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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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2010, Editor's Choice
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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... — More…
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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. — More…
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Building a Library, March 2017, Also Recommended
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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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2016, Orchestral 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 — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2012, Editor's 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. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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Dohnányi is a conductor whose interpretations bypass surface appeal and instead go straight to the music itself — More…
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Repeatedly things catch the ear and impress with their rightness. The abrupt, non-transition back to the main theme in the first movement comes as the kind of jolt Mahler surely had in mind.... — More…
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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... — More…
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Salonen calcuates every detail prudently...But when I say Salonen calculates every detail that's not the same as being 'calculating', and his performance is purposeful and revealing. — More…
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