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Beethoven: Symphony No. 6; Steven Stucky: Silent Spring RecommendedPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
The energy in the Peasants’ Merrymaking and Storm is fiercely controlled, and the final Thanksgiving, if also on the fast side, moves steadily towards its conclusion, with colourful sonorities... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2022, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Engineered Album, Classical
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Beethoven Révolution Vol. II
RecommendedSymphonies 6 to 9
Sara Gouzy (soprano), Salome Fischer (alto), Mingjie Lei (tenor), Manuel Walser (baritone), Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Nacional de Catalunya, Jordi Savall
The performances were evolved over a series of ‘academies’ interrogating every aspect of the score. His interpretive decisions nonetheless feel organic rather than didactic…the finale of the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Building a Library, December 2022, Also Recommended - Beethoven 9
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' & Coriolan Overture Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
this is generally a fine and well-recorded performance, with a welcome degree of expressive flexibility in such moments as the opening movement’s gentle second subject. — More…
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Beethoven: Symphony No.9 RecommendedChristina Landshamer (soprano), Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano), Werner Güra (tenor), Shenyang (bass-baritone), Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
In terms of sound and precision, the performance is meticulous, immaculate and even. That’s not to say that Honeck doesn't occasionally play a little loose…Everything about this performance... — More…
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Record Review, 27th March 2021, Record of the Week
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
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Beethoven: The Complete Piano Concertos Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Sir Donald Runnicles
…These are my type of performances—full-bodied-sounding modern instruments in up-tempo, sharply defined readings set in perfect balance between piano and orchestra. No detail—be it tempo indication,... — More…
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Record Review, 20th May 2023, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 RecommendedAnn-Helen Moen (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo), Allan Clayton (tenor), Neal Davies (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
This marvelous performance is reproduced in superb, lifelike sound, full of impact but without any sense of artificial enhancement. Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan have given us... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Vänskä's Eroica comes to us primed for battle - an energetic, resilient, well drilled performance with surfaces of polished steel. …the playing of the Minnesota Orchestra 'Al' in all departments. — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 RecommendedLive at Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Germany, 7/29/1951
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Elisabeth Höngen (alto), Hans Hopf (tenor), Otto Edelmann (bass), Festspielorchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wilhelm Furtwängler
Nothing else in the realms of recorded music is quite like it and I would urge you to share the experience...I’m not claiming that this performance will suit every mood or even every taste,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Historical
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Building a Library, December 2022, Historic Recording
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Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies
Camilla Tilling (soprano), Kelley O'Connor (mezzo), Issachah Savage (tenor), Ryan McKinny (bass-baritone), National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center, Gianandrea Noseda
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