SACD, Strauss, R (composer)
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Did Jurowski need to record the work again after his spectacular London Philharmonic Orchestra two-disc set?...The production here gives one good reason; the other is the pacing, never rushed... — More…
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Record Review, 14th August 2021, Record Review
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Conductor of the Year
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These militant, tightly controlled, sometimes breathtaking performances demand to be heard and may divide opinion. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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R. Strauss: Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration & Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Honeck's interpretations have huge personality, and mostly in the right way. He's not averse to Stokowski-style touchings-up if they help the drama...Honeck likes to underline something pathological... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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a virtuosic Cleveland Orchestra, with shrilling clarinets outstanding, responds brilliantly to Franz Welser-Möst’s justifiable hell-for-leather tour of the medieval prankster’s shortlived exploits...... — More…
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Record Review, 18th June 2022, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Spatial Audio
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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there's some attractive lighter music at the ballet's core: Jarvi, his woodwind - first flute especially - and solo strings make the most of it. Some of the somberness with which Potiphar's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th June 2013
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Richard Strauss: Symphonia Domestica & Die Tageszeiten
RecommendedRundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
those who don't know the least often heard of the symphonic poems should be amazed by Marek Janowski's sympathetic, detailed interpretation; but even Straussians don't often get to hear Die... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Orchestral Finalist
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra – Debussy: Jeux
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, François-Xavier Roth
As with his earlier recording [of Also sprach], Roth never loses sight of the work’s structure, tying everything together with the surest of touches, but this new account adds to that a new... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th March 2023
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A Simple Song Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Sharon Bezaly (flute), Fabian Fredriksson (electric guitar), Margareta Nilsson (harp), Bengt Forsberg (organ), Nils-Erik Sparf (violin), Marie McLeod (cello), Ellen Nisbeth (viola)
Von Otter’s generous personality is reflected in the way she puts over every item, with care for text and a honeyed sweetness of tone…Admirers of the singer will certainly want it; and, if you’re... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2018
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' & R. Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1 Pittsburgh Symphony/Honeck
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Richard Strauss: Suites from Elektra & Rosenkavalier Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
It’s all magnificently played, the slow-burn approach paying off when the Dionysiac release of Elektra’s death-dance finally bursts out of a leisurely peroration…great, terraced sound, too:... — More…
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