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Mozart: Die Singspiele (The Magic Flute & The Abduction from the Seraglio) RecommendedAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs, RIAS Kammerchor
This is a total experience, perfectly tailored for private listening. René Jacobs thinks of it as a Hörspiel: it's a play to be heard - I don't know a recorded Zauberflöte more thrillingly alive... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th September 2010
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Building a Library, November 2010, Recommended Recording (Die Zauberflöte)
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year (Die Zauberflöte)
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Opera (Die Zauberflöte)
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Opera Choice (Die Zauberflöte)
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year (Die Zauberflöte)
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Editor's Choice (Die Zauberflöte)
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015, (Die Entführung)
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Winner - Opera (Die Zauberflöte)
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Weber: Der Freischütz
RecommendedMaximilian Schmitt (Max), Polina Pasztircsák (Agathe), Kateryna Kasper (Ännchen), Dimitry Ivashchenko (Kaspar), Yannick Debus (Kilian), Matthias Winckhler (Kuno), Christian Immler (Hermit), Max Urlacher (Samiel)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, René Jacobs
If it all convinces that’s because Jacobs has an absolute instinct for Weber’s score. The horns of the Freiburger Barockorchester are almost a character in their own right in this Romantic opera... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th April 2022
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Record Review, 29th April 2022, Record of the Week
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Opera, July 2022, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Opera
2 CDs
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
RecommendedSophie Karthäuser (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor, Johannes Weisser (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Choir members are the virtuosos here. Their flexibility enables them to enrich or bleach vocal colour, and flood or dry up volume levels, to the subtlest degree. Jacobs plays the choir like... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd November 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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Bach: Johannes-Passion, BWV 245
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Robin Tritschler, Krešimir Stražanac, Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Stephan Gähler, Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Philipp Kaven, Magdalena Podkościelna, Peter Kooij (bass)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Herreweghe’s unswerving focus is evident from the opening chorus, whose elemental summons is exactingly calibrated, dark-grained and resolute…Schmitt’s Evangelist narrates with exemplary pacing... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 22nd February 2020, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Beethoven: Leonore
RecommendedMarlis Petersen (Leonore), Maximilian Schmitt (Florestan), Dimitry Ivashchenko (Rocco), Johannes Weisser (Pizarro), Robin Johannsen (Marzelline), Johannes Chum (Jaqino), Tareq Nazmi (Don Fernando), Florian Feth, Julian Popken (Two Prisoners)
Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
Of the principals only Johannes Weisser’s Don Pizarro disappoints, and even he is strong in the dialogue. Jacobs’s tempos are fast – sometimes a bit skittishly so – and the sublimity one looks... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Record Review, 7th December 2019, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th December 2019
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Opera, March 2020, Disc of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Petersen)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Beethoven: Messe C-Dur & Leonore Overture
Genia Kühmeier (soprano), Gerhild Romberger (alto), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Luca Pisaroni (bass-baritone), Symphonie-Orchester und Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
Thrilling playing and solid singing from a reliable crack team – the superb recorded sound brings Beethoven’s liturgical work to almost operatic life. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2018
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Haydn: The Seasons, Hob.XXI:3
RecommendedChristina Landshamer (soprano), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone)
Collegium Vocale Gent & Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, Philippe Herreweghe
With a first-rate trio of soloists, the accomplished Collegium Vocale Gent and the period sonorities of the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, the results are thoroughly satisfying. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Choral
2 CDs
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Haydn: Die Schöpfung
RecommendedAnna Lucia Richter (soprano), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone), Il Giardino Armonico, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Giovanni Antonini
Antonini has a fine line-up of soloists, and they clearly enjoy themselves: the soprano Anna Lucia Richter and the tenor Maximilian Schmidt both have attractively light-toned voices, and Richter’s... — More…
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Choral
2 CDs
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Regula Mühlemann (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Thomas E. Bauer (bass); Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini
His long-gestated and unsung Beethoven cycle culminates in a properly explosive, rhythmically charged Ninth…Antonini grasps that profound feeling can’t be sought or summoned in this music…If... — More…
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Romantische Arien
Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Daniel Harding
Gerhaher's Wolfram has followers travelling all over Europe in its wake, so uniquely moving, honest and profound is his response to Wagner's role...[the Wolfram arias] display that simple integrity... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, Opera Choice
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Opera, February 2013, Recording of the Month
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