Hi Res Download, Mahler (composer)
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3
RecommendedGerhild Romberger (mezzo-soprano)
Augsburger Domsingknaben, Frauenchor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernard Haitink
a perfect beauty of a performance, natural sound matching natural evoution and every solo perfectly intoned —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th January 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Winner - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Recording of the Year
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Record Review, 7th January 2017, Recording of the Week
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedLisa Milne (soprano) & Birgit Remmert (alto)
Budapest Festival Orchestra & The Hungarian Radio Choir, Iván Fischer
…Fischer… rarely pushes too hard. The orchestral sound is lean but not undernourished, allowing for even balance between contesting lines - outstanding in the funereal coda of the first movement... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Editor's Choice
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There’s no doubt that the Munich-based orchestra is among the best in the world today...But what lifts this up among the very best Sixth Symphony recordings is the finale – this time perfectly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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The engineering abets the peerless attention to detail, always his greatest asset; every dynamic, every sonority is in place...the best way possible to celebrate what is, unbelievably, Rattle's... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th January 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2025, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2025
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2025, Musique Symphonique
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Petrenko has a way of hearing deep into textures and harmonies that is at times really quite startling. He gives us X-ray ears. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2021, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Orchestral
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Hans Rott: Symphony No. 1
RecommendedMahler: Blumine - Bruckner: Symphonisches Präludium
Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hrůša
Since its disinterring in 1989, there have been some fine recordings, but surely none more persuasive than this. Jakub Hrůša plainly loves the score and strives to characterise its every detail,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Symphonic Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Conductor of the Year
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New. Mahler: Lieder der Jugend
Songs of Youth and Awakening
Katharina Konradi (soprano), Sophie Rennert (mezzo), Mauro Peter (tenor), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Keenlyside navigates masterfully through idyllic happiness and despair... But what makes this release exceptional is how the singing of his three younger and less familiar colleagues holds its... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2026, Vocal Choice
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Bychkov is careful to keep the strings’ lyric funeral-marches objective, and it ’s fascinating how the Adagietto sounds otherworldly until the cellos bring in a richly portamentoed human warmth...the... —
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Record Review, 15th October 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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It’s the most lightly, as in ineffably, characterised Mahler One I’ve heard since Kubelík’s. Everything flows, moves forward without rush…And when he needs to, Fischer pulls out the stops –... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Orchestral
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Special offer. Contemplation
RecommendedHuw Montague Rendall (baritone), Opéra Orchestre Normandie Rouen, Ben Glassberg
The first thing one notices in this wide-ranging recital from rising baritone Huw Montague Rendall is his seriousness of purpose...There’s also top-rank work from the orchestra and conductor;... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2024, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024, Shortlisted - Debut Solo Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Voice & Ensemble
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International Opera Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Solo Recording
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