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Boulez conducts Mahler & Berg
RecommendedDorothea Röschmann (soprano), Anna Larsson (contralto), Johan Botha (tenor), Anna Prohaska (soprano)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Pierre Boulez
The Vienna Philharmonic strings bring dewy beauty to the late-Romantic canvas [of the Mahler], but there's little Götterdämmerung-like wildness...Boulez is more assured in the Lulu Suite: irradiating... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th March 2013
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Displaying a brilliantly secure technique, the young Polish pianist is fully up to the challenges of these glittering pieces. He also feels the nostalgia and longing of the music, and hearing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Editor's Choice
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Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 2 & Wagner: Meistersinger Prelude
RecommendedGewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
I like Nelsons’s approach [in No. 8], and the orchestra is magnificent...The Leipzigers have the right kind of sound, but Nelsons seems uncertain how smoothly the music should flow, so though... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th February 2021
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Giordano, U: Fedora
Angela Gheorghiu (Fedora), Nino Machaidze (Olga Sukarev), Plácido Domingo (Loris Ipanov), Fabio Maria Capitanucci (De Siriex)
Orchestre symphonique et choers de la Monnaie, Alberto Veronesi
Domingo is simply phenomenal, given that he turned 67 the month the recording was made, sounding ardent if sometimes, not surprisingly, vocally pressed. There are fine performances in secondary... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Opera
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Building a Library, September 2004, First Choice
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Elgar: Violin Concerto & Chausson: Poème
RecommendedItzhak Perlman (Violin)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta
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Grammy Awards, 25th Awards (1982), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Grammy Awards, 54th Awards (2011), Best Orchestral Performance
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Messiaen: Concert à quatre
RecommendedCatherine Cantin, Heinz Holliger, Yvonne Loriod & Mstislav Rostropovich
Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
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Grammy Awards, 38th Awards (1995), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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This is an outstanding performance of Brahms's G minor Piano Quartet, unforgettable for its spontaneity and uninhibited Romantic warmth and verve. The booklet reminds us that this 1971 recording... —
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Building a Library, June 2001, First Choice
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Maurizio Pollini plays Prokofiev, Boulez, Webern and Stravinsky
RecommendedMaurizio Pollini (piano)
Perfection needs to be pursued so that you can forget about it. Pollini's Petrushka movements are almost inhumanly accurate and fast; but what comes across is an exhilarating sense of abandon,... —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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