WDR Rundfunkchor 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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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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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Mozart: Complete Masses, Vol. 2
Mass No. 18 'Great' & Missa Brevis 'Spaur'
Cologne Radio Choir, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Poppen
The approach to both is thoroughly refined and contained, although there is power to be had in the spectacular and unfinished ‘Great’, performed here in its 1989 completion by musicologist Franz... — More…
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Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem)
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Kölner Rundfunkchor & Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Dimitri Mitropoulos
[a] deeply felt Requiem, still high-voltage despite mono sound. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2012, Re-issue of the Month
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Dvořák: The King and the Charcoal Burner (Král a Uhlír)
Dalibor Jenis (King Matyáš), Peter Mikuláš (Matěj), Michelle Breedt (Anna), Lívia Aghová (Liduška), Michal Lehotsky (Jenik), Markus Schäfer (Jindřich)
Prague Chamber Choir, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln & WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Gerd Albrecht
Dvorák's delightful The King and the CharcoalBurner was the second opera that he wrote and the first to be staged. In its first form it was abandoned during rehearsal as being too complex and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
RecommendedMelanie Diener, Julianne Banse, Lisa Larsson (sopranos), Yvonne Naef, Birgit Remmert (mezzos), Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), Stephen Powell (baritone), Askar Abdrazakov (bass)
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Schweizer Chamber Choir, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, David Zinman
It sounds tall, wide and handsome in that wonderfully open Zinman way, and in the central development section he and his engineers ensure that we hear right into the texture, our ears led on... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Terje Stensvold (Der Holländer), Kwangchul Youn (Daland), Anja Kampe (Senta), Christopher Ventris (Erik), Jane Henschel (Mary), Russell Thomas (Der Steuermann)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln & NDR Chor, Andris Nelsons
Stensvold's Dutchman is noble and warm-toned, but conveys little deep feeling...That leaves the honours to Jane Henschel's lively Mary, and still more to Anja Kampe's Senta. Her voice has hardened... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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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 warmth... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2006, Opera Choice
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