BR Klassik
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Haydn: Die Schöpfung (The Creation)
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Benjamin Bruns (tenor), Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle
Simon Rattle presents an altogether vivid and engrossing account of Haydn’s g reat oratorio, making the most out of its famous dramatic and pictorial effects...This must surely take its place... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Choral
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Special offer. Mozart: Idomeneo
RecommendedAndrew Staples (Idomeneo), Magdalena Kožená (Idamante), Sabine Devieilhe (Ilia), Elsa Dreisig (Elettra), Linard Vrielink (Arbace), Allan Clayton (High Priest of Neptune), Tareq Nazmi (Voice of the Oracle)
Symphonieorchester und Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Simon Rattle's energetic and sensitive direction mirror the Mannheimers' dynamism and virtuosity...[Staples] brings fine diction and expressivity... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Herbert Blomstedt
[Blomstedt] must be the oldest conductor still at work with some of the world’s major orchestras, but there’s nothing old-fashioned about these warm and heartfelt performances of Mozart ’s last... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Sally Matthews (soprano), Gerhild Romberger (contralto), Mark Padmore (tenor), Gerald Finley (bass)
Chor und Symphonieorchester der Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernard Haitink
This is a big, impressive performance of the Ninth that will appeal to any listener who wants their Beethoven served up that way. Haitink’s admirers, it goes without saying, will not want to... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Romberger)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year (Padmore)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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The baritone’s voice, not a large, juicy or powerful instrument, is helped by the engineers (in performance, balance can be a major issue with these arrangements), allowing us to hear plenty... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Vocal Recording of the Year
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Beethoven: The Symphonies
and reflections
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
Jansons adopts...an approach which takes into consideration the historically informed approach of the last 30 years, but is still aware of what performances were like in the great German tradition...If... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Franz Schubert: Schubertiade
Justus Zeyen, Merit Ostermann, Andrew Lepri Meyer, Christina Landshamer (soprano), Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Howard Arman
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Choral Music
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Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in C major 'The Great'
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
An excellence of this new live recording is the way Mariss Jansons and his Bavarian players subtly bring out the harmonic changes or enrichments of surrounding part-writing with which Schubert... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Great Singers Live: Margaret Price
Selection from three “Sunday Concerts” with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester given in 1977, 1981, 1986 and 1991
Margaret Price (soprano)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Heinz Wallberg, Leopold Hager & Thomas Fulton
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Opera, April 2012, Recording of the Month
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Coming soon. Seiji Ozawa conducts Beethoven and Strauss
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Seiji Ozawa
