Thomas Dausgaard
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Sibelius: Kullervo
Benjamin Appl (baritone), Helena Juntunen (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Lund Male Chorus, Thomas Dausgaard
Every unorthodox texture, ostinato and accompaniment makes its mark…It’s good to have a focused, youthful chorus, in the shape of men from Sweden’s Lund University, rather than the usual wall... —
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…this disc is a good reminder of just how experimental Nielsen could be: prepared to try out not just different stylistic devices but even different kinds of persona. Thomas Dausgaard conducts... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, Orchestral Choice
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2007, Disc of the Month
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Here, by an exceptional command of long-term tempo relationships Dausgaard manages to unify the symphony into single whole. Without loss of intensity, it emerges as not only a psychological... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2016, Disc of the Month
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique’, Op. 74
RecommendedSwedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard
The virtues are self-evident: Dausgaard elicits some impressively accomplished and consistently bright-eyed playing, textures are sifted with watchful care...and his readings are abundantly... —
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Building a Library, June 2016, Also Recommended
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Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
RecommendedEstelí Gomez (soprano), John Taylor Ward (baritone)
Thomas Dausgaard
this is a wonderful addition to the catalog. Exceptional music, exceptionally well recorded, and exceptionally played by a fine
American orchestra led by a conductor who clearly has this repertoire... —Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Orchestral Performance
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R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, Trv 176 - Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54 (Live)
RecommendedSeattle Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard
Both [works] need this wide soundscape and the art that conceals art for the details in a clear, broad picture. We still get the timbres of woodwind and harps adding their splashes of colour;... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, Orchestral Choice
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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Langgaard: Music of the Spheres
RecommendedInger Dam-Jensen (soprano), Hetna Regitze Bruun (mezzo-soprano), Johan Reuter (baritone) & Peter Lodahl (tenor)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Danish National Concert Choir, Thomas Dausgaard
Amazing, sometimes banal but never dull. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th August 2010
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Choral Finalist
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Speed requires confidence, and you can feel the Seattle Symphony’s building with this further exploration of what remains an alien aesthetic to so many orchestras. More to the point, Nielsen’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Dausgaard is not the first conductor to use the 1841 version of the D minor Symphony… but… this performance, given by an orchestra of the size of Schumann himself would have known brings it... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Orchestral Finalist
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Right from the opening fanfares, there's a sense of joy and exhilaration, and the openness of the orchestral textures brings freshness and clarity. The ensemble’s lithe flexibility is used to... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Editor's Choice
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