SACD, Dacapo (label)
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Nielsen: The Symphonies & Concertos
RecommendedErin Morley (soprano) & Joshua Hopkins (baritone), Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Robert Langevin (flute), Anthony McGill (clarinet)
New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th June 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Oramo and the Vienna Philharmonic [take] on two contrasted works by Rued Langgaard that illuminate this composer in all his stylistic diversity and recklessness...Such an idiom should be in... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Orchestral
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The premiere recording of Nørgård’s latest symphony is a rewarding listen, the Vienna Philharmonic bringing their perfection to his fascinating and attractive sound world. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th June 2014
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Contemporary
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The sounds Abrahamsen craves, white and translucent across a large range of actual expression, hugely complex on the page but delectably simple to the ear, are exceptionally realised and recorded... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Contemporary
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Sorensen achieves a convincing transition between the two styles, using the plainchant as a kind of mediation...Sorensen specifies the positioning of the choir and individual voices: the outstanding... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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It’s a fervently committed reading, ablaze with radiant conviction and surging passions. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Orchestral
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Nielsen: The Mother
RecommendedPalle Knudsen (baritone), Lovisa Wennesz (harp), Rune Most, Christine Nonbo Andersen (voice), Rasmus Gravers Nielsen (voice), Steffen Bruun (voice), Rikke Lender (voice), Malene Nordtorp (voice), Rafaell Altino (viola), Adam Riis, Ole Bartholin Kiilerich (piano), Eugen Tichindeleanu (violin), Jovana...
tenor Adam Riis has the most tuneful numbers, but baritone Palle Knudsen steals the show as the Fool, with his cynical songs. The Odense Symphony Orchestra, “one of Denmark’s five regional orchestras”... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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There’s something almost miraculous about the way Finnish conductor John Storgards has brought this music so finely and compellingly into focus…[in the Second] all is ghostly detached sounds,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Anders Koppel: String Quartets and Mezzo-Saxophone Quintet
with Benjamin Koppel (mezzo-saxophone)
Sjælland String Quartet
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[Vox Reportage] can seem uncomfortably close to a virtuoso demonstration of the manifold noises top chamber choirs are capable of creating nowadays…It left me a little unsettled and enervated,... —
