RCO Live
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Honegger: Symphony No. 3
RecommendedLuba Orgonásová (soprano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Netherlands Radio Choir, Mariss Jansons
The Netherlands Radio Choir is impressively well-drilled… The Slovakian soprano Luba Orgonásová soars majestically over the whole, alternately creating serenity and high drama as required.... —
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Building a Library, March 2008, First Choice
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Building a Library, November 2010, First Choice
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Building a Library, February 2020, Recommended Recording
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Dvorak - Requiem & Symphony No. 8
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Mihoko Fujimura (alto), Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor) & Thomas Quasthoff (bass)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, with Vienna Singverein, Mariss Jansons
[Jansons] clearly understands the dynamics of this strongly unified work and nearly everywhere his tempos are well judged. He is also very well served by superb choral singing and orchestral... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, Editor's Choice
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Berlioz: Requiem
Javier Camarena (tenor), Chorus Santa Cecilia, Concertgebouworkest, Antonio Pappano
One could go on about the beauties and musical virtues of this release, but suffice to say that it is by far the best Berlioz Requiem in years. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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this is wonderful, sensuous, lush sound … Jansons has a great sensitivity to style. —
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Recorded live in Nov 2017, this is a beautifully detailed, sweeping performance. Soprano Julia Kleiter is superb in the final movement. —
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It remains the most disjointed of Mahler’s works, yet Jansons and the RCO dispel all doubts with the coherence of the conducting and the excellence of the playing: the brass glorious, the woodwind... —
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it's the subtler aspects, the perfect matching of instrumental entries and the sensual seamlessness of it all, which remain in the memory —
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Hot on the heels (or so it seems) of Jansons's LSO Live recording… comes this rival version from his own orchestra's label. The first movement again kicks off at a remorseless march tempo…... —
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as good as live performance on CD can get —
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 'Leningrad'
RecommendedRoyal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Orchestral Award Winner
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