Johannes Weisser
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Grieg: Piano Concerto & Incidental Music to 'Peer Gynt'
RecommendedJean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Lise Davidsen (soprano), Ann-Helen Moen (soprano), Victoria Nava (soprano), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Håkon Høgemo (Hardanger Fiddle)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choirs, Edward Gardner
Gardner and the splendid team tackle the whole work with all the verve and drama one could possible want…But perhaps most illuminating is the contribution of Håkon Høgemo on the Hardanger fiddle,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th January 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Beethoven: Leonore
RecommendedMarlis Petersen (Leonore), Maximilian Schmitt (Florestan), Dimitry Ivashchenko (Rocco), Johannes Weisser (Pizarro), Robin Johannsen (Marzelline), Johannes Chum (Jaqino), Tareq Nazmi (Don Fernando), Florian Feth, Julian Popken (Two Prisoners)
Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
Of the principals only Johannes Weisser’s Don Pizarro disappoints, and even he is strong in the dialogue. Jacobs’s tempos are fast – sometimes a bit skittishly so – and the sublimity one looks... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Record Review, 7th December 2019, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th December 2019
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Opera, March 2020, Disc of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Petersen)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
RecommendedSophie Karthäuser (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor, Johannes Weisser (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Choir members are the virtuosos here. Their flexibility enables them to enrich or bleach vocal colour, and flood or dry up volume levels, to the subtlest degree. Jacobs plays the choir like... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd November 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis, Op. 123
Polina Pasztircsák (soprano), Sophie Harmsen (mezzo), Steve Davislim (tenor), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Jacobs penetrates to the heart of the music with his customary insight and intelligence, though not without adding an enigma or two of his own…Jacobs is superb not only at communicating the... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2021
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Record Review, 13th February 2021, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedJohannes Weisser (Don Giovanni), Lorenzo Regazzo (Leporello), Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Donna Elvira), Olga Pasichnyk (Donna Anna), Kenneth Tarver (Don Ottavio), Sunhae Im (Zerlina), Nikolay Borchev (Masetto), Alessandro Guerzoni (Il Commendatore)
Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
If Jacobs is hardly the first modern conductor to present the opera in its 'original colours', his Don Giovanni is among the liveliest and most enjoyable on offer. It is certainly one of the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st October 2007
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2007, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Giulio Cesare), Karina Gauvin (Cleopatra), Romina Basso (Cornelia), Emoke Barath (Sesto), Filippo Mineccia (Tolomeo), Johannes Weisser (Achilla), Milena Storti (Nireno), Gianluca Buratto (Curio)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
if all ears were once on the Egyptian seductress Cleopatra, now they are focused on the grieving Roman widow Cornelia...Curtis presents a Giulio Cesare that is as volatile and ambiguous as Mozart's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Handel: Giove in Argo
Ann Hallenberg (Iside), Theodora Baka (Diana), Karina Gauvin (Calisto), Anicio Zorzi ('Arete' - Giove), Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani ('Arete' - Giove), Johannes Weisser (Licaone), Vito Priante (Erasto - Osiri)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
this reconstruction is notable for the unusual balance between arias and choruses, of which there are nine horns, oboe and recorders. Though the voices blend oddly with Curtis's choir, the choral... —
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Bach: Markus - Pasjonen
Svein Tindberg, Helena Ek (soprano), Tone Wik (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (vocalist), Johan Lindroth (tenor), Maria Stattin (vocalist), Geir Arne Andreassen (tenor), Johannes Weisser (bass-baritone), Nils Arne Helgerød (bass-baritone), Norsk Barokkorkester, Edward Higginbottom
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Bach, C P E: Die Israeliten in der Wüste, Wq. 238 (H775)
Anja Petersen (soprano), Sarah Maria Sun (soprano), Daniel Johannsen (tenor), Johannes Weisser (baritone)
Das Neue Orchester, Chorus Musicus Köln, Christoph Spering
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Special offer. Nuit Sacrée
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Pavol Breslik (tenor), Johannes Weisser (bass), Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello), Aurélie Saraf (harp) & Daniel Maurer (organ)
Accentus & Concerto Köln, Laurence Equilbey
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