Yvonne Naef
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Ravel: L’enfant et les sortileges & Shéhérazade
RecommendedIsabel Leonard (L'Enfant), Yvonne Naef (Mother, Chinese Cup, Dragonfly), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Teapot, Arithmetic and Frog), Elliot Madore (Grandfather Clock/Tomcat), Paul Gay (Armchair/Tree), Anna Christy (Princess, Fire, Nightingale)
Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Susan Graham has absolutely the right voice for this music and knows it well. Her French is fine and I'm delighted she respects Ravel's carefully notated vocal slides. —
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Opera Recording
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
RecommendedMelanie Diener, Julianne Banse, Lisa Larsson (sopranos), Yvonne Naef, Birgit Remmert (mezzos), Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), Stephen Powell (baritone), Askar Abdrazakov (bass)
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Schweizer Chamber Choir, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, David Zinman
It sounds tall, wide and handsome in that wonderfully open Zinman way, and in the central development section he and his engineers ensure that we hear right into the texture, our ears led on... —
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Renate Behle (soprano), Yvonne Naef (mezzo), Glenn Winslade (tenor), Hanno Muller-Brachmann (bass)
SWR-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Michael Gielen
In my opinion, all things considered, Gielen’s is now the most consistently satisfying Beethoven symphony set available, from any era...A firm sense of the work’s architecture, or structural... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Yvonne Naef (Sieglinde), Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde), Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Mikhail Petrenko (Hunding), Jeanne Piland (Fricka), Hellen Kwon (Gerhilde), Miriam Gordon-Stewart (Helmwige), Gabriele Rossmanith (Ortlinde), Katja Pieweck (Siegrune), Renate Spingler (Rossweiße),...
Young's balancing of orchestral textures is interestingly calculated, often novel, and most attentive to the written dynamics. …Polaski… is compelling. With Struckmann's Wotan… she achieves... —
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Special offer. Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
Robert Dean Smith (Waldemar), Yvonne Naef (Waldtaube), Andreas Schmidt (Narrator), Melanie Diener (Tove), Ralf Lukas (Peasant), Gerhard Siegel (Klaus-Narr)
Bavarian Radio Chorus, Middle German Radio Choir Leipzig, South German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gielen
This 'Gurrelieder is grand opera. It might even be thought of as "modern Wagner" and, in fact, sounds more Wagnerian in terms of sound, styling, and phrasing than any reading I've heard. It... —
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 & Adagio from Symphony No. 10
Quinn Kelsey (baritone), Ragnar Bohlin (director), Yvonne Naef (mezzo-soprano), Laura Claycomb (soprano), Katarina Karnéus (mezzo-soprano), Susan McMane (director), Elza van den Heever (soprano), Erin Wall (soprano), James Morris (bass-baritone), Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), Kevin Fox (director),...
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Boulez A-Z: Schoenberg - Strauss
Alexander Meraviglia-Crivelli (videoscripteditor), Othmar Eichinger (videoscripteditor), Mitsuko Uchida (piano), Christine Schäfer (soprano, speaker), Anne Decoville (videoscripteditor), David Pittman-Jennings (baritone, speaker), Chris Merritt (tenor), Gabriele Fontana (soprano), John Graham Hall...
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Bruckner: Te Deum
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Yvonne Naef (mezzo-soprano), Christoph Strehl (tenor), Günther Groissböck (bass)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernard Haitink
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Verdi: Falstaff
Carlo Bosi (tenor), Erika Grimaldi (soprano), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Roxana Constantinescu (mezzo-soprano), Luca Salsi (baritone), David Shipley (bass (vocal)), Yvonne Naef (contralto), Luca Casalin (tenor), Ying Fang (soprano), Atalla Ayan (tenor), Verbier Festival Orchestra, Oberwalliser...
I’ve never heard a better recording in the modern era than this one…In the end, Terfel at last delivers the magnificent Falstaff that was always in him waiting to get out. One can sit back and... —
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Coming soon. Beethoven: The Essentials
Friedrich Gulda (piano), Emil Gilels (piano), Josef Suk (violin), Janos Starker (cello), Rudolf Buchbinder (piano), Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), David Geringas (cello), Ian Fountain, Renate Behle (soprano), Yvonne Naef (mezzo-soprano), Glenn Winslade (tenor), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (baritone), Amanda...
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