Anna Larsson
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
RecommendedAlwyn Mellor (soprano), Anna Larsson (mezzo-soprano), Stuart Skelton (tenor), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (tenor), James Creswell (bass) & Sir Thomas Allen (speaker)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Edward Gardner
The hero is Edward Gardner, under whose wonderfully flexible beat this hyper-Romantic music positively breathes in long lyrical phrases and paragraphs. Nor are the excitements lacking: the coda... —
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Building a Library, March 2017, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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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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Special offer. Puccini: Il Trittico
RecommendedIl Tabarro
Lucio Gallo (Michele), Aleksandrs Antonenko (Luigi), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Giorgetta), Alan Oke (Tinca), Jeremy White (Talpa), Irina Mishura (La Frugola), Ji-Min Park (Venditore), Robert Anthony Gardiner (Due Amanti)
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Ermonela...
a triumph...three wonderfully directed and expertly acted productions. Add in Pappano's impeccable conducting and his valuable introductions to the pieces, and you have a nigh-on ideal Trittico. —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2012, Blu-ray of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, DVD & Blu-ray Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Opera
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Mahler: Symphonies 1-9
Elena Mosuc (soprano - Symphony No. 2) & Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo - Symphony No. 2), Anna Larsson (contralto - Symphony No. 3), Laura Claycomb (soprano - Symphony No. 4), Viktoria Yastrebova, Ailish Tynan, Ludmila Dudinova (sopranos - Symphony No. 8), Lilli Paasikivi, Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo-sopranos...
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Simon O’Neill (Siegfried), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Iain Paterson (The Wanderer), Martin Winkler (Alberich), Clive Bayley (Fafner), Malin Christensson (Woodbird), Anna Larsson (Erda), Rachel Nicholls (Brünnhilde)
Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
The outstanding performances here come from the Hallé and their music director. With quality playing from all departments, Wagner’s complex orchestral timbres are carefully presented, while... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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Magisterial power in sombre and radiant marches, the subtlest rubato in the old-new minuet which follows, establish Ádám Fischer as one of the greatest living Mahler conductors…Engineering render... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Orchestral (19th-century music)
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Strauss, R: Daphne
Renée Fleming (Daphne), Johan Botha (Apollos), Michael Schade (Leukippos), Kwanchul Youn (Peineios), Anna Larsson (Gaea)
Orchestra & Chorus of West Deutscher Rundfunk, Semyon Bychkov
Renée Fleming's many admirers should be pleased enough with her gracious performance. She deals idiomatically with Strauss's long phrases and points the text well… —
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Wagner: Siegfried
Live recording from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2012
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Peter Bronder (Mime), Terje Stensvold (Der Wanderer), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Anna Larsson (Erda) & Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde)
Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) & Guy Cassiers (stage director)
Not only does Barenboim have complete control of the shape of Wagner's enormous acts, but there are enormous numbers of details, often witty and pertinent, and immense climaxes...[Stensvold]... —
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Anna Larsson (contralto, Women Of The Los Angeles Master Chorale (chorus), The Paulist Boy Choristers of California (chorus)
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen
In many ways this is an admirable Mahler Third. Salonen seems to have a clear sense not only of where each movement is going but also of the overall trajectory of the symphony. Such reservations... —
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Mahler: Complete Symphonies
Melanie Diener (soprano - No. 2), Barbara Bonney (soprano - No. 4), Petra Lang (mezzo - Nos. 2 & 3), Jane Eaglen, Anne Schwanewilms, Ruth Ziesak (sopranos - No. 8), Sara Fulgoni, Anna Larsson (contraltos - No. 8), Ben Heppner (No. 8), Peter Mattei (baritone - No. 8), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass...
Chailly's strong, satisfying approach to Mahler, without eccentricity, is supported by the superb playing of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra throughout and the demonstration quality of the... —
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