BR Klassik
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Misha Didyk (Herman), Tatiana Serjan (Lisa), Larissa Diadkova (Countess), Alexey Shishlyaev (Tomskij and Plutus), Alexey Markov (Yeletzki)
Kinderchor der Bayerischen Staatsoper & Chor and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
Serjan is a vibrant, fearless Lisa...Hers is a voice with plenty of ‘blade’ when required, yet she can shade it beautifully...[Didyk] surprises with his baritonal depths here as Herman, as... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Choice
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Opera Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2017, Winner - Complete Opera Recording
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Special offer. Rossini: Sigismondo
Hera Hyesang Park, Marianna Pizzolato, Rachel Kelly, Kenneth Tarver, Gavan Ring, Guido Loconsolo, Il Hong, Olga Watts
Keri-Lynn Wilson
The drive and authority of [Wilson's] conducting work wonders for the piece. I like the way she rescues the Overture (reused by Rossini in revised form for Otello in Naples in 1816) from buffo... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Park/Pizzolato)
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Dvořák: Stabat Mater
version for soloists, choir and piano
Julia Kleiter (soprano), Gerhild Romberger (mezzo), Dmitry Korchak (tenor), Tareq Nazmi (bass), Julius Drake (piano)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Howard Arman
The excellent Bavarian Radio Chorus are encouraged to phrase accordingly, and the advantages of a compact, professional chorus in a work usually belonging to the choral-society tradition make... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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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 (Nazmi)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony & Poulenc: Organ Concerto
Iveta Apkalna, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
I can say that Apkalna is very musical and that the registers and voicing she selects are varied and colorful. The scale ranges from a delicate chamber organ to a walloping fortissimo with floor-shaking... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Verdi: Messa Da Requiem
Jessye Norman (soprano), Agnes Baltsa (alto), Jose Carreras (tenor), Yevgeny Nesterenko (bass), Chor und Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Riccardo Muti
At 35 José Carreras was nearly in the prime bloom of his voice; he sings the “Ingemisco” with style and no signs of operatic excess. Baltsa is also memorable for her musical, totally sincere... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Historical
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This is very nearly my perfect Bruckner Six…The slow movement is relatively fast-paced, and when I first heard it I couldn’t help wishing that it would expand just a bit more. But Bernard Haitink’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, Orchestral Choice
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No lover of this symphony will be content with less than half a dozen recordings, and this should undoubtedly be among them. —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2018, Orchestral Choice
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New. Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Joseph Haydn and extracts from the rehearsal
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Herbert Blomstedt
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André Caplet: Le Miroir de Jésus (The Mirror of Jesus)
Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano), Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Howard Arman
It’s ravishingly played and sung by Howard Arman’s Bavarian forces – taut without being tense, subtle without being unclear, and luminous in its lyricism and warmth. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Winner - Choral
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[Jansons's] concern with clean, lean but intense articulation is just what is needed...[He] pays a lot of attention to structure, and only puts on the brakes or accelerates where Tchaikovsky... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, Orchestral Choice
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