Orchestral, Chamber Symphonies
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Der ferne Klang... Orchestral Works & Songs by Franz Schreker
RecommendedChen Reiss (soprano), Matthias Goerne (baritone), Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Christoph Eschenbach
The playing of the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach is both meticulously prepared and wonderfully idiomatic. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th December 2023
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2023
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Special offer. Kirill Petrenko conducts Arnold Schoenberg
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko
Petrenko brings to it the charisma, the intensity, and cardinal virtues of fluent but absolute control over both line and detail that distinguished his performances of Schoenberg's tonal contemporaries...Taken... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner - Assorted Programs
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2025
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th December 2025
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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1, 14, 15 & Chamber Symphony
RecommendedBoston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons’s scrupulous, atmospheric attention to dynamic detail, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s sophisticated beauty and perfect engineering combine to give us finetuned mastery in Shostakovich’s... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th June 2021
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Record Review, 26th June 2021, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
RecommendedSiegfried Jerusalem, Susan Dunn, Brigitte Fassbaender, Hermann Becht, Peter Haage, Hans Hotter
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Städtischer Musikverein Düsseldorf, Riccardo Chailly
This vast cantata, a direct descendant of Wagnerian music-drama, was for the turn-of-the- century musical scene the ultimate gorgeous sunset. Schoenberg's forces are, to put it mildly, extravagant.... —
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Building a Library, February 2005, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2017, Also Recommended
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These are two of Weinberg’s most immediately approachable and engaging works, and they make an excellent introduction for newcomers to his output. Nor should anyone taking the economy option... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies & Piano Quintet
Gidon Kremer (violin/director), Yulianna Avdeeva (piano), Mate Bekavec (clarinet)
Kremerata Baltica, Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla
Kremer's commitment is clear in this compellingly performed release of the four chamber symphonies Weinberg composed during the last decade of his life...The overriding atmosphere in all these... —
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Record Review, 11th February 2017, Recording of the Week
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Shostakovich: Symphonies; Concertos; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District
RecommendedYuja Wang (piano), Baiba Skride (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, New England Conservatory Symphonic Choir, Andris Nelsons
It truly is a monumental collection that shows both Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the height of their capabilities...If forced to choose I would say that the second movement of... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th March 2025
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Roslavets: Chamber Symphony & In the hours of the New Moon
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2006, Editor's Choice
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Marin Alsop conducts MacMillan, Adès and Higdon
RecommendedColin Currie (percussion)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin Alsop
…a moving, compelling performance, and coupled with strong accounts of the phenomenal Adès Chamber Symphony… and Jennifer Higdon's essentially old-fashioned but well-wrought Percussion Concerto,... —
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Grammy Awards, 52nd Awards (2009), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Vienne 1900
Eric Le Sage (piano), Zvi Plesser (cello), Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
