Pelléas et Melisande
Arnold Schönberg
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AllMusic
2011
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Stephen Eddins
2011
"Perséphone remains one of Stravinsky's most obscure works ... The musicality and sheer visceral drama of this performance probably make it the best recorded introduction to this rarity. It should be of special interest to the composer's fan's who don't know the piece or have had lukewarm reactions to other recorded versions".
The guardian
d. 16. Aug. 2018
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Andrew Clements (musikanmelder)
d. 16. Aug. 2018
"Classical album of the week: As Esa-Pekka Salonen's beautifully modulated performance demonstrates, [the work's] inconsistencies do not matter at all when the music is unfolded with such meticulous attention to detail. Nothing is forced, and all the elements, sung, played and spoken, are integrated so carefully ... There are moments when the sound of the orchestra seems recessed slightly too far behind the voices, but every morsel of detail in the scoring, which uses a large orchestra with chamber music-like fastidiousness, is there, and glowing".
Presto classical
d. 2. Sep. 2018
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Katherine Cooper
d. 2. Sep. 2018
"Editor's choices - August 2018: Sensuous, vulnerable and imperious by turns, the young French actress Pauline Cheviller is absolutely riveting as the eponymous queen of the underworld (a spoken role in Stravinsky's 1934 ballet), with tenor Andrew Staples incisive and urgent as the narrator Eumolphe. Salonen presides over a taut, edge-of-the-seat performance, with some stand-out woodwind work as Perséphone descends to Hades".
MusicWeb international
2018 October
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Terry Barfoot
2018 October
"The reasons that Perséphone has remained relatively little known are not hard to understand ... The score requires an unusual and demanding array of forces, making rehearsal scheduling difficult, and it is a curious amalgam of ballet and cantata which in the end make it succeed best in concert performance. That is what this recording presents ... Salonen conducts this performance with complete authority, so that the ebb and flow of the music always sounds entirely right while fully integrated into a longer term vision. The balancing of the forces is successfully achieved in the live recording ... This live recording from Pentatone has abundant atmosphere and the Helsinki audience is impeccably behaved throughout".
Fono Forum
2011 Juni
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Werner Pfister
2011 Juni
"Chöre und Orchester halten unter Dean Dixons souveräner Leitung derart engagiert mit, dass man hier einmal mehr staunt, auf welch hohem Niveau die Rundfrunkanstalten damals ihren kulturellen Bildungsauftrag ernst nahmen".
Klassisk
2018, nr. 51
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Esben Tange (f. 1962)
2018, nr. 51
"Helt i tråd med den antikke tradition er korene folkets stemme, der beretter og lever med undervejs ... Arier og gode melodier er en mangelvare. Til gengæld lykkes det den unge franske skuespiller Pauline Cheviller at gøre fremstillingen af Persefone nærværende ... Og med Esa-Pekka Salonen er dette album begavet med en dirigent, der i udpræget grad har sans for at få denne oversete musik til at leve".
Diapason
2019 février
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Rémy Louis
2019 février
BBC music magazine
2018 December
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Terry Blain
2018 December
"Avoiding staginess in the spoken narration is a key ingredient of any successful Perséphone ... and Pauline Cheviller does well in that respect ... There's sensuality and wonder ... but they are not over-larded ... Knitting the various strands together is conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, who ensures a pleasing uniformity of style among the performers ... Salonen it the defining influence on this excellent recording. It has no weak links, and captures evocatively the elusive, mythopoetic atmosphere of this still neglected piece".
The gramophone
2018 October
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Tim Ashley
2018 October
"Editor's choice: Orchestral textures are clean yet sensuous, rhythms exactingly precise ... In lesser hands, the score can seem episodic. Salonen, however, forges it into a unified drama, in which not a note or word seems wasted ... The choral singing is warm and focused ... Cheviller, meanwhile, plays the title-role with great sincerity ... This is an exceptional achievement, and the best recording of Perséphone that I know".