SWR Vokalensemble
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Special offer. Koechlin - Vocal Works With Orchestra
RecommendedJuliane Banse (Soprano)
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart SWR, Heinz Holliger
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Premiere Recording Award
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Bruckner: Te Deum & Mass No. 3 in F Minor
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Sophie Harmsen, Daniel Behle (tenor), Franz-Josef Selig (bass), Erika Baikoff, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Matthew Rose (bass), SWR Vokalensemble, WDR Rundfunkchor, SWR Symphonieorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
This new version [of the Mass] by Pablo Heras-Casado features fine singing by the two radio choirs and four soloists. In particular, soprano Erika Baikoff impresses with her purity of tone and... —
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The SWR Vokalensemble’s atmospheric performance is sensitive to the minutiae of the dynamics, and the sound is bright and weighty. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral Recording of the Year
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Special offer. Charles Ives - Psalms
complete recording
Kay Johannsen (organ)
SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart, Marcus Creed
…nearly all the psalm settings on this disc… must have been written with his church choirs in mind. But it's hard to believe they were sung often or well, since they're written in frankly experimental... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2009, Editor's Choice
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Schnittke’s Concerto is among his mostrecorded works, this latest version from the SWR Vocal Ensemble and Principal Conductor Yuval Weinberg closer in tonal accuracy and textural clarity to... —
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Manoury: lab.oratorium
Rinnat Moriah (soprano), Tora Augestad (mezzo-soprano), Patrycia Ziolkowska, Sebastian Rudolph (actor), SWR Vokalensemble, lab.chor, IRCAM, Nicolas Stemann, Gurzenich-Orchester Koln, Francois-Xavier Roth
As a j’accuse aimed at the arrogance of European governments and attitudes, lab.oratorium hits home with force and a certain nervous tension between deeply felt aesthetic and moral imperatives. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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An attractive programme of 20th-century American music, moments of choral weight and exposed fragility alike approached with great individuality. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem)
RecommendedToby Spence (Tenor)
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Sir Roger Norrington
Norrington's approach is pensive, sober and funereal-but it's so well paced that the sense of inevitability underlines man's mortality, and the outbursts when they do come are more effective... —
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Building a Library, December 2006, SACD Choice
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The singers betray no lack of sympathy or stamina. Without pushing on the tempo or whipping up fake pathos, Frieder Bernius extracts every last drop of juice from Reger’s word-setting...For... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2016, Editor's Choice
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