Deutsche Grammophon
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Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621
RecommendedRolando Villazón (Tito), Marina Rebeka (Vitellia), Joyce DiDonato (Sesto), Tara Erraught (Annio), Regula Mühlemann (Servilia), Adam Plachetka (Publio)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, RIAS Kammerchor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Apart from her gorgeous voice, DiDonato possesses a grace perfect for the role, soaring to expressive heights in her final six-minute aria…Marina Rebeka is DiDonato’s ideal vocal and dramatic... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th July 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Opera Choice
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Bernstein conveys the harrowing wartime narrative of the Leningrad with overwhelming emotional power, dispelling any lingering doubts about the greatness of Shostakovich's work. Recorded 20... —
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Grammy Awards, 33rd Awards (1990), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building A Library, December 2021, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: Rigoletto
RecommendedLuciano Pavarotti (Il Duca), Vladimir Chernov (Rigoletto), Cheryl Studer (Gilda), Roberto Scandiuzzi (Sparafucile), Denyce Graves (Maddalena), Jane Shaulis (Giovanna), Ildebrando d' Arcangelo (Monterone), Dwayne Croft (Marullo), Paul Groves (Borsa), Yanni Yannissis (Il Conte di Ceprano), Heidi Grant...
Levine conducts a thrustful, exceptionally high-powered reading of Rigoletto, vividly dramatic. The sound is full and immediate...Chernov is a firm, clear, virile Rigoletto...Studer is a tenderly... —
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Building a Library, June 2013, First Choice
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Saariaho: Adriana Mater
RecommendedFleur Barron (Adriana), Axelle Fanyo (Refka), Nicholas Phan (Yonas), Christopher Purves (Tsargo)
San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Saariaho puts text first and the singers respond, but articulation from the San Francisco Symphony, which has to muster such depths from rumbling percussion to solos from E flat clarinet and... —
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Winner - Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn & Symphony No. 10 (Adagio)
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano) & Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
The musical future is thrillingly present in this searing live performance...Gerhaher and Boulez together explore and recreate that fragile warmth of nostalgia. The lithe, toned muscle of both... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Disc of the month
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Everything here (not least the filmic arrangements) is overheated in the best sense…Her sheer joy in choosing and singing this repertoire is tangible. A holiday romance it may be, but enjoy... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Female Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms
RecommendedBerliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Pierre Boulez
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Building a Library, November 2019, Also Recommended
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Building A Library, May 2022, Also Recommended
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Karajan recorded the Fourth Symphony three times, once in the 1950s with the Philharmonia and twice with the Berlin Philharmonic. The work obviously meant a great deal to him. He insisted on... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Coming soon. This Will Be Us
Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robert Ames
