Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
RecommendedBarbara Haveman (soprano), Claudia Mahnke (mezzo), Brandon Jovanovich (tenor), Gerhard Siegel (tenor), Thomas Bauer (baritone), Johannes Martin Kränzle (speaker)
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Domkantorei Köln, Männerstimmen des Kölner Domchores, Vokalensemble Kölner Dom, Chor des Bach-Vereins Köln,...
makes a vivid and spacious overall impression thanks to the alternately measured and passionate sway of Markus Stenz and the golden tones of the Gurzenich Orchestra. It is also strongly cast... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th June 2015
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Choral
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He’s far from the first to do so, but Roth makes the once-heretical case, through judicious observance of the score and an acute ear for sonority, that Schumann knew what he was doing… The slimmer... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2020, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Roth chooses the Fourth’s lessperformed original version. Missing in action is the famous ‘hunting horn’ Scherzo: its predecessor is less cohesive and exciting. The first movement trades the... — More…
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Record Review, 15th April 2023, Record of the Week
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Freire's sheer love of music, and of this music, is positively incandescent...This is playing of exceptional virility, entirely untainted by machismo posturing or narcissistic display. Chopin... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, Instrumental Choice
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Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
Olessa Golovneva (Iolanta), Alexander Vinogradov (René), Andrei Bondarenko (Robert), Dmytro Popov (Vaudémont), Vladislav Sulimsky (Ibn-Hakia), John Heuzenroeder (Alméric), Marc-Olivier Oetterli (Bertrand), Dalia Schaechter (Marta), Justyna Samborska, Marta Wryk (Laura)
Gürzenich Orchestra of...
as a young innocent, Golovneva's Iolanta is preferable to the fuller, darker soprano of Netrebko…Vinogradov's soft-grained bass is rock-solid and on magnificent form…Popov is in mellifluous,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2015, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Opera
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Roth’s interpretation leans more towards the 18th than the 19th century. There are clear gains. The sense of steady flow is gently but firmly compelling, while the lighter touch, especially... — More…
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Hard to believe that Mahler didn’t pilfer most of the ideas from the Scherzo of Rott’s beautifully orchestrated Symphony No. 1. This second volume continues a great introduction to an overlooked... — More…
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Mahler meets Hollywood meets Wagner. Hans Rott was a fine orchestrator – the concluding Pastoral Prelude should be heard more for its rollicking fugue alone. — More…
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Richard Strauss: Don Quixote & Till Eulenspiegel
RecommendedTabea Zimmermann (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, François-Xavier Roth
Queyras's subtlety is peerless in Quixote’s melancholy nocturnal vigil…Roth’s Till Eulenspiegel is among the very liveliest…there’s wonderful woodwind character as Till skips alongside the pedants,... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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