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Special offer. Puccini: Suor Angelica
Kristine Opolais (Angelica), Lioba Braun (Princess), Nadezhda Serdyuk (Sister Monitor) & Mojca Erdmann (Sister Genovieffa)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons evokes atmosphere with energy and clean-cut textures. All told, the effect is slightly cool, but many will prefer it to overheated Italianate performances, especially with such a credibly... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, Opera Choice
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Stravinsky & Martin: Violin Concertos
Baiba Skride (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer
Skride's way with Stravinsky's Violin Concerto confirms it as a masterpiece of grace, charm and scintillating joie de vivre...Skride engages happily with the [Martin's] beguiling range of light... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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Müller-Schott ends this formidable unaccompanied recital with Pablo Casals’s Song of the Birds, played with the intense focus, the sense of line and the gleaming purity of tone that characterises... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Solo Instrumental Recital (Cello)
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Baiba Skride plays Benjamin Britten
Violin Concerto & Double Concerto
Baiba Skride (violin), ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
The subtlety of her phrasing and range of her tonal palette reveal Skride as a Romantic player of real stature, and in the Prokofiev-like scherzo she’s not afraid to dig in and make less beautiful... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2024, Concerto Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Piotr Beczala (Gustaf III), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Renato Ankarstrom), Krassimira Stoyanova (Amelia), Nadia Krasteva (Ulrica), Hila Fahima (Oscar), Wiener Staatsoper, Jesús López Cobos
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Wagner: Lohengrin
RecommendedMartti Talvela (King Henry), Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Claire Watson (Elsa), Walter Berry (Telramund), Christa Ludwig (Ortrud), Eberhard Waechter (Herald), Kurt Equiluz, Fritz Sperlbauer, Herbert Lackner & Ljubomir Pantscheff
Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Karl Böhm
Claire Watson excels her studio performances, singing Elsa with floods of pure tone that rarely falters...[Ludwig's] 'Entweihte Götter!' literally stops the show...Waechter makes a keen Herald,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2013, Re-issue of the Month
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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Special offer. Einem: Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit)
Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Horst Stein
Von Einem’s music chases Dürrenmatt’s scene-setting most (almost too) faithfully with colourful often loud tone-painting…The performance sounds well-organised (by conductor Stein) and fluent... —
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Gustav Mahler: Das Klagende Lied
Brigitte Poschner-Klebel (soprano), Marjana Lipovsek (mezzo-soprano), David Rendall (tenor), Manfred Hemm (baritone), Wiener Singakademie, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gielen
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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