Violeta Urmana
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Wagner: Parsifal
RecommendedGary Lehman (Parsifal), Violeta Urmana (Kundry), René Pape (Gurnemanz), Evgeny Nikitin (Amfortas), Alexei Tano Vitski (Titurel) & Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor)
Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev
What really distinguishes this […] is Gergiev. His reading is vivid and luminous, generally expansive but with fluidly shifting tempos, unashamedly guilty of theatrical excitement. Yet he evokes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th September 2010
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Editor's Choice
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Boulez Conducts Mahler
RecommendedComplete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon
Rainer Keuschnig (organ), Christine Schäfer (soprano) & Michelle Deyoung (mezzo-soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (contralto), Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Anna Larsson (contralto), Johan Botha (tenor), Juliane Banse, Twyla Robinson, Erin Wall, Adriane Queiroz, Michelle DeYoung, Simone Schröder,...
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Building a Library, June 2016, Also Recommended
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Grammy Awards, 46th Awards (2003), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building a Library, May 2023, Also Recommended
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Wagner: Love Duets
RecommendedPlácido Domingo, Deborah Voigt
Orchestra of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano
It appears that in 1862, three years before Tristanand Isolde's première, Wagner hoped that the Schnorrs, his original Tristan and Isolde, would give part of the Love duet in a concert performance.
This... — More…Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Wagner: Scenes from the Ring
Placido Domingo (tenor), David Cangelosi (Mime), Natalie Dessay (Waldvogel), Violeta Urmana (Brünnhilde)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2002, Editor's Choice
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Wagner: Siegfried
RecommendedTomasz Konieczny (Der Wanderer/Wotan), Stephen Gould (Siegfried), Violeta Urmana (Brünnhilde), Anna Larsson (Erda), Matti Salminen (Fafner), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Christian Elsner (Mime), Sophie Klußmann (Stimme eines Waldvogels)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
This is a lively and enjoyable performance of what Wagner called his 'heroic comedy'...listen to the short but dense Prelude and you'll hear many things that you won't have heard on any other... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Clifton Forbis, Violeta Urmana (soprano)
Orchestre National de Lille, Jean-Claude Casadesus
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
RecommendedKarita Mattila (soprano), Violeta Urmana (contralto), Thomas Moser (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (bass)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Eric-Ericson Chamber Choir, Claudio Abbado
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Building a Library, February 2002, First Choice
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Paradisi gloria - Stabat Mater
Georgina von Benza (soprano), Violeta Urmana (mezzo-soprano), Iris Vermillion (mezzo soprano), Birgit Remmert (alto), Fabio Previati (baritone)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus, Munich Radio Orchestra, Marcello Viotti (conductor), Krzysztof Penderecki (conductor), Helmuth Rilling (conductor)
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Berlioz: Requiem, Cléopâtre & Le carnaval romain
Giuseppe Sabbatini & Violeta Urmana
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Singakademie & Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsoper, Bertrand de Billy
2 CDs
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen Jochen Schmeckenbecher (baritone), Julia Borchert, Katharina Kammerloher, Kismara Pessatti, Tomas Konieczny, Ricarda Merbeth (soprano), Christian Elsner (tenor), Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano), Günther Groissböck (bass), Timo Riihonen, Kor-Jan Dusseljee, Antonio Yang, Andreas Conrad, Maria Radner...
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