Philharmonia Orchestra
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They are superb performances, with plenty of electricity and sense of occasion, well deserving the enthusiastic audience applause. The sublime and tragic Larghetto of No. 2 in particular is... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2010, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48, Op. 11
Sir John Tomlinson (Bluebeard), Michelle DeYoung (Judith) & Juliet Stevenson (narrator)
Philharmonia Orchestra & Philharmonia Voices, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Salonen conducts a taut, luxuriant reading that captures the score’s majesty and mystery. John Tomlinson’s Bluebeard makes up in histrionic heft what he has lost in vocal poise, but is overshadowed... —
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Opera, June 2014, Recording of the Month
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
RecommendedStig Andersen (Waldemar), Andreas Conrad (Klaus-Narr), Soile Isokoski (Tove), Monica Groop (Waldtaube), Ralf Lukas (Bauer) & Barbara Sukowa (Sprecher)
Philharmonia Voices, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & The Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
…exciting, lucid, wonderfully well-proportioned, and recorded in stunning sound the final hymn to the rising sun would lift the most morbidly lethargist out of their chair. —
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Building a Library, March 2017, Also Recommended
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Given Ashkenazy’s grand old man status, souvenir hunters won’t cavil at his occasional subjective moves…Ashkenazy ensures that the (deliberately?) episodic finale of the Third Symphony retains... —
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Perhaps the most satisfying of all [Ashkenazy’s recordings of the Symphony]…Perhaps the real strength of Ashkenazy’s interpretation lies not so much in its deeply felt emotional intensity, but... —
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Dohnányi realises all aspects of this extraordinary work, both its gaunt grandeur…and its warmth and fragility…the sublime third movement has everything, including that terrifying last climax,... —
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Christoph von Dohnanyi is a conductor who seems to work in black and white rather than in colour. True to form, these live performances are about subtle shading and unexaggerated, probing thoughtfulness,... —
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Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great'
Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi
this performance…goes for broke and succeeds, to the evident rapture of the audience. The Philharmonia is up to all Dohnányi’s and Schubert’s steep demands, and I was left with a feeling of... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2016, Orchestral Choice
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique' & Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
The symphony's first movement, especially, reaches a level of intensity that's seriously frightening, with astonishing virtuoso firepower from every corner of the orchestra. —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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The Royal Festival Hall perhaps doesn't offer the kind of spacious acoustic most suited to Bruckner's orchestration...Nonetheless, this is a largely enjoyable performance —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2012, Editor's Choice
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