Pentatone - up to 40% off
Until 21st August 2024, we are offering up to 40% off Pentatone titles, including CD, SACD, Vinyl and Downloads.
Pentatone, Rundfunkchor Berlin (choir)
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Albert Dohmen (Hans Sachs), Robert Dean Smith (Walther), Edith Haller (Eva), Dietrich Henschel (Beckmesser), Peter Sonn (David), Michelle Breedt (Magdalene), Georg Zeppenfeld (Pogner)
Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
[a good Meistersinger] should show teamwork among the soloists and a good balance between the conversational style of much of the singing and the grandeur of the orchestral accompaniment. On... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, Opera Choice
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Wagner: Parsifal RecommendedEvgeny Nikitin (Amfortas), Christian Elsner (Parsifal), Franz-Josef Selig (Gurnemanz), Michelle DeYoung (Kundry/Stimme aus der Hohe), Dimitry Ivaschenko (Titurel), Eike Wilm Schulte (Klingsor)
Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
It has spontaneity of something which has sunk so deeply into the performers' minds and souls that they can throw caution to the wind and still be accurate...Elsner is a wonderfully sensitive... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th March 2012
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Award for Technical Excellence
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Opera, August 2012, Recording of the Month
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer RecommendedAlbert Dohmen (Der Holländer), Ricarda Merbeth (Senta), Matti Salminen (Daland), Robert Dean Smith (Erik), Silvia Hablowetz (Mary), Steve Davislim (Steuermann)
Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
Janowski's conducting is crisp and fleet-footed, shaping the music naturally and fluently...[Dohmen] is a warm anti-hero, but too soft-grained to sound demonically desperate. Matti Salminen's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th September 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011, Editor's Choice
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Richard Strauss: Symphonia Domestica & Die Tageszeiten RecommendedRundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
those who don't know the least often heard of the symphonic poems should be amazed by Marek Janowski's sympathetic, detailed interpretation; but even Straussians don't often get to hear Die... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Orchestral Finalist
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Wagner: Lohengrin Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Annette Dasch (Elsa), Susanne Resmark (Ortrud), Gerd Grochowski (Friedrich von Telramund), Markus Brück (Der Heerrufer des Königs), Günther Groissböck (Heinrich der Vogler)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
Janowski has matured into the most reliably impressive Wagner conductor of our time...[Vogt] has a lovely voice, though it occasionally sounds thin; but he is expressive, intelligent and convincing.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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Puccini: Tosca Melody Moore (Tosca), Stefan Pop (Cavaradossi), Lester Lynch (Scarpia), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Carlo Montanaro
This is a performance high on drama, as all the best Toscas should be...Exchanges between the characters have a real sense of urgency and psychological tension, as all involved work hard to... — More…
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Offer, Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen Jochen Schmeckenbecher (baritone), Julia Borchert, Katharina Kammerloher, Kismara Pessatti, Tomas Konieczny, Ricarda Merbeth (soprano), Christian Elsner (tenor), Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano), Günther Groissböck (bass), Timo Riihonen, Kor-Jan Dusseljee, Antonio Yang, Andreas Conrad, Maria Radner...
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Bruckner: Mass No. 3 in F Minor, WAB 28 Lenneke Ruiten (soprano), Iris Vermillion (mezzo), Shawn Mathey (tenor), Franz Josef Selig (bass-baritone)
Swiss Romande Orchestra, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
despite the heaviness of the scoring and big block textures of much of the choral writing, Janowski achieves a lightness and transparency throughout...The greatest plaudit here goes to the bass,... — More…
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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 Camilla Tilling (soprano), Detlef Roth (baritone)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
the performance is both beautifully shaped (especially from the woodwinds) and devotional in spirit. The closing 'Selig sind die Toten' presents a warming richness of texture, the underlying... — More…
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Wagner: Tannhäuser Robert Dean Smith (Tannhäuser), Nina Stemme (Elisabeth), Marina Prudenskaya (Venus), Christian Gerhaher (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Peter Sonn (Walther von der Vogelweide), Albert Dohmen (Landgraf Hermann von Thüringen)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
Janowski keeps the score, which has some longueurs, moving and builds up impressive climaxes in each act...Prudenskaya, though her enunciation is vague, is adequately sexy...Stemme sound[s]... — More…
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