Browse: Violeta Urmana (soprano)
This page lists all recordings performed by Violeta Urmana.
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Wagner: Parsifal
RecommendedGary Lehman (Parsifal), Violeta Urmana (Kundry), René Pape (Gurnemanz), Evgeny Nikitin (Amfortas), Alexei Tano Vitski (Titurel) & Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor)
Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev
What really distinguishes this...is Gergiev. His reading is vivid and luminous, generally expansive but with fluidly shifting tempos, unashamedly guilty of theatrical excitement. Yet he evokes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th September 2010
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Editor's Choice
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Wagner: Love Duets
RecommendedPlácido Domingo, Deborah Voigt
Orchestra of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano
It appears that in 1862, three years before Tristanand Isolde's première, Wagner hoped that the Schnorrs, his original Tristan and Isolde, would give part of the Love duet in a concert performance.
This... — More…Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Wagner: Scenes from the Ring
Placido Domingo (tenor), David Cangelosi (Mime), Natalie Dessay (Waldvogel), Violeta Urmana (Brünnhilde)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2002, Editor's Choice
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Boulez Conducts Mahler
RecommendedComplete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon
Rainer Keuschnig (organ), Christine Schäfer (soprano) & Michelle Deyoung (mezzo-soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (contralto), Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Anna Larsson (contralto), Johan Botha (tenor), Juliane Banse, Twyla Robinson, Erin Wall, Adriane Queiroz, Michelle DeYoung, Simone Schröder,...
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Building a Library, June 2016, Also Recommended
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Grammy Awards, 46th Awards (2003), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building a Library, May 2023, Also Recommended
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Wagner: Siegfried
RecommendedTomasz Konieczny (Der Wanderer/Wotan), Stephen Gould (Siegfried), Violeta Urmana (Brünnhilde), Anna Larsson (Erda), Matti Salminen (Fafner), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Christian Elsner (Mime), Sophie Klußmann (Stimme eines Waldvogels)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
This is a lively and enjoyable performance of what Wagner called his 'heroic comedy'...listen to the short but dense Prelude and you'll hear many things that you won't have heard on any other... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Clifton Forbis, Violeta Urmana (soprano)
Orchestre National de Lille, Jean-Claude Casadesus
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
RecommendedKarita Mattila (soprano), Violeta Urmana (contralto), Thomas Moser (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (bass)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Eric-Ericson Chamber Choir, Claudio Abbado
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Building a Library, February 2002, First Choice
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Verdi: Requiem
Kristin Lewis (soprano), Violeta Urmana (mezzo-soprano), Piotr Beczala (tenor) & Ildar Abdrazakov (bass)
Choeurs de l'Opéra National de Paris & Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris, Philippe Jordan
at its best there's a heady, generous appeal to Urmana's heavy tone. More memorable is the commitment to text and expression from bass Ildar Abdrazakov, and tenor Piotr Beczala's technically... — More…
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
Salvatore Licitra (Manrico), Barbara Frittoli (Leonora), Leo Nucci (Conte di Luna), Violeta Urmana (Azucena), Giorgio Giuseppini (Ferrando), Tiziana Tramonti (Ines), Ernesto Gavazzi (Ruiz), Ernesto Panariello (Un vecchio zingaro), Francesco Biasi (Un messo)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala,...
Barbara Frittoli as Leonore [sic] is creamy-toned and Salvatore Licitra's Manrico lion-hearted — More…
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Beethoven: The Symphonies
Karita Mattila (soprano), Violeta Urmana (contralto), Thomas Moser (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (bass)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra & Eric-Ericson Chamber Choir, Claudio Abbado
One could say, briefly but not inaccurately, that this is the antithesis of Karajan. Where he was smooth, this is rugged. Where he went in for broad tempos in slow movements, Abbado moves things... — More…
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