Staatskapelle Weimar
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Liszt: A Faust Symphony & Mephisto Waltz No. 3
Airam Hernández (tenor), Staatskapelle Weimar, Kirill Karabits
The Staatskapelle Weimar, plays with stunningly rounded beauty, recorded in flawless sound...I cannot recommend these performances too highly. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Liszt: Sardanapalo
RecommendedJoyce El-Khoury (Mirra), Airam Hernández (King), Oleksandr Pushniak (Beleso)
Weimar Staatskapelle, Kirill Karabits
The torso of Liszt’s Sardanapalo may only last around 50 minutes, but it packs in such a richness of gratification that it is hard to see where the opera would have gone from there...The music... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th February 2019
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Découverte
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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Paul Dessau: Lanzelot
Emily Hindrichs (Elsa), Mata Solyom-Nagy (Lanzelot), Oleksandr Pushniak (Dragon), Staatskapelle Weimar, Opernchor des Deutschen Nationaltheaters, Chor des Theaters Erfurt, Dominik Beykirch
The score employs substantial forces and parodies many styles. In this 2019 Weimar recording, the three main principals work hard at their vocally punishing roles: Máté Sólyom-Nagy as Lanzelot,... —
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Opera, March 2023, Disc of the Month
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Complete Opera)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Premiere Recordings
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Special offer. Antal Doráti: Piano Concerto; Mátyás Seiber: Orchestral Suite From 'the Invitation'; Renaissance Dance Suite
Oliver Triendl (piano), Staatskapelle Weimar, Domonkos Héja
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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This is a magnificent record. The Weimar Staatskapelle are rare visitors to disc, but they are a top-class orchestra, with superb strings which sound overwhelmingly, sensuously beautiful in... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2006, Editor's Choice
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Liszt: Dante Symphony, Künstlerfestzug; Tasso
RecommendedStaatskapelle Weimar, Knabenchor der Jenaer Philharmonie, Damen des Opernchores des Deutschen Nationaltheaters Weimar, Kirill Karabits, Berit Walther
Karabits and the Staatskapelle offer powerful and well-balanced accounts, taking the works on their own terms and drawing out the best they have to offer…In the Symphony’s Magnificat, the two... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th January 2020
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Diapason d’Or, April 2020, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Albrecht’s players establish a magical silkiness in the Prelude, delicately reflect Isolde’s arousal after the horn call in Act II and create a hallucinatory momentum for the lovers’ mounting... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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Schellendorf: Piano Concerto
Piano Trio Op. 1 - Romance
Oliver Triendl (piano), Staatskapelle Weimar, Eugene Tzigane
Triendl is perfectly in tune with the idiom, delivering the demanding solo part with tremendous panache and making a most persuasive case for the work to be heard more often. —
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