SACD, Penderecki (composer)
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This is sensational!...at no point in the programme do you feel that the technical and intellectual demands are in any way compromising her interpretations, which are wholly excellent. —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Penderecki: St Luke Passion
Lucas Meachem (baritone), Slawomir Holland (narrator), Sarah Wegener (soprano), Matthew Rose (bass), Warsaw Boys Choir, Kraków Philharmonic Chorus, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano
Nagano’s soloists are uniformly excellent and his choral singers exceptional in their unfailing commitment. A definitive recording of a modern masterpiece. —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Juno Awards, 2021, Nominated - Classical Album of the Year (Large Ensemble)
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Penderecki - Violin & Horn Concertos
Robert Kabara (violin), Radovan Vlatkovic (horn)
Sinfonietta Cracovia, Krzysztof Penderecki
Robert Kabara has the full measure of the solo part's mercurial character as well as of its technical demands, and the recording is robustly well centred, neither swamping the soloist nor unduly... —
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Heupel’s interpretation of [Penderecki’s Per Slava] is especially convincing, laying bare the music’s fissured surfaces while maintaining its overall formal shape…He also manages to capture... —
