Simone Young
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Here is a Bruckner conductor who understands where the music is going and the contextual significance of detail. Young seems at one with Bruckner's sound world, how the music breathes and how... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011, Editor's Choice
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Johan Botha: Wiener Staatsoper Live
1997 - 2014: Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss
Johan Botha (tenor), Christian Gerhaher (Wolfram), Cheryl Studer (Elsa), James Rutherford (Sachs), Angela Denoke (Kundry), Marjana Lipovšek (Amme), Ricarda Merbeth (Daphne), Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Valentina Nafornită (Najade), Rachel Frenkel (Dryade), Olga Bezsmertna (Echo), Daniela Fally (Zerbinetta)
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The recorded sound is produced to a consistently pleasing quality, and one does sense the special atmosphere of the live performance. Live at Wiener Staatsoper, this first-rate collection is... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Reimann, A: Lear
Bo Skovhus (König Lear), Katja Pieweck (Goneril), Hellen Kwon (Regan), Siobhan Stagg (Cordelia) & Erwin Leder (Narr)
Philharmoniker Hamburg & Chor der Staatsoper Hamburg, Simone Young (conductor) & Karoline Gruber (stage director)
Their Lear's score is based on quick-moving accompanied recitative with underlaying or interposed instrumental mood and atmospheric descriptions...The energy and pace of the Reimann bear witness... —
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Special offer. Henze: Das Verratene Meer
Josh Lovell (Noboru/Nummer Drei), Vera-Lotte Boecker (Fusako Kuroda), Bo Skovhus (Ryuji Tsukazaki), Erik Van Heyningen (Nummer Eins), Kangmin Justin Kim (Nummer Zwei), Stefan Astakhov (Nummer Vier), Martin Hassler (Nummer Funf), Jorg Schneider (Stimme eines Schiffsmaats), Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper,...
[Young] unleashes the full force of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, the violence of its outbursts all the more powerful for the tautness of its control. Her focus is ferocious, and she never... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Christian Franz (Siegfried), Peter Galliard (Mime), Falk Struckmann (Der Wanderer), Wolfgang Koch (Alberich), Diogenes Randes (Fafner), Deborah Humble (Erda), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde) & Ha Young Lee (Stimme des Waldvogels)
Hamburg State Opera & Philharmoniker Hamburg, Simone Young
Christian Franz, though by no means ideal, has many of the qualities the role needs, including a pleasant voice and staying power...He also shows a sense of poetry, so that he doesn't come across... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Yvonne Naef (Sieglinde), Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde), Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Mikhail Petrenko (Hunding), Jeanne Piland (Fricka), Hellen Kwon (Gerhilde), Miriam Gordon-Stewart (Helmwige), Gabriele Rossmanith (Ortlinde), Katja Pieweck (Siegrune), Renate Spingler (Rossweiße),...
Young's balancing of orchestral textures is interestingly calculated, often novel, and most attentive to the written dynamics. …Polaski… is compelling. With Struckmann's Wotan… she achieves... —
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It’s an interesting collection, The excerpts aren’t always the obvious ones…Some of the singing isn’t terrific…but Prince Yeletsky in the Queen of Spades (1999) was the perfect role for him:... —
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Brahms: Symphonie n°4 (Le Décodeur du Classique)
Clément Lebrun, Orchestre de Paris and Fabien Gabel, Orchestre de Paris, Fabien Gabel, Simone Young
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