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Mahler - Guðnadóttir - Elgar
Hildur Guðnadóttir (vocals, cello, speaker), London Contemporary Orchestra (string quartet), Cate Blanchett (speaker, piano), Jan Wolf (speaker), Rachel Smith (speaker), Natalie Murray Beale (speaker), Sophie Kauer (speaker, cello), Todd Field (speaker), Al Kay (trombone), Jeroen Vierdag (double...
More a concept album than a traditional musical facsimile of the film, the result is both creative and curious. Hildur Guðnadóttir’s music lives within and without the film, and it rubs shoulders... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Composer of the Year
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
RecommendedCheryl Studer, Angela Maria Blasi, Sumi Jo, Waltraud Meier, Kazuko Nagai, Keith Lewis, Thomas Allen, Hans Sotin
Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Giuseppe Sinopoli
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Milhaud: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 and Suite provençale
RecommendedOrchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Richard Strauss
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Wiener Symphoniker, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Petr Popelka, Seiji Ozawa
The Vienna Symphony is luxurious in the Concerto, against which Capuçon’s poise and precision contrast beautifully. There’s a mournful simplicity to the Sonata and the Piano Quartet channels... —
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her performances are characteristically thoughtful – too much so for my liking.
Pires’s approach is more high Romantic than late Classical, constantly oscillating between loud and soft, fast... —Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Instrumental
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Building a Library, December 2017, First Choice
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Massenet: Werther
RecommendedRolando Villazon (Werther), Sophie Koch (Charlotte), Audun Iversen (Albert), Eri Nakamura (Sophie), Alain Vernhes (Le Bailli), Stuart Patterson (Schmidt), Darren Jeffrey (Johann), Anna Devin (Käthchen), Zhengzhong Zhou (Brühlmann)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,...
[Villazon] successfully negotiates the exposed or awkward passages. In the bigger singing of the third act...there's a touch of the old, devil-may-care Villazon...Even better is [Koch's Charlotte]...But... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th March 2012
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Opera
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Opera, July 2012, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2001, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Puccini: Tosca
Eleonora Buratto (Tosca), Jonathan Tetelman (Cavaradossi), Ludovic Tézier (Scarpia), Giorgi Manoshvili (Angelotti), Davide Giangregorio (Sagristano), Matteo Macchioni (Spoletta), Nicolò Ceriani (Sciarrone)
Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Daniel Harding
Buratto, who has sung Tosca just once before in Munich , emerges from this recording as an ideal interpreter of the title role, her voice full-bodied but never strident, eminently suited to... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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The American Project
RecommendedAbrams - Tilson Thomas
Yuja Wang (piano), Louisville Orchestra, Teddy Abrams
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Concerto
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Winner - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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