Staatskapelle Berlin
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Tchaikovsky & Sibelius Violin Concertos
RecommendedLisa Batiashvili (violin)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
Batiashvili focuses on poetic intimacy in this deeply thoughtful performance. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th November 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Record Review, 28th January 2017, Recording of the Week
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Building a Library, November 2023, Recommended Recording
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Elgar & Carter: Cello Concertos RecommendedAlisa Weilerstein (cello)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
Weilerstein avoids nostalgia [in the Elgar] and produces instead an account that is full of passion, grief and nobility of feeling...Her interpretation [of the Carter], at once remarkably expressive... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th February 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Recording of the Year & Concerto Award Winner
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Debussy: Fantaisie, Violin Sonata, Cello Sonata, La Mer
RecommendedDaniel Barenboim (piano), Michael Barenboim (violin), Kian Soltani (cello), Martha Argerich (piano), Staatskapelle Berlin
Michael Barenboim and Kian Soltani are the concertmaster and principal cellist of the Barenboim-founded West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, so the stellar quality of their playing is no more a surprise... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th June 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38 RecommendedCatherine Wyn-Rogers (Angel), Andrew Staples (Gerontius), Thomas Hampson (Priest/Angel of the Agony)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatsopernchor, RIAS Kammerchor, Daniel Barenboim
Staples is a young-sounding and affecting Gerontius…he uses his vulnerability to good effect…Wyn-Rogers sings with great feeling and intensity and an always vivid response to text…Hampson is... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th July 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Record Review, 15th July 2017, Recording of the Week
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Barenboim sets subtly different tempos for passages that often run directly on from each other, but he also pushes round corners at which other conductors linger…the Staatskapelle Berlin sustain... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Orchestral
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He’s an exceptionally free, agile and fluent player, and youthful impetuosity powers the first and third movements, only occasionally marred by a rather hectic vibrato. There’s a sense of real... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2020, Concerto Choice
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Prokofiev: The Gambler, Op. 24
Misha Didyk (Alexei), Kristine Opolais (Polina), Vladimir Ognovenko (General), Stefania Toczyska (Babulenka), Stephan Rügamer (The Marquis), Sylvia de la Muela (Blanche), Viktor Rud (Mr Astley)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) & Dmitri Tcherniakov (stage director)
Barenboim's crystal-clear pacing of the score is hard-hitting rather than quicksilvery, but the payoff in the last Act is terrific, and the blue-lit look of it all - Tcherniakov designed it,... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - DVD Performance
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, DVD of the Month
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Opera, July 2010, Recording of the Month
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René Pape sings Wagner
RecommendedRené Pape (bass), Placido Domingo (tenor)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
he remains more than capable of the spellbinding legato that Wolfram's Hymn to the Evening Star requires...purely musical values are of rare distinction. The Parsifal scene in particular benefits... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Recital
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2011, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Richard Wagner: Die Walküre Anja Kampe (Brünnhilde), Michael Volle (Wotan), Robert Watson (Siegmund), Vida Miknevičiūtė (Sieglinde), Claudia Mahnke (Fricka), Mika Kares (Hunding)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Christian Thielemann, Dmitri Tcherniakov
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Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 63 RecommendedStaatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
This is a superb, in fact I feel justified in calling it a great, Elgar Two. It's difficult to know where to start in listings its excellences...But one must start and finish with Barenboim's... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2015, First Choice
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