WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
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Puccini: Suor Angelica
Kristine Opolais (Angelica), Lioba Braun (Princess), Nadezhda Serdyuk (Sister Monitor) & Mojca Erdmann (Sister Genovieffa)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons evokes atmosphere with energy and clean-cut textures. All told, the effect is slightly cool, but many will prefer it to overheated Italianate performances, especially with such a credibly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, Opera Choice
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Wagner: Lohengrin
RecommendedJohan Botha (Lohengrin), Adrianne Pieczonka (Elsa), Falk Struckmann (Telramund), Petra Lang (Ortrud), Kwangchul Youn (King Heinrich), Eike Wilm Schulte (Herald)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, NDR Chor & Prager Kammerchor, Semyon Bychkov
Semyon Bychkov conducts a robustly powerful yet airily textured performance, keenly dramatic yet finely detailed. His Cologne orchestra and various choruses, focused and involved, sound tremendous... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th April 2010
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Disc of the Year & Opera Award Winner
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Opera, June 2009, Recording of the Month
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[Griffiths] brings thrillingly vibrant and lucid playing from Cologne's WDR Sinfonieorchester, which is captured in brilliantly clear and realistic sound…the wind-playing is characterful, with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Strauss, R: Daphne Renée Fleming (Daphne), Johan Botha (Apollos), Michael Schade (Leukippos), Kwanchul Youn (Peineios), Anna Larsson (Gaea)
Orchestra & Chorus of West Deutscher Rundfunk, Semyon Bychkov
Renée Fleming's many admirers should be pleased enough with her gracious performance. She deals idiomatically with Strauss's long phrases and points the text well… — More…
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12 Audiobiographies of Great Composers By Jörg Handstein (in German)
Udo Wachtveitl (narrator), Albrecht Schuch (narrator), Shenja Lacher (narrator), Adam Gaigl (narrator), Florian von Manteuffel (narrator), Stefan Hunstein (narrator), Katja Schild (narrator), Anna Greiter (narrator), Folkert Dücker (narrator), Günter Holzhausen, Max Hanft, Alexej Gorlatch, Bernhard...
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Strauss, R: Elektra
Deborah Polaski (Elektra), Felicity Palmer (Klytämnestra), Anne Schwanewilms (Chrysothemis), Graham Clark (Aegisth), Franz Grundheber (Orest)
West German Radio Chorus, West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov
…Bychkov trumps the competition spectacularly. He conducts the score uncut and summons up all its exultant power; but in addition to the growling savagery of Solti and others he finds rare... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2006, Opera Choice
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Offenbach: 3 x Offenbach
RecommendedSanders Schier (Herzog von Tulipatan), Eva Kasper (Alexis), Fritz Ollendorff (Romboidal), Anni Korner (Theodorine) & Alfons Holte (Hermosa), Karl Diekmann (Monsieur), Gabrielle Treskov (Madame), Eva Kasper (Das Zimmermadchen) & Alfons Holte (Der Soldat), Alfons Holte (Pierre), Eva Kasper...
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Marschner, H A: Der Vampyr
Jonas Kaufmann, Franz Hawlata, Regina Klepper & Thomas Dewald
WDR Rundfunkorchester Koln, Helmuth Froschauer
Kaufmann sings the hero to Hawlata's villain in this enjoyable account of Marschner's 1828 Gothic thriller, a work that influenced Wagner and which can still send a shiver down the spine. — More…
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Classical Music for Weddings
Helmut Walcha (organ), Tomoko Maria Nishioka (soprano), Raimund Hug (piano), Douglas Haas (organ), Kathleen Ferrier (alto), John Newmark (piano), Renato Bruson (baritone), Inessa Galante (soprano), Antonio Piricone (organ), Hans Jörg Mammel (tenor), Matthias Klager (guitar), Carole Dawn Reinhart...
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