Benjamin Bruns
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JS Bach: St Matthew Passion
RecommendedBenjamin Bruns (Evangelist), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Aki Matsui (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Clint van der Linde (baritone), Makato Sakurada (tenor), Zachary Wilder (tenor), Christian Immler (baritone), Toru Kaku (bass), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
It’s fascinating how much his two recordings have in common…what principally differentiates the two sets are the solo singers…Benjamin Bruns’s Evangelist and Christian Immler’s Christus are... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Choral
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Building a Library, October 2022, Recommended Recording
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Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten
Stephen Gould (Der Kaiser), Camilla Nylund (Die Kaiserin), Wolfgang Koch (Barak, der Farber), Nina Stemme (Die Farberin), Evelyn Herlitzius (Die Amme), Sebastian Holecek (Geisterbote)
Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann
Stemme is focussed and expressive, and if Koch sometimes seems underpowered, that is only through comparison to her. Herlitzius is similarly impressive, and she and Stemme are sufficiently distinct... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Opera
3 CDs
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
Michael Volle (Wotan), Tomasz Konieczny (Alberich), Burkhard Ulrich (Loge), Elisabeth Kulman (Fricka), Herwig Pecoraro (Mime), Peter Rose (Fasolt), Eric Halfvarson (Fafner), Annette Dasch (Freia), Janina Baechle (Erda), Christian van Horn (Donner), Benjamin Bruns (Froh), Mirella Hagen (Woglinde),...
His conducting is fast, as Wagner preferred and intensely dynamic but he avoids Boulez's glibness, illuminating the drama of the moment in a mercurial, almost Solti-like fashion...he seems to... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Opera
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Alexander Zemlinsky: A Florentine Tragedy
Christopher Maltman (Simone), Rachael Wilson (Bianca), Benjamin Bruns (Guido), Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Patrick Hahn
the Munich cast [is] led by a central performance of hugely impressive, granitic authority from Christopher Maltman, underlining the remarkable recent transformation to fully fledged dramatic... — More…
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Strauss, R: Salome
Emily Magee (Salome), Wolfgang Koch (Jochanaan), Michaela Schuster (Herodias), Peter Bronder (Herodes), Benjamin Bruns (Narraboth)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Andres Orozco-Estrada
What we gain here in exemplary clarity of Strauss’s sonic spider-web we lose in momentum for, say, the climactic welter which ends in Jokanaan’s curse…Magee as the spoiled princess propels the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Opera
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Building a Library, December 2022, Recommended Recording - Beethoven 9
5 CDs + 1 Blu-ray Audio + 1 Blu-ray Video
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Special offer. Haydn: Missa Cellensis
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, Justin Doyle
Altogether, there is much to discover in this little-known work, and the conductor Justin Doyle with his talented team of soloists and the RIAS Chamber Choice and Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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The Secret Fauré: Orchestral Songs & Suites
Benjamin Bruns (tenor), Sinfonieorchester Basel, Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, Olga Peretyatko (soprano)
Ivor Bolton
With the Basel Symphony on fine form, Bolton teases out Faure’s textural and emotional subtleties with great care, scrupulously judging both the delicate wit of Shylock and the altogether loftier... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2018
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Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos
Johan Botha (Bacchus), Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Daniela Fally (Zerbinetta), Sophie Koch (Komponist)
Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann
The set’s chief glory is arguably the playing of the musicians of the State Opera Orchestra: every solo line is exquisitely crafted and beautifully integrated, for which Thielemann must of course... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Coming soon. Andrew Lloyd Webber: Requiem, Barber: Adagio
Soraya Mafi, Benjamin Bruns, Florian Markus, Henrik Brandstetter, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Patrick Hahn
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