BR Klassik
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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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Special offer. Puccini: Le Villi
Anita Hartig (Anna), Kang Wang (Roberto), Boris Pinkhasovich (Guglielgmo)
Munich Radio Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Ivan Repušić
this polished recording features three principals whose performances are unostentatious yet musically pleasing. A velvet-voiced Anita Hartig characterises the role of Anna as winningly modest... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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This new release of Mahler’s profoundest symphony is a live recording with all the detailed eloquence and intensity one might expect from Simon Rattle in concert. Yet it also suggests a maturing... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2022, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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New. Mahler: Symphony No. 4 - Bernard Haitink
Juliane Banse (soprano), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernard Haitink
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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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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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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Stuart Skelton (tenor), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Simon Rattle
What is perhaps most immediately striking is the detail and brilliance of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra’s playing…[Skelton] makes a fine, handsome sound and offers something special... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2018
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Mariss Jansons conducts Richard Strauss
RecommendedThe 100th release of BR-KLASSIK Label!
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
Live recordings…with character and excitement. The Alpine Symphony storm is impressively gutsy. —
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended - Eine Alpensinfonie
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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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Puccini: I Canti - Orchestral Songs & Works
RecommendedCharles Castronovo (tenor), Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ivan Repušić
The most worthwhile element of this collection is the vocalism of American Charles Castronovo, whose tonal qualities are as Italianate as his name and who is in easy command of his appealing... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th January 2024
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Solo Vocal Recording of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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