Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
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Sibelius: Violin Concerto - Lemminkäinen Suite
Ava Bahari, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali
There is a very real sense here of musicians in their element - not least, of course, Bahari whose Swedish compatriots rise to the collaboration. Excellent. —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (1869 Version)
Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris), Maxim Paster (Shuisky), Mika Kares (Pimen), Sergei Skorokhodov (Grigory), Okka von der Damerau (The Innkeeper), Alexey Tikhomirov (Varlaam), Hanna Husáhr (Xenia), Johanna Rudström (Feodor)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano
...this performance is excellent, beautifully sung and cogently paced. The cast is mostly Russophone, which ensures mostly accurate pronunciation...this version is in any case indispensable... —
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Record Review, 28th September 2019, Disc of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Rouvali’s pacing, for the most part, feels instinctively ‘right’…The recording in Gothenburg’s wood-lined Concert Hall offers sonorous, yet clear lower textures, and if the high strings and... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Hannigan is in no hurry to evoke the sultriness of the day on Catfish Row: street cries, rendered by the wind and brass of the Gothenburg Symphony, echo hauntingly through the opening tableau.... —
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Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 & King Christian II Suite
RecommendedGothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali
The evidence here is of a serious artist, with a strikingly individual, but in no way contentious view of Sibelius’s much-performed symphony. The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra must have played... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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It’s hard to imagine a more unlikely orchestral pairing. It works mightily well, however, with the Gothenburg Symphony hugely atmospheric in Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus then warmly, playfully... —
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The Sibelius Edition Volume 8 - Orchestral Music
RecommendedGothenburg Symphony Orchestra & Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi & Jaakko Kuusisto
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Winner - Concerto
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Sebastian Fagerlund: Isola
Christoffer Sundqvist (clarinet)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk
a composer who can side with his great countryman Sibelius without the slightest need for self-protective irony. These are three strong, freshly poetic pieces, that make themselves understood... —
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Sibelius: Symphony Nos. 3, 5 & Pohjola's Daughter
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali
This latest recording of Sibelius’s Third gets off to a vital start, with marvellously gutsy playing from the Gothenburg strings...Yet the most exciting performance is of the Kalevala-based... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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[the Third Symphony is] an immensely attractive work, the folk melodies with their distinctly Belorussian and Polish inflections skilfully woven into the symphonic fabric and clothed in imaginative... —
