Kirill Karabits
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Special offer. De Hartmann: Esther
RecommendedCorinne Winters (Esther), Yuriy Yurchuk (Assuérus), Andrew Foster-Williams (Mardochée), Bernard Richter (Aman), Olga Bezsmertna (Élise), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Hydaspe /Asaph), Paul Appleby (Chantre), The Grange Festival Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
Karabits proves a persuasive guide, shaping his forces with conviction, keeping its long spans focused and alive. The Grange Festival Chorus is a tour de force, supplying plenty of devotional... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2026, Opera Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th April 2026
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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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Special offer. Walton: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedBournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
One notoriously tricky passage after another…is brought off with top-flight panache and accuracy…Brilliant precision in the Scherzo, successful avoidance of over-emotive juice-extraction in... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Building A Library, July 2022, Also Recommended
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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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The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is its shining, sophisticated self, and there are plenty of opportunities for oboe, clarinet and horn solos…The music, though, is incidental…Nevertheless,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2017
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Corelli Variations
Vanessa Benelli Mosell (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
Mosell plays the Concerto wth verve and direction —
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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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Karabits, supported by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's outstandingly responsive playing, gives an utterly compelling account of the Third...Karabits's performance of No. 7, with both its... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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These works sound as if written at the turn of the 20th century, certainly by an admirer of Scriabin’s Divine Poem. Both, in fact, date from the 1950s…The Bournemouth Symphony play the music... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 'Babi Yar'
RecommendedOleg Tsibulko (bass), The Choir of the Popov Academy of Choral Art, Kozhevnikov Choir, Russian National Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
This beautifully engineered studio recording under Kirill Karabits has all the necessary adrenaline to keep the listener fully engaged. Karabits is particularly effective in negotiating the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th July 2020
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