Dacapo
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Nielsen: The Mother
RecommendedPalle Knudsen (baritone), Lovisa Wennesz (harp), Rune Most, Christine Nonbo Andersen (voice), Rasmus Gravers Nielsen (voice), Steffen Bruun (voice), Rikke Lender (voice), Malene Nordtorp (voice), Rafaell Altino (viola), Adam Riis, Ole Bartholin Kiilerich (piano), Eugen Tichindeleanu (violin), Jovana...
tenor Adam Riis has the most tuneful numbers, but baritone Palle Knudsen steals the show as the Fool, with his cynical songs. The Odense Symphony Orchestra, “one of Denmark’s five regional orchestras”... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Special offer. Mozart: Lucio Silla, K135
Henriette Bonde-Hansen (soprano), Susanne Elmark (soprano), Kristina Hammarström (mezzo soprano), Jakob Næslund Madsen (tenor), Simone Nold (soprano), Lothar Odinius (tenor) & Richard Lewis (harpsichord)
Danish Radio Sinfonietta & Ars Nova Copenhagen, Adam Fischer
The Milan premiere of Lucio Silla, on Boxing Day 1772, was a near-fiasco: ham acting from the last-minute tenor and the prima donna in a sulk. But from the second performance Mozart's second... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2008, Editor's Choice
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Fischer gets his orchestra to play with fierce intensity, so that works which usually seem accomplished but conventional take on a fresh complexion. —
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The playing on the new Dacapo disc is admirably clean, flexible and responsive, both to the music and between the two players. —
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Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto, K87
Mathias Zachariassen (Mitridate), Henriette Bonde-Hansen (Aspasia), Maria Fontosh (Sifare), Kristina Hammarström (Farnace), Lisa Larsson (Ismene), Anders J. Dahlin (Marzio) & Richard Lewis (harpsichord)
Vocal Group Ars Nova & Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Adam Fischer
The new set possesses notable features...excellent modern-instrument orchestra, the graceful, versatile and touching Henrietta Bonde-Hansen as prima donna, and - greatest strength of all -... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2010, Disc of the Month
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Concertos from 19th-Century Denmark
Flemming Aksnes, Lisa Maria Cooper, Oliver Nordahl (oboe), Ian van Rensburg (violin), Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Jean Thorel
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Frederik IX Conducts the Royal Danish Orchestra & Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Royal Danish Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Frederik IX (King of Denmark)
The playing across the four discs is consistently tight and responsive … Attractively designed and well-annotated, this is an appealing release. —
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Special offer. Mozart: Idomeneo, K366
Christian Elsner (Idomeneo), Kristina Hammarström (Idamante), Henriette Bonde-Hansen (Ilia), Raffaella Milanesi (Elettra), Christoph Strehl (Arbace), Göran Eliasson (Nettuno) & Stephen Milling (La Voce)
Danish National Choir & The Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Adam Fischer
Fischer's vision of the opera is lean and muscular, with fleet-footed orchestral playing and strong, characterful soloists...Elsner captures the conflict raging within the Lear-like Idomeneo... —
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