Orchestral, Symphonic Poems, Schoenberg (composer)
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[The Dutilleux] is played here with breathtaking brilliance...the performance of Verklärte Nacht is worth waiting for, its extraordinary attention to detail and clarity never achieved at the... — 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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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Chamber
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Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht & Variations for Orchestra RecommendedBerlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
The strings of the Berlin Philharmonic treat us to their most ravishingly expressive sound in this 1974 recording of Verklärte Nacht, heard here in Schoenberg's own version for string orchestra,... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Schoenberg: Transfigured Night & Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedAlisa Weilerstein (cello)
Trondheim Soloists
In performances of such freshness, verve and chamber transparency, the concept works...You’d go far to find performances of the Haydn concertos that match Alisa Weilerstein’s mix of stylistic... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th August 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Hollywood String Quartet play Schoenberg and Schubert
RecommendedAlvin Dinkin, Kurt Reher
The Hollywood String Quartet
This 1951 mono recording set the benchmark for many years, and so it probably did much to establish the current, questionable norms of tempo. But it's superb performance, played with skill... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, October 2007, Historic Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Historic non-vocal
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder RecommendedSiegfried Jerusalem, Susan Dunn, Brigitte Fassbaender, Hermann Becht, Peter Haage, Hans Hotter
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Städtischer Musikverein Düsseldorf, Riccardo Chailly
This vast cantata, a direct descendant of Wagnerian music-drama, was for the turn-of-the- century musical scene the ultimate gorgeous sunset. Schoenberg's forces are, to put it mildly, extravagant.... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2005, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2017, Also Recommended
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The Raphael Ensemble are superb in every respect; their performances have blazing commitment and integrity, and Hyperion's recording is in the demonstration category — More…
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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite & Schoenberg: Pelléas & Mélisande
RecommendedOrchestre de La Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott
Nott’s orchestral suite arranged from Debussy’s opera is both substantial and imaginatively devised... it is played here with a consistent loveliness that absorbs and appeals in its own right. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th November 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Verklärte Nacht
RecommendedSchoenberg - Fried - Lehár - Korngold
Christine Rice (mezzo), Stuart Skelton (tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Across the programme Edward Gardner is preternaturally attentive, nailing the volatile blend of schmaltz and suffering that underpins the Lehár; and cloaking the moonbathing opening of the Fried... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st January 2021
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Schoenberg: Violin Concerto & Verklärte Nacht
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
The secret of her success lies in her ability to bring an immense amount of poetry and fantasy to the immensely complex solo part…As a result, the listener gets drawn into the drama of the musical... — More…
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Record Review, 29th February 2020, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht & Pelleas und Melisande
RecommendedBerlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
This is a very distinguished coupling, superbly played by the BPO – a truly 'legendary' reissue, quite unsurpassed on record. Karajan never approached contemporary music with the innate radicalism... — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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