SACD, Schnittke (composer)
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Even by their standards, the choir are on blindingly good form in Schnittke’s monumental Choir Concerto. —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Choral Performance
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Musique chorale
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Choral
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Alfred Schnittke & Arvo Pärt: Choral Works
RecommendedRaul Mikson (tenor), Maria Melaha (soprano), Karolina Kriis (soprano), Marianne Pärna (alto), Ave Hännikäinen (alto), Toomas Tohert (tenor), Kaia Urb (soprano)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
The performance by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Kaspars Putiniņš is really impressive with a particularly rich and sonorous bass sound that is absolutely tailor- made for this... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Choral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Tchaikovsky & Babajanian: Piano Trios
RecommendedVadim Gluzman (violin), Johannes Moser (cello), Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
Tchaikovsky disliked the trio as a genre but choosing it for his memorial to Nikolay Rubinstein solved his need for a work of major heft yet intimate reflection. What I like about this beautifully... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Diapason d’Or, March 2020, Nouveauté
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Special offer. Schnittke: Symphony No. 3
RecommendedRundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski
It’s the willingness to embrace [Schnittke's] eclectic mix that for me is the success of this recording; although frequently baffled and staggered at the constant shifts from one idea to the... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Nicolas Stavy renders this music with an emotional acuity and technical finesse evident from his Tishchenko (10/15), Fauré (3/19) and Haydn (9/19). —
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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. —
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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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Beethoven & Schnittke: Violin Concertos
Vadim Gluzman (violin), Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, James Gaffigan
the performance [of the Schnittke] is extremely fine. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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Shostakovich & Schnittke - Piano Trios
Kempf Trio: Freddy Kempf (piano), Pierre Bensaid (violin) & Alexander Chaushian (cello)
Good recordings of Shostakovich's brilliant, tragic Second Piano Trio are already abundant… but this new… version… is one of the best. The bleak, vertiginously - spaced textures of the opening... —
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Schnittke: Concerto For Piano and Strings & Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2
Yefim Bronfman (piano), Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst
In live performance you might want more drive in the first movement of Prokofiev Two, but excellent recorded balance allows one to absorb the tone-colours of America’s best brass and all the... —
