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Verdi: Requiem
RecommendedBarbara Frittoli (soprano), Olga Borodina (mezzo), Mario Zeffiri (tenor), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass)
Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Riccardo Muti
...much remains of the potency of [Muti's] classic 1979 recording...The Dies Irae, for instance, retains all his customary bite and fury...Frittoli's substantial soprano charts the emotions... —
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Classical Album of the Year
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113 'Babi Yar'
RecommendedAlexey Tikhomirov (bass), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Riccardo Muti
The tone virtually throughout is dark and intense, most particularly the opening movement which sets the title poem…Muti confirms his identification with this work in its subsequent movements…Tikhomirov,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Winner - Best Engineered Album (Classical)
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Contemporary American Composers
RecommendedElizabeth DeShong (mezzo), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti
this album stands as testimony to the Italian master’s innate musical understanding and ability to bring out the best in almost everything he conducts. —
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43
RecommendedChicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
With Haitink in charge of the Shostakovich, there can be no threat of exaggeration or distortion, no need to whip up a greater frenzy than the composer plotted. No conductor can make this long... —
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Orchestral Performance
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Miah Persson & Christianne Stotijn
Chicago Symphony Chorus & Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
…a scrupulously prepared mainstream reading that only hardened sceptics will dismiss as merely stolid. …Haitink's Urlicht is notable for the way Christianne Stotijn's rich mezzo is integrated... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
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Traditions & Transformations
RecommendedSounds of Silk Road Chicago
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Wu Man (pipa)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Silk Road Ensemble, Miguel Harth-Bedoya & Alan Gilbert
Bloch suggested the cello in Schelomo could represent the voice of Solomon. Ma invests the solo part with regal and sagacious qualities, but shot through with frailty. Khongorzul Ganbaatar... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th February 2008
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Miah Persson (soprano), Christianne Stotijn (mezzo)
Chicago Symphony Chorus & Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
This new, white-hot version of the C minor Resurrection, recorded live with the Chicago SO last year, has characteristic nobility, dynamic variety, detail, clarity, lyricism and, in the opening... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Disc of the Month
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (Live)
Piero Pretti (Turiddu), Anita Rachvelishvili (Santuzza), Ronnita Miller (Lucia), Luca Salsi (Alfio), Sasha Cooke (Lola), Alessandra Visconti
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Riccardo Muti
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CSO Resound - Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live
Christopher Martin (trumpet), John Hagstrom (trumpet), Anthony Kniffen (tuba)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, brass section, Jay Friedman, Mark Ridenour, Michael Mulcahy, Dale Clevenger
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