WDR Rundfunkchor Köln
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Wagner: Lohengrin
RecommendedJohan Botha (Lohengrin), Adrianne Pieczonka (Elsa), Falk Struckmann (Telramund), Petra Lang (Ortrud), Kwangchul Youn (King Heinrich), Eike Wilm Schulte (Herald)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, NDR Chor & Prager Kammerchor, Semyon Bychkov
Semyon Bychkov conducts a robustly powerful yet airily textured performance, keenly dramatic yet finely detailed. His Cologne orchestra and various choruses, focused and involved, sound tremendous... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th April 2010
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Disc of the Year & Opera Award Winner
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Opera, June 2009, Recording of the Month
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Terje Stensvold (Der Holländer), Kwangchul Youn (Daland), Anja Kampe (Senta), Christopher Ventris (Erik), Jane Henschel (Mary), Russell Thomas (Der Steuermann)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln & NDR Chor, Andris Nelsons
Stensvold's Dutchman is noble and warm-toned, but conveys little deep feeling...That leaves the honours to Jane Henschel's lively Mary, and still more to Anja Kampe's Senta. Her voice has hardened... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Puccini: Suor Angelica
Kristine Opolais (Angelica), Lioba Braun (Princess), Nadezhda Serdyuk (Sister Monitor) & Mojca Erdmann (Sister Genovieffa)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons evokes atmosphere with energy and clean-cut textures. All told, the effect is slightly cool, but many will prefer it to overheated Italianate performances, especially with such a credibly... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Elisabeth Grümmer (soprano) & Hermann Prey (baritone)
Kölner Rundfunkchor & Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Otto Klemperer
Klemperer underlines the grand architectural proportions of the German Requiem while piercing close to its spiritual heart...the performance itself builds in monumental intensity from a fairly... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Mozart: Complete Masses Vol. 1
Mass No. 16 'Coronation Mass' & Missa longa
Carolina Ullrich (soprano), Marie Henriette Reinhold (mezzo-soprano), Angelo Pollak (tenor), Konstantin Krimmel (bass), West German Radio Chorus Cologne, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Poppen
Under Poppen, K262’s Kyrie bowls along at quite a lick, its counterpoint muscular and surprisingly bouncy given the character of the text...Poppen secures some incisive string interjections... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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Scriabin: Symphony No. 2 & Le Poème de l'Extase
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Dmitri Kitayenko
Detailed, soul-enriching performances. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Dvořák: The King and the Charcoal Burner (Král a Uhlír)
Dalibor Jenis (King Matyáš), Peter Mikuláš (Matěj), Michelle Breedt (Anna), Lívia Aghová (Liduška), Michal Lehotsky (Jenik), Markus Schäfer (Jindřich)
Prague Chamber Choir, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln & WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Gerd Albrecht
Dvorák's delightful The King and the CharcoalBurner was the second opera that he wrote and the first to be staged. In its first form it was abandoned during rehearsal as being too complex and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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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. Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements, etc.
RecommendedSouthwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gielen
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Building A Library, May 2022, Also Recommended
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