Teodor Currentzis
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There are passages here as phenomenal and white-hot as any I’ve heard in the Sixth Symphony: try the whiplash return to the hurly-burly after the high-pastures idyll at the centre of the first... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd November 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Editor's Choice
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The Introduction is entrancing...It’s pulsating, yet rhythmically crisp...Tam-tams in ‘The Dance of the Earth’ almost leap out from the speakers. It’s not all about power and speed...But when... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, July 2019, Also Recommended
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique'
RecommendedMusicaeterna, Teodor Currentzis
Currentzis has a clear and unified vision of the music’s trajectory, his interpretation grabbing you by the scruff of the neck…Most remarkable of all is the clarity of sound achieved here which... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th October 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017, Nouveauté
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2018, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, Recording of the month
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Orchestral
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedDimitris Tiliakos (Don Giovanni), Vito Priante (Leporello), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Donna Anna), Kenneth Tarver (Don Ottavio), Karina Gauvin (Donna Elvira), Guido Loconsolo (Masetto), Christina Gansch (Zerlina), Mika Kares (Il Commendatore)
MusicAeterna & MusicAeterna Choir, Teodor Currentzis
[this Don Giovanni] strips away many of our distorting performance habits, and the result is refreshing, revelatory and unsettling…Tiliakos is a dramatic Don…Loconsolo is vocally nimble and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th December 2016
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Opera Winner
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Piano Concertos
Alexander Melnikov (piano), with Isabelle Faust (violin), with Jeroen Berwaerts (trumpet)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis
his lightning switches of tempo and mood in the fast movement outdo most competitors for bizarrerie...Melnikov includes a searing, thrilling account of Shostakovich's late Violin Sonata, Op.... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2012, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, Orchestral Choice
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Throughout, rather than adopting a headlong interpretative profile, Currentzis inflects Beethoven’s indelible invention with an at times startling range of articulation that bristles with spontaneous... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto & Stravinsky: Les Noces
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Nadine Koutcher (soprano), Natalya Buklaga, Vasiliy Korostelev, Stanislav Leontieff, MusicAeterna
Teodor Currentzis
The force of personality, conviction and unanimity of intention with which the musical argument is projected completely bowled me over — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th January 2016
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In this most celebrated of symphonies the players sound at times as though they might explode with excitement. Where appropriate, they generate a rapier-like thrust that sweeps aside conventional... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
RecommendedSimone Kermes (Fiordiligi), Malena Ernman (Dorabella), Anna Kasyan (Despina), Kenneth Tarver (Ferrando), Christopher Maltman (Guglielmo), Konstantin Wolff (Don Alfonso)
MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis
There's an undeniably a strong sense of personality to everything the conductor does...Most notable of all is the interventionist nature of the continuo, with the fortepiano, in particular,... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
RecommendedFanie Antonelou (Susanna), Christian van Horn (Figaro), Simone Kermes (Countess), Andrei Bondarenko (Count), Mary-Ellen Nesi (Cherubino)
MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis
Currentzis’s cast has a character and blend of its own. A premium has been put on crackling recitative, deft vocalisation (limited vibrato) and dramatic truthfulness: the sense of ensemble is... — More…
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Building A Library, April 2022, Also Recommended
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