SACD, RCO Live (label)
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Honegger: Symphony No. 3
RecommendedLuba Orgonásová (soprano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Netherlands Radio Choir, Mariss Jansons
The Netherlands Radio Choir is impressively well-drilled… The Slovakian soprano Luba Orgonásová soars majestically over the whole, alternately creating serenity and high drama as required.... —
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Building a Library, March 2008, First Choice
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Building a Library, November 2010, First Choice
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Building a Library, February 2020, Recommended Recording
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Violin Concerto & Schumann: Piano Quartet
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Emanuel Ax (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, RCO Chamber Soloists, Bernard Haitink
A born Brahmsian, Ax gives full rein to the sheer massiveness of the First Piano Concerto, producing a performance of range and depth, intimately captured in this recording…the estimable Frank... —
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Haitink's supreme control of pacing [in the slow movement] ensures that all the pregnant silences in the music are imbued with a real sense of anxiety...Likewise Haitink's slow tempo in the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, Orchestral Choice
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Horizon 2: A Tribute To Olivier Messiaen
Recorded live at Concertgebouw Amsterdam on 8, 9 November 2007 (Dukas/Van Keulen, Dalbavie, Messiaen, and 13, 14 June 2008 (Zuidam)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, George Benjamin & Ingo Metzmacher
These masterly performances under the baton of George Benjamin here provide the focus of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's inventive tribute to the composer, captured live at concerts during... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2010, Editor's Choice
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Berlioz: Requiem
Javier Camarena (tenor), Chorus Santa Cecilia, Concertgebouworkest, Antonio Pappano
One could go on about the beauties and musical virtues of this release, but suffice to say that it is by far the best Berlioz Requiem in years. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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Dvorak - Requiem & Symphony No. 8
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Mihoko Fujimura (alto), Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor) & Thomas Quasthoff (bass)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, with Vienna Singverein, Mariss Jansons
[Jansons] clearly understands the dynamics of this strongly unified work and nearly everywhere his tempos are well judged. He is also very well served by superb choral singing and orchestral... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, Editor's Choice
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (chief conductor)
There's plenty of character, and deft woodwind adept as fast-moving Parisian kids and squabbling chicks. —
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Camilla Nylund (Elsa), Katarina Dalayman (Ortrud), Evgeny Nikitin (Friedrich von Telramund), Falk Struckmann (Heinrich der Vogler)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, Dutch National Opera Chorus, Mark Elder
This is in some ways the finest modern recording of Lohengrin, in the first place on account of Sir Mark Elder’s superbly detailed, passionate and large-scale conducting of the Royal Concertgebouw... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Record Review, 6th May 2017, Recording of the Week
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A detailed account. —
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Wagner: Parsifal Prelude & Good Friday Spell & Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
Royal ConcertgebouwOrchestra, Daniele Gatti
