Browse: Seattle Symphony Orchestra (orchestra)
This page lists all recordings performed by Seattle Symphony Orchestra.
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Aaron Jay Kernis & James Newton Howard: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano)
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot, Cristian Măcelaru
This disc showcases three commissions aimed squarely at the Canadian virtuoso’s dazzling skillset. At the centre is a concerto by James Newton Howard…The work is lyrical, wildly cavorting and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Concerto Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Classical Instrumental Solo
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Contemporary Classical Composition
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American Classics - Walter Piston
RecommendedTherese Elder Wunrow (harp)
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
Those unfamiliar with Piston's work should investigate this Naxos disc that repackages performances originally issued on Delos. This one is arguably the best of the lot as it features the Fourth... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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a wondrous and tumultuous single-movement work for large orchestra that affirms music's capacity to shift our very state of being...The work combines great formal simplicity...with an almost... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, Orchestral Choice
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Grammy Awards, 57th Awards (2014), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Here, by an exceptional command of long-term tempo relationships Dausgaard manages to unify the symphony into single whole. Without loss of intensity, it emerges as not only a psychological document... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2016, Disc of the Month
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Dutilleux: Métaboles, L'arbre des songes & Symphony No. 2 'Le double'
RecommendedAugustin Hadelich (violin)
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot
The highlight of this Seattle disc is undoubtedly the violin playing of Augustin Hadelich in L'arbre des songes…the warm recording, with some three seconds of echo, suits this work well, as it... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Orchestral
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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[the Second Symphony's] usually leonine, masculine profile is lightly feminised here...but how the melodies flow, with characterful contributions from first clarinet and horn...Schwarz's players... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, Orchestral Choice
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Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
RecommendedEstelí Gomez (soprano), John Taylor Ward (baritone)
Thomas Dausgaard
this is a wonderful addition to the catalog. Exceptional music, exceptionally well recorded, and exceptionally played by a fine
American orchestra led by a conductor who clearly has this repertoire... — More…Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Orchestral Performance
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The Goldmark is a tuneful and warm-hearted concerto that needs just this kind of songful, inspirational approach: Hu shapes the melodies so that they ravishingly take wing and soar. — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, Trv 176 - Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54 (Live)
RecommendedSeattle Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard
Both [works] need this wide soundscape and the art that conceals art for the details in a clear, broad picture. We still get the timbres of woodwind and harps adding their splashes of colour;... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, Orchestral Choice
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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Speed requires confidence, and you can feel the Seattle Symphony’s building with this further exploration of what remains an alien aesthetic to so many orchestras. More to the point, Nielsen’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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