BR Klassik
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Vasks: Musica dolorosa, Musica serena, Musica Appassionata & Klātbūtne
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ivan Repušić
Three of Vasks’s cycle of four ‘musicae’ for string orchestra are given radiant performances...Each work has a different emotional impetus but all f low with an immediate, searing lyricism from... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Composer of the Year
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musica viva, vol. 47 - Liza Lim
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), William Barton (digeridoo), Carin Levine (flute)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Edward Gardner, Franck Ollu, Christoph Poppen
Liza Lim is a weaver of worlds. An Australian of Chinese heritage, her music arises from a transcultural urge far deeper than surface references and extending into realms of ecology, metaphysics... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2025, Concerto Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Premiere
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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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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Composer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto Recording of the Year
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Helmut Lachenmann: My Melodies
Helmut Lachenmann (narrator), Johann Jahn (narrator), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Matthias Hermann
Score, performance, recording: all as exhilarating as a work for eight horns and orchestra has any right to be. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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Coming soon. musica viva - vol. 52 Mark Andre – Nikolaus Brass – Karlheinz Stockhausen
Frank Reinecke (soloist)
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Arvo Pärt; Francis Poulenc; Igor Stravinsky: Choral and Orchestral Works
Genia Kühmeier, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
One can hardly imagine these three pieces...put together with more coherence and authority than in this version by Mariss Jansons. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Choral Music
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musica viva #50 Berio: Coro + Zuraj: Automatones
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle
Rattle's version [of Coro], if not the last word, undoubtedly sets new standards for capturing the all-round power and pathos of a defining work of its era. —
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Milica Djordjević: Mali Svitac; Quicksilver; Čvor; Mit O Ptici
Christof Hartkopf (soloist), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Duncan Ward, Peter Rundel, Johannes Kalitzke
Duncan Ward directs a superb performance, visceral, uncompromising – exactly as it should be… This is a phenomenal performance, the Choir of the Bavarian Radio clearly used to Modernist music,... —
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Ondřej Adámek: Musica Viva: Follow Me; Where Are You?
Isabelle Faust, Magdalena Kožená, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Peter Rundel, Sir Simon Rattle
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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