BSO Recordings
-
Special offer. Korngold: Die tote Stadt
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Paul), Marlis Petersen (Marietta), Andrej Filonczyk (Frank/Fritz), Jennifer Johnston (Brigitta), Mirjam Mesak (Juliette), Corinna Scheurle (Lucienne), Manuel Günther (Gaston/Victorin), Dean Power (Graf Albert), Bayerische Staatsoper, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Stone (director)
There’s a depth and emotional intelligence to this staging that disarmed my initial resistance...on every level, a glorious achievement. —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2021
-
Opera, October 2021, Disc of the Month
-
Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Video Performance
-
Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Opera
-
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
-
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Recording of the Year
-
-
Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus
RecommendedDiana Damrau (Rosalinde), Georg Nigl (Eisenstein), Katharina Konradi (Adele), Andrew Watts (Orlofsky), Sean Panikkar (Alfred), Markus Brück (Dr Falke)
Bayerische Staatsoper, Vladimir Jurowski, Barrie Kosky
Right from the off, it just feels right. Kosky is in his element. Whatever your views on his approach to mainstream repertoire, few living directors have thought more carefully about Central... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2024
-
-
Petrenko has a way of hearing deep into textures and harmonies that is at times really quite startling. He gives us X-ray ears. —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
-
Gramophone Magazine, August 2021, Recording of the Month
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
-
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Orchestral
-
-
[Testament is] an evocative, powerful work, incisively played by the Bayerisches Staatsorchester under Vladimir Jurowski. Equally fresh in its impact, Symphony No. 2 is filled with vigorous... —
Awards:
-
Presto Editor's Choice, July 2022
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
-
-
Special offer. Korngold: Die tote Stadt
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Paul), Marlis Petersen (Marietta), Andrej Filonczyk (Frank/Fritz), Jennifer Johnston (Brigitta), Mirjam Mesak (Juliette), Corinna Scheurle (Lucienne), Manuel Günther (Gaston/Victorin), Dean Power (Graf Albert), Bayerische Staatsoper, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Stone (director)
There’s a depth and emotional intelligence to this staging that disarmed my initial resistance...on every level, a glorious achievement. —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2021
-
Opera, October 2021, Disc of the Month
-
Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
-
Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Opera
-
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
-
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Recording of the Year
-
-
Special offer. Hans Abrahamsen: The Snow Queen
Barbara Hannigan (Gerda), Rachael Wilson (Kay, Katarina Dalayman (Grandmother / Old Lady / Finn Woman), Peter Rose (Snow Queen / Reindeer / Clock)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Cornelius Meister, Andreas Kriegenburg
Kriegenburg’s production, cleanly shot by Christoph Engel, suggests it was all in the mind anyway. His is not a show for kids, even if Abrahamsen’s opera might be – getting close to Andersen’s... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Contemporary
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Video: Opera
-
-
Igor Stravinsky/Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Mavra/Iolanta
RecommendedMirjam Mesak (Iolanta), Long Long (Vaudémont), Boris Prýgl (Robert), Markus Suihkonen (King René), Oğulcan Yilmaz (Ibn-Hakia); Anna El-Khashem (Parasha), Freddie de Tommaso (Vassili), Noa Beinart (Mother/Marta)
Opernstudio der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Axel Ranisch,...
[Mesak] makes an entirely convincing Iolanta, poised between innocence and experience, and singing with blazing conviction opposite Long Long’s lyrically ardent Vaudémont. —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 16th December 2022
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Young Talent (Mesak & Ioffe)
-
-
Special offer. Prokofiev: War and Peace
Olga Kulchynska (Natasha), Andrei Zhilikhovsky (Andrei), Arsen Soghomonyan (Pierre), Violeta Urmana (Marya Dmitriyevna Akhrosimova), Olga Guryakova (Peronskaya), Bekhzod Davronov (Anatole), Christina Bock (Marya Bolkonskaya)
Bayerische Staatsoper, Vladimir Jurowski, Dmitri Tcherniakov
The video is definitely worth seeing. If you have a good knowledge of the opera already from a more standard version, you’ll appreciate the in-jokes, such as the decision to take Prokofiev’s... —
Awards:
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner - Video (Opera)
-
-
Special offer. Hans Abrahamsen: The Snow Queen
Barbara Hannigan (Gerda), Rachael Wilson (Kay, Katarina Dalayman (Grandmother / Old Lady / Finn Woman), Peter Rose (Snow Queen / Reindeer / Clock)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Cornelius Meister, Andreas Kriegenburg
Kriegenburg’s production, cleanly shot by Christoph Engel, suggests it was all in the mind anyway. His is not a show for kids, even if Abrahamsen’s opera might be – getting close to Andersen’s... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Contemporary
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Video: Opera
-
-
Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus
RecommendedDiana Damrau (Rosalinde), Georg Nigl (Eisenstein), Katharina Konradi (Adele), Andrew Watts (Orlofsky), Sean Panikkar (Alfred), Markus Brück (Dr Falke)
Bayerische Staatsoper, Vladimir Jurowski, Barrie Kosky
Right from the off, it just feels right. Kosky is in his element. Whatever your views on his approach to mainstream repertoire, few living directors have thought more carefully about Central... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2024
-
