Anne Schwanewilms
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Special offer. Verdi: Otello
RecommendedSimon O’Neill (Otello), Gerald Finley (Iago), Anne Schwanewilms (Desdemona), Allan Clayton (Cassio), Ben Johnson (Roderigo), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Lodovico), Matthew Rose (Montano), Lukas Jakobski (Herald) & Eufemia Tufano (Emilia)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
everything contributes to accentuating extremes: Colin Davis gets the LSO, in shattering form, to play chords like cannon shots...The two male leads are superb: Simon O'Neill is the most complete... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st November 2010
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2010, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Berg: Wozzeck
RecommendedRoman Trekel (Wozzeck), Anne Schwanewilms (Marie), Marc Molomot (Captain), Nathan Berg (Doctor), Gordon Gietz (Drum Major), Robert McPherson (Andres), Katherine Ciesinski (Margret), Calvin Griffith (First Apprentice), Samuel Schultz (Second Apprentice), Brenton Ryan (Madman)
Houston Symphony...
This live, 2013 concert performance by the Houston Symphony, under their then outging musical director Hans Graf, benefits from a stellar cast. Much is paid to orchestral detail, and Berg’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2017, Editor's Choice
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Opera Recording
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Not just for Salome did Strauss demand several voices in one: here he ranges from the ditzy skitterings of the Ophelia Songs via the full-on operatic scena that is the Schwarzkopf favourite... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Vocal Finalist
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Judith Howarth (soprano), Anne Schwanewilms (soprano), Sofia Fomina (soprano), Michaela Selinger, Patricia Bardon (contralto), Barry Banks (tenor), Matthew Rose (bass), Stephen Gadd, Tiffin Boys' Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Choir of Clare...
London choral singing has been among the best in the world. Here it is transcendent. No tempo is too fast, no dynamics too challenging, no high notes too fearsome—the two choruses sail though... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 18th December 2021, Record of the Week
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedAnne Schwanewilms (soprano) & Olga Borodina (mezzo)
Münchner Philharmoniker & Munich Philharmonic Choir, Valery Gergiev
It reminds me a little of Karajan at his paradoxical best/worst: magnificently convincing in its artistic overview, rather less persuasive when it comes to what Henry James called the ‘sharpness... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th September 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
RecommendedAnne Schwanewilms (soprano), with Jutta Böhnert (Sophie) & Regina Richter (Octavian)
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Markus Stenz
There’s some wonderful singing [in the Capriccio extract]...She’s also excellent as Arabella. At the start of the solo her singing is touching and with a hint of vulnerability to it. Later...she... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th July 2012
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Fans of the Hallé will be delighted with Mark Elder's intense but spacious accounts of the tone poems here… Schwanewilms often begins with lines of instrumental purity, beautifully attuned... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2005, Editor's Choice
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Schwanewilms's interpretations are regularly imaginative, her singing musicianly, though not all of her vocalism matches her good intentions. There's sometimes...an edge to her tone that combines... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedAnne Schwanewilms (soprano) & Lioba Braun (contralto)
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra & Bamberg Symphony Choir, Jonathan Nott
Jonathan Nott [reaches] new peaks in his Bamberg cycle...What uplift, rather than crushing weight, in those opening lower-string flourishes...The consoling vision just gets more magical on each... —
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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Dennoch (Nevertheless): Works By Alban Berg and Stefan Heucke
Anne Schwanewilms (soprano), Manuel Lange (piano)
