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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Júlia Várady, Jane Eaglen, Susan Bullock (sopranos), Trudeliese Schmidt, Jadwiga Rappé (mezzo soprano), Kenneth Riegel (tenor), Eike Wilm Schulte (baritone) & Hans Sotin (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, London Symphony Chorus & Eton College Boys’ Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
Even in the hour-long second movement, Tennstedt sustains such a high level of concentration and intensity that the attention is riveted throughout, culminating in a ecstatic peroration that... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Adriana Kucerová (soprano) & Christianne Stotijn (mezzo soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Vladimir Jurowski
The interlude-minuet of bygone days is deliberately nuanced, like much else here. Then Jurowski pulls off his finest feat of tonal novelty in a hyper-modern scherzo...[Stotijn], Kucerová and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Disc of the Month
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London choral singing has been among the best in the world. Here it is transcendent. No tempo is too fast, no dynamics too challenging, no high notes too fearsome—the two choruses sail though... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 18th December 2021, Record of the Week
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedYvonne Kenny (soprano) & Jard Van Nes (mezzo soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & London Philharmonic Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
there are fine things: the focused, weighty playing; the charm of the childlike moments, the mighty storm that blows through the gentle pastures of the second movement, and some suitably hard-hitting... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
Christine Brewer (soprano), Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor) & Gerald Finley (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir & Tiffin Boys’ Choir, Kurt Masur & Neville Creed (chamber orchestra)
arguably the finest trio of soloists since the original performance under the composer...Christine Brewer, Gerald Finley, and Anthony Dean Griffey are all superb in their clean focus, pure and... — More…
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Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, Hob XX/2 (Choral version)
Lisa Milne (soprano), Ruxandra Donose (mezzo soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor) & Christopher Maltman (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Vladimir Jurowski
[Jurowski shows] a vital sense of motion in presenting this music - an essential challenge, given its predominant slowness - as well as pointing up the work's intensity and revealing its inner... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Choral
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Haydn: The Creation
(sung in German)
Lucia Popp (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
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Jurowski conducts Stravinsky, Vol. 3 Angharad Lyddon, Sam Furness, Matthew Rose (bass), Elizabeth Atherton, Maria Ostroukhova, Joel Williams, Theodore Platt, Joshua Bloom, Maxim Mikhaliov, Maxim Mikhailov
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Vladimir Jurowski
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Honegger: Pastorale d’été, Symphony No. 4 & Une Cantate de Noël
RecommendedChristopher Maltman (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir & New London Children’s Choir, Vladimir Jurowski
Pleasing performances of some pleasing and unfamiliar music. Recommended to beachcombers (and anyone else who's curious). — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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Dvořák: Requiem, Op. 89
Lisa Milne (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo soprano), Peter Auty (tenor) & Peter Rose (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Neeme Järvi
All the virtues of Järvi's approach come together… in the Agnus Dei: beautifully paced and crafted, the performance captures superbly the radiance of Dvorák's vision of the hereafter. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2010, Editor's Choice
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