Szymanowski - Stabat Mater, Op. 53
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Szymanowski - Choral Works
Elzbieta Szmytka, Florence Quivar, John Connell & Jon Garrison
CBSO Chorus & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Three of Szymanowski's most important works show Rattle's ability to energise music in which he believes. Sensuality and cogency blend in refined sound. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Engineering
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Szymanowski: Concertos, Orchestral & Choral Works
RecommendedIwona Sobotka, Timothy Robinson, Katarina Karnéus, Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Elzbieta Szmytka, Jadwiga Rappé, Philip Langridge & Thomas Hampson, Florence Quivar, Jon Garrison & John Connell
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, with City of Birmingham...
Both these differing works [Song of the Night and Stabat Mater] are sensitively performed, giving the listener an excellent insight into the contrasting aspects of this composer's work. Rattle's... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Engineering
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Szymanowski: Stabat Mater, Op. 53, etc.
Elzbieta Szmytka, Florence Quivar, Jon Garrison, John Connell
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle
The first impression here is that Rattle is relatively new to Szymanowski. There's a huge enthusiasm here, a missionary quality that bespeaks the recent convert. On the other hand the care over... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Engineering
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Szymanowski: Stabat Mater & Harnasie
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) & Gabor Bretz (baritone), Robert Murray (tenor)
BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Once again, Edward Gardner shows that he excels in Szymanowski's rich orchestral tapestries. This performance mixes wild mystery with coruscating brilliance, somehow managing - despite being... — More…
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Szymanowski: Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 & Stabat Mater
Toby Spence (tenor), Denis Matsuev (piano), Sally Matthews (soprano), Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo) & Kostas Smoriginas (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, with London Symphony Chorus, Valery Gergiev
Matsuev has his feet...firmly planted on terra firma, the edgier writing displaying more of a kinship with Bartok until the gorgeous return to lushness in the second movement suggests an almost... — More…
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Szymanowski - Stabat Mater
Iwona Hossa (soprano), Ewa Marciniec (mezzo-soprano) & Jaroslaw Brek (baritone), Ewa Marciniec (mezzo-soprano)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Antoni Wit
Antoni Wit and his players undoubtedly have the measure of this music, but it is the singing of the soprano Iwona Hossa that lends this disc its special distinction… superb value. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Choral Finalist
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Szymanowski, Bruckner & Schumann: A Choral Anthology
Elizabeth Robinson (soprano), Alfred Orda (baritone), Pamela Bowden (mezzo-soprano), Alexander Young (tenor), Forbes Robinson (bass), Kathleen Kay (contralto), Janet Fraser (soprano)
Royal Philharmonic Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, members, BBC...
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Szymanowski - Stabat Mater
Jadwiga Gadulanka (soprano), Andrzej Hiolski (baritone), Krystyna Szostek-Radkowa (contralto), Barbara Zogorzanka (soprano), Anna Malewicz Madej (alto), Roma Owsinska (soprano)
Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra, Katowice, Polish State Philharmonic Chorus (Katowice), Karol Stryja
their Stabat Mater blazes ecstatically — More…
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Paradisi gloria - Stabat Mater
Georgina von Benza (soprano), Violeta Urmana (mezzo-soprano), Iris Vermillion (mezzo soprano), Birgit Remmert (alto), Fabio Previati (baritone)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus, Munich Radio Orchestra, Marcello Viotti (conductor), Krzysztof Penderecki (conductor), Helmuth Rilling (conductor)
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Leopold Stokowski in Poland
Leopold Stokowski (vocalist), Alina Bolechowska (soloist), Krystyna Szczepańska (soloist), Andrzej Hiolski (soloist)
Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Pomorskiej, Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Narodowej, Chór Filharmonii Narodowej, Roman Kuklewicz, Leopold Stokowski
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