palermo setting in favour of severe abstraction, but fills the stage with unusually detailed and gripping action...Boasting a rich baritone, Scott Hendricks is... —
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The Royal Opera Collection
Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja, Thomas Hampson, Jonas Kaufmann, Simon Keelyside, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Dorothea Röschmann, Mariusz Kwiecien, Erwin Schrott, Miah Persson
Antonio Pappano, Andris Nelsons, Colin Davis, George Benjamin, Philippe Jordan
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