Munich Chamber Orchestra
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Márton Illés: Bowed Spaces
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Münchener Kammerorchester, Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), SWR Experimentalstudio, Clemens Schuldt, Bas Wiegers
We’ve come to expect virtuosity from Kopatchinskaja, and her command of her instrument, with harmonics, double stops, glissandi and a wide tonal palette, gloriously unafraid of ugly sounds,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2026, Recording of the Month
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Mansurian: Requiem, for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and string orchestra
RecommendedAnja Petersen (soprano), Andrew Redmond (bass)
RIAS Chamber Choir Berlin, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Liebreich
Mansurian’s sound-world is notably clean: time and again he juxtaposes orchestral unisons and stark instrumental effects with plainchant, yet burnished splendour is the result. Throughout the... —
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, Winner - Contemporary
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The Living Mountain
Sarah Aristidou (soprano), Aaron Pilsan (piano), Luka Juhart (accordion), Munich Chamber Orchestra (chamberorchestra), Alisa Weilerstein (cello), Andrè Schuen (baritone), Daniel Heide (piano), Clemens Schuldt
Consistently engaging music from a composer who says what he needs to say. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Special offer. Vivaldi & Piazzolla: The Four Seasons
Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Munich Chamber Orchestra
For those who despair at the number of recent ‘HIP’ versions…in which Vivaldi’s onomatopoeic effects have been allowed to run riot, Steinbacher’s alluring tone, espressivo phrasing, subtle vibrato... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Coming soon. Beethoven & the Italians
Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 & 7 - Cherubini, Rossini, Spontini
Munich Chamber Orchestra, Enrico Onofri
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Schlichtig gives notably polished performances, backed by the finely blended, well-recorded playing of the Munchener Kammerorchester. His beautifully articulated passagework gives the Stamitz's... —
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Symmetry, the cyclic evolution of a musical germ and the idea of birth in the midst of death: all are fundamental to this disc. Webern's motivically determined orchestration of the Ricercar... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2003, Editor's Choice
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Bach - Violin & Voice
RecommendedArias and Duets for soprano and bass with Violino Obligato
Hilary Hahn (violin), Christine Schäfer (soprano) & Matthias Goerne (baritone), Flute: Henrik Wiese
Münchener Kammerorchester, Alexander Liebreich
…there's plenty to admire in Hahn's warm, expressive if occasionally over-mannered playing… Schäfer and Matthias Goerne, a few discomforts aside, yield nothing to Hahn in beauty of tone… —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th January 2010
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Mozart: Serenata
Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Posthorn - Haffner
Münchener Kammerorchester, Enrico Onofri
[The ‘Haffner’ Serenade] has the luxury of Isabelle Faust in the three movements that constitute a mini-concerto. She brings a more organic approach to rubato than Onofri manages elsewhere,... —
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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), Folkert Dücker (narrator), Anna Greiter (narrator), Günter Holzhausen, Max Hanft, Alexej Gorlatch, Bernhard...
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