BR Klassik
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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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1923 - The Wild Sound of the 20s: Bartók; Krenek; Toch; Weill
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Cristian Mačelaru, Howard Arman
The centenary of German radio is marked here by works composed at the time. Spikily characterful dance suites by Toch, Weill and Bartók neatly sum up the era, while Krenek’s a cappella choral... —
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Record Review, 18th February 2023, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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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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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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Special offer. Hartmann, K: Simplicius Simplicissimus
Camilla Nylund (Simplicius), Christian Gerhaher (Farm Worker/Narrator), Will Hartmann (Hermit/Governor) & Michael Volle (Farmer/Sergeant)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ulf Schirmer
This edition sounds taut and pungent under Ulf Schirmer's baton. Camilla Nylund sings gleamingly as the idealist Simplicius, and there are incisive yet pliable performances from the three excellent... —
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Opera, August 2010, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Wagner: Das Rheingold
Michael Volle (Wotan), Tomasz Konieczny (Alberich), Burkhard Ulrich (Loge), Elisabeth Kulman (Fricka), Herwig Pecoraro (Mime), Peter Rose (Fasolt), Eric Halfvarson (Fafner), Annette Dasch (Freia), Janina Baechle (Erda), Christian van Horn (Donner), Benjamin Bruns (Froh), Mirella Hagen (Woglinde),...
His conducting is fast, as Wagner preferred and intensely dynamic but he avoids Boulez's glibness, illuminating the drama of the moment in a mercurial, almost Solti-like fashion...he seems to... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Opera
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If you want a testimony to what it was we lost when Mariss Jansons died, listen to this disc. In big symphonic works Jansons always had a flair for bringing out both the long singing line and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Simon O'Neill (Siegfried), Michael Volle (Der Wanderer), Peter Hoare (Mime), Anja Kampe (Brünnhilde), Franz-Josef Selig (Fafner), Gerhild Romberger (Erda), Danae Kontora (Waldvogel), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle
Rattle shows a keen awareness of orchestral colour and brings an impressive dynamism to the music. His tendency is to be quite speedy – and there is certainly virtue in such an approach. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Orchestra of the Year
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Virtuoso conducting and immaculate orchestral playing —
