Birgit Remmert
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedLisa Milne (soprano) & Birgit Remmert (alto)
Budapest Festival Orchestra & The Hungarian Radio Choir, Iván Fischer
…Fischer… rarely pushes too hard. The orchestral sound is lean but not undernourished, allowing for even balance between contesting lines - outstanding in the funereal coda of the first movement... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Beethoven - Complete Symphonies
RecommendedCharlotte Margiono (soprano), Birgit Remmert (alto), Ridolf Schasching (tenor), Robert Holl (bass)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Brimful of intrepid character and interpretative incident, this is surely one of the most stimulating Beethoven symphony cycles of recent times. As Harnoncourt himself states in the booklet:... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Building a Library, July 2005, Budget Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Recording of the Year
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Building a Library, January 2020, Also Recommended
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Christine Brewer (soprano), Soile Isokoski (soprano), Juliane Banse (mezzo-soprano), Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano), Jane Henschel (mezzo-soprano), Jon Villars (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) & John Relyea (bass)
Toronto Children’s Chorus, City Of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus,...
Never have the fragments of first-movement themes, bouncing and billowing on a sea of azure blue, come across more clearly; never has the essential naivety of Mahler's vision been more convincing.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2005, Disc of the Month
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150th Anniversary Box - Mahler Complete Works
RecommendedCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Carlo Maria Giulini, Otto Klemperer, Paavo Järvi,...
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th July 2010
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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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Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle
RecommendedKrassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Birgit Remmert (alto), Steve Davislim (tenor), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass)
RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed
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Building a Library, November 2018, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Bach: Sacred Music in Latin, Vol. 2
Christoph Prégardien (Tenor), Ingeborg Danz (Mezzo soprano), Thomas Quasthoff (Bass), Michel Brodard (Bass), Ruth Ziesak (Soprano)
Stuttgart Gächinger Kantorei Choir, Stuttgart Bach Collegium Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Helmuth Rilling
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Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle, Barbara Bonney (soprano), Birgit Remmert (contralto), Kurt Streit (tenor), Thomas Hampson (baritone), City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
A superbly played account...Rattle’s must now be the strongest recommendation amongst modern Beethoven cycles. —
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Simon Rattle Conducts Beethoven
Lars Vogt (piano), Juliane Banse (soprano), Angela Denoke (soprano), Rainer Trost (tenor), László Polgár (bass), Ion Tibrea (bass), Thomas Ebenstein (tenor), Jon Villars (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone), Barbara Bonney (soprano), Birgit Remmert (contralto), Kurt Streit (tenor), Thomas Hampson...
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Special offer. Mendelssohn: Ein Sommernachtstraum & Die erste Walpurgisnacht
Pamela Coburn (soprano), Elisabeth von Magnus, Birgit Remmert (mezzos), Christoph Bantzer (reciter), Uwe Heilmann (tenor), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Rene Pape (bass)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Mendelssohn's highly potent brand of magic here in rhythmically robust live recordings of eight numbers from A Midsummer Night's Dream, and a formidable team of soloists for the spooky Walpurgisnacht. —
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