Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
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Her identification with the songs and their subject-matter appears total, and the artistic result both mesmerises and disturbs the listener...This is as near great singing as makes no difference. —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Winner - Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Female Singer of the Year
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
RecommendedBarbara Haveman (soprano), Claudia Mahnke (mezzo), Brandon Jovanovich (tenor), Gerhard Siegel (tenor), Thomas Bauer (baritone), Johannes Martin Kränzle (speaker)
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Domkantorei Köln, Männerstimmen des Kölner Domchores, Vokalensemble Kölner Dom, Chor des Bach-Vereins Köln,...
makes a vivid and spacious overall impression thanks to the alternately measured and passionate sway of Markus Stenz and the golden tones of the Gurzenich Orchestra. It is also strongly cast... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th June 2015
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Choral
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R. Strauss: Don Quixote & Till Eulenspiegel
with Alban Gerhardt (cello) & Lawrence Power (viola)
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Markus Stenz
Stenz gets the proportions exactly right. He plunges us into the delirium of the melancholy hero's addled brain with a clarity pointing forward to Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony...Adventurous... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, Disc of the month
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He’s far from the first to do so, but Roth makes the once-heretical case, through judicious observance of the score and an acute ear for sonority, that Schumann knew what he was doing… The slimmer... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2020, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
Olessa Golovneva (Iolanta), Alexander Vinogradov (René), Andrei Bondarenko (Robert), Dmytro Popov (Vaudémont), Vladislav Sulimsky (Ibn-Hakia), John Heuzenroeder (Alméric), Marc-Olivier Oetterli (Bertrand), Dalia Schaechter (Marta), Justyna Samborska, Marta Wryk (Laura)
Gürzenich Orchestra of...
as a young innocent, Golovneva's Iolanta is preferable to the fuller, darker soprano of Netrebko…Vinogradov's soft-grained bass is rock-solid and on magnificent form…Popov is in mellifluous,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2015, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Opera
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Sara Mingardo (contralto), Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Women's choir of Schola Heidelberg, Young singers of the Kölner Dom, François-Xavier Roth
[Roth] goes at the crazy world of the Third with all wind and brass guns blazing…He isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty with the raggle-taggle marchers of the first movement. Even the trombone... —
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Record Review, 2nd March 2019, Disc of the Week
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Rachmaninow: The Bells & Taneyev: John of Damascus
Dmytro Popov (tenor), Anna Samuil (soprano), Vladislav Sulimsky, Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Dmitri Kitayenko
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Roth’s is handsome work, resulting in trenchant strings with a superb bass line, perfectly focused in the storms of the first two movements ad the fugues of the finale. There’s a good sense... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Roth chooses the Fourth’s lessperformed original version. Missing in action is the famous ‘hunting horn’ Scherzo: its predecessor is less cohesive and exciting. The first movement trades the... —
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Record Review, 15th April 2023, Record of the Week
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