Opera, Zemlinsky (composer)
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Vladimir Jurowski conducts Zemlinsky
RecommendedHeike Wessels (mezzo soprano), Sergey Skorokhodov (tenor) & Albert Dohmen (baritone), Petra Lang (mezzo soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Jurowski demonstrates a masterly control of dramatic pace, ratcheting up the tension slowly but surely so that the final denouement reaches a devastating climax. The LPO proves superbly responsive... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd June 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Special offer. Zemlinsky: Eine Florentinische Tragodie
Aušrinė Stundytė (soprano), John Lundgren (bass-baritone), Nikolai Schukoff (tenor), Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Albrecht
John Lundgren is the vengeful merchant, by turns vicious and oleaginous as he wheedles his rival. If the voice is expressive rather than lyric that’s all to the good and in contrast to Nikolai... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Zemlinsky: Eine Florentinische Tragödie Op. 16
Heidi Brunner (Bianca), Wolfgang Koch (Simone) & Charles Reid (Guido Bardi)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bertrand De Billy
The vitality of Bertrand de Billy’s conducting and the richness of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra’s playing in this 2010 concert recording are both extremely compelling. Wolfgang Koch provides... —
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Record Review, 17th February 2018, Recording of the Week
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Opera, April 2018, Recording of the Month
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Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony Op. 18, etc.
RecommendedSoile Isokoski & Bo Skovhus
Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, James Conlon
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Building A Library, April 2022, Also Recommended
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Billed as ‘Kate Lindsey with Baptiste Trotignon’, it reveals the jazz pianist, who shows luminous classical credentials here too, as equal to the mezzo’s multi-hued originality…I’d like to hear... —
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Special offer. Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg
RecommendedElena Tsallagova (Donna Clara), Emily Magee (Ghita), David Butt Philip (Der Zwerg), Mick Morris Mehnert (Der Zwerg - actor), Philipp Jekal (Don Estoban)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles, Tobias Kratzer (director)
This is a work that deliberately challenges audiences, but which is here played with a breathtaking combination of imagination and responsibility. Zemlinsky’s lush masterpiece is vividly presented... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg
RecommendedElena Tsallagova (Donna Clara), Emily Magee (Ghita), David Butt Philip (Der Zwerg), Mick Morris Mehnert (Der Zwerg - actor), Philipp Jekal (Don Estoban)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles, Tobias Kratzer (director)
This is a work that deliberately challenges audiences, but which is here played with a breathtaking combination of imagination and responsibility. Zemlinsky’s lush masterpiece is vividly presented... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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A Recital With Renée Fleming
Vienna At The Turn Of The 20th Century
Renée Fleming (soprano) & Maciej Pikulski (piano)
Fleming builds up a great sense of pathos in 'Um Mitternacht' and delivers a deeply affecting account of 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' supported by some wonderfully sensitive phrasing... —
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Special offer. Alexander Zemlinsky: A Florentine Tragedy
Christopher Maltman (Simone), Rachael Wilson (Bianca), Benjamin Bruns (Guido), Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Patrick Hahn
the Munich cast [is] led by a central performance of hugely impressive, granitic authority from Christopher Maltman, underlining the remarkable recent transformation to fully fledged dramatic... —
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Ballads of the Pleasant Life: Kurt Weill, Weimar and Exile
Peter Coleman-Wright (baritone)
Nexas Quartet
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