Deutsche Grammophon
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much of the performance is magical and the tender, warmly cosseting string sound of the Staatskapelle Berlin is of truly vintage quality...The Scherzo is suitably rustic and only in the finale... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th May 2012
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Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major 'Titan', etc.
RecommendedThomas Hampson
Wiener Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein
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Building a Library, July 2003, First Choice
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Building a Library, January 2002, Runner-Up
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Building a Library, April 2017, Historic Choice
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Taken as a whole, it’s a painterly exercise in crafting contrasting moods and in shaping emotional immediacy...Muscular and mesmerising playing makes for a rewardingly satisfying listen. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year
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The four movements [of Glass's American Four Seasons] are interspersed with a prelude and three short 'songs' for solo violin, which bring further textural variety to the party, thrown with... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Building a Library, June 2008, First Choice
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Strauss, R: Salome
Bryn Terfel (Jokanaan), Cheryl Studer (Salome), Leonie Rysanek (Herodias), Horst Hiestermann (Herodes), Clemens Bieber (Narraboth), Marianne Rørholm (Ein Page)
Berlin Opera Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli
Strauss's setting of a German translation of Oscar Wilde's play is original and erotically explicit. It caused a sensation in its day and even now stimulates controversy. Sinopoli's recording... —
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Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 'Organ Symphony', etc.
RecommendedSimon Preston (organ)
Berlin Philharmonic, James Levine
If having the organ and orchestra recorded separately does not bother you, allow yourself to be seduced by James Levine and Simon Preston's sensual and at times theatrical reading. —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Beethoven: Egmont, Wellington's Victory & Military Marches
RecommendedBerlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble, Herbert von Karajan
I won't claim that Wellington's Victory is Beethoven's greatest composition ever, but Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic give the piece just the right amount of knowing tongue-in-cheek,... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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