Opera, Opera Excerpts, Wagner (composer)
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Special offer. In The Shadows
RecommendedMichael Spyres (baritenor), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
this is another fine, fascinating album from an unusually interesting and intelligent artist, handsomely recorded. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st March 2024
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Solo Vocal Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Voice & Ensemble
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International Opera Awards, 2024, Winner - Recording (Solo Recital)
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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The organ has a really gutsy, symphonic core... Jan Kraybill... plays with considerable verve and a feeling both for colour and for the grand gesture. —
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Kaufmann: Wagner
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (tenor), Markus Brück (bass-baritone)
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles
This new disc is mostly magnificent, but had me pining for more...Kaufmann may never sing Siegfried in the theatre, but the Forest Murmurs here, in an usually extended version, makes one long... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th February 2013
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Sunday Times, 2013, Best of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Vocal Award Winner
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The Wagner Project
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (baritone)
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
Goerne does misery masterfully … As Goerne’s Wotan kisses Brünnhilde to sleep, the moment is so intimate that (depending on your speakers) you might even feel a peck on the cheek. Yet this isn’t... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th November 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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Record Review, 23rd December 2017, Recording of the Week
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Opera
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The Organ of Westminster Cathedral
Robert Quinney (Westminster Cathedral organ, Henry Willis III, 1922-32)
It’s quite an achievement to pull off orchestral transcriptions for the organ that don’t have you missing the original, but Robert Quinney manages this on the magnificent Westminster Cathedral... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
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Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts Strauss & Wagner
RecommendedKirsten Flagstad
Philharmonia Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler
The world premiere of Four Last Songs in its best transfer ever, plus some previously unissued Wagner from the same concert. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th March 2007
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Historic Archive
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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Wagner - Overtures & Preludes
RecommendedLilo Brockhaus, Carlotta Ordassy, Barbro Ericson, Cvetka Ahlin, Helga Jenckel, Liselotte Rebmann, Danica Mastilovic, Ingrid Steger
Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bamberger Symphoniker, Karl Böhm, Rafael Kubelik, Herbert von Karajan,...
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 & Wagner: Siegfried’s Funeral March
RecommendedGewandhausorchester, Andris Nelsons
What elevates these performances for me is the fact that Nelsons takes equal care over the string parts...Having said that, the brass certainly don't disappoint either: the outbursts of the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Orchestral
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Margaret Price (Isolde), René Kollo (Tristan), Brigitte Fassbaender (Brangaene), Kurt Moll (König Marke), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Kurwenal), Werner Götz (Melot), Anton Dermota (Hirt)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, Carlos Kleiber
Kleiber directs a compellingly impulsive reading, crowned by the glorious Isolde of Margaret Price, the most purely beautiful of any complete interpretation on record —
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Special offer. Mahler & Wagner - Lieder
Transcribed for chamber ensemble by Christian Favre
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano)
Quatuor Schumann
What a revelation this disc actually turns out to be. Lott's voice brings wonderful subtlety and intensity to the music, Isolde's death scene in particular. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2008, Editor's Choice
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