SACD, Strauss, R (composer)
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New. Richard Strauss: Elektra
RecommendedIréne Theorin (Elektra), Jennifer Holloway (Chrysothemis), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Klytemnestra), Nikolai Schukoff (Aegisth), Iain Paterson (Orest), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choirs, Edward Gardner
As in Salome, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra play wonderfully for Edward Gardner, who - again as in Salome - conducts the opera in one, long paragraph. The tension hardly lets up, even in... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th February 2026
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Special offer. Richard Strauss: Salome
Malin Byström (Salome), Johan Reuter (Jochanaan), Katarina Dalayman (Herodias), Gerhard Siegel (Herodes), Bror Magnus Tødenes (Narraboth), Hanna Hipp (Herodias's Page)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Strauss’s score remains one of the most astounding of all time, operatic and otherwise, and it’s a high achievement indeed that the Bergen Philharmonic’s playing under Edward Gardner, stunningly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2025, Recording of the Month
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International Opera Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Soirée
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (mezzo), Sir Simon Rattle (piano), Rahel Rilling (violin), Wolfram Brandl (violin), Yulia Deyneka (viola), David Adorjan (cello), Andrew Marriner (clarinet)
There is some lovely singing from Kožená, whose fawn-tinted mezzo retains its attractive quality from her earliest discs…She sings the two Brahms collections well, especially the Ophelia Songs,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th September 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Special offer. Metamorphosen
RecommendedStrauss - Korngold - Schreker
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
These militant, tightly controlled, sometimes breathtaking performances demand to be heard and may divide opinion. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Special offer. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (Alpine Symphony)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski
Did Jurowski need to record the work again after his spectacular London Philharmonic Orchestra two-disc set?...The production here gives one good reason; the other is the pacing, never rushed... —
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Record Review, 14th August 2021, Record Review
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Conductor of the Year
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this celebration of song is infused with heartfelt joy. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Song
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Strauss, R: Elektra
RecommendedJeanne-Michèle Charbonnet (Elektra), Angela Denoke (Chrysothemis), Dame Felicity Palmer (Clytemnestra), Matthias Goerne (Orestes), Ian Storey (Aegisthus)
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
[Gergiev] conveys passions and tensions with compelling, sometimes deafening power...[Charbonnet is] strongly involved without, thankfully, overplaying the weirdness...[Palmer's Klytaemnestra... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th July 2012
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Coming soon. German Opera Scenes and Arias
Malin Byström (soprano), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård
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A New Century
Orchestral Works by Beethoven, Varèse, Staud, R. Strauss, Deutsch & Prokofiev
Paul Jacobs (piano)
Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst
Overall, [the performances] paint a picture of sovereign technical command, with an upholstered warmth of tone not automatically in the DNA of American orchestras…the Cleveland Orchestra has... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, Recording of the Month
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a virtuosic Cleveland Orchestra, with shrilling clarinets outstanding, responds brilliantly to Franz Welser-Möst’s justifiable hell-for-leather tour of the medieval prankster’s shortlived exploits...... —
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Record Review, 18th June 2022, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Spatial Audio
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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