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Choral, Mahler (composer)
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3
RecommendedGerhild Romberger (mezzo-soprano)
Augsburger Domsingknaben, Frauenchor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernard Haitink
a perfect beauty of a performance, natural sound matching natural evoution and every solo perfectly intoned — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th January 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Winner - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Recording of the Year
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Record Review, 7th January 2017, Recording of the Week
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Special offer. Mahler: The Complete Symphonies
RecommendedArleen Augér (soprano - Symphony No. 2), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo -Symphony No. 2), Birgit Remmert (contralto - Symphony No. 3), Amanda Roocroft (soprano - Symphony No. 4), Christine Brewer (soprano), Soile Isokoski (soprano), Juliane Banse (mezzo-soprano), Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano), Jane Henschel...
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Engineering
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Orchestral
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Recording of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building A Library, April 2022, Recommended Recording
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New. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor. 'Resurrection'
RecommendedMasabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Hallé Orchestra, Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir, Kahchun Wong
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Berio: Sinfonia & Berio/Mahler: Frühe Lieder
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Synergy Vocals, Josep Pons
We have only to listen to [Berio’s] exquisite song orchestrations, graced with Goerne on riveting, vibrant form, to feel the depth of his empathy, an almost palpable longing to be absorbed into... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th September 2016
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Vocal Winner
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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It’s the breadth – not just of repertoire but of sound, technique and approach – that makes it so arrestingly excellent… The musicianship here is dazzling, and nowhere more so than in Britten’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedKate Royal (soprano), Magdalena Kožená (mezzo)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle
the post-holocaust enchantments are magically coloured. For anyone who cares about this symphony Rattle's new recording is essential listening, if not necessarily a first port of call...[he]... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th February 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2011, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3
RecommendedGerhild Romberger (alto)
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Cantemus Children's Choir, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Iván Fischer
As vivid a performance as one would expect. That stylishly lazy trombone, a dying monster, is emblematic of the characteristic licence the conductor gives to his splendid Budapest players…the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Record Review, 20th May 2017, Recording of the Week
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Audiophile Multi-Track Recording of the Year
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Forbidden, yet seldom forbidding, Appl’s exquisitely cultivated fruits are ripe for plucking, and deserve to be consumed with unalloyed relish! — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
RecommendedHeather Harper, Lucia Popp, Arleen Auger (sopranos), Yvonne Minton (mezzo), Helen Watts (contralto), Rene Kollo (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Martti Talvela (bass)
Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Singverein, Wiener Sängerknaben & Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
Now at last Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand can be heard on record at something approaching its full, expansive stature. Here is a version from Solti which ... conveys the feeling of a great... — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Grammy Awards, 15th Awards (1972), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 15th Awards (1972), Classical Album of the Year
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedLisa Milne (soprano) & Birgit Remmert (alto)
Budapest Festival Orchestra & The Hungarian Radio Choir, Iván Fischer
…Fischer… rarely pushes too hard. The orchestral sound is lean but not undernourished, allowing for even balance between contesting lines - outstanding in the funereal coda of the first movement... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Editor's Choice
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