Lyrical soprano Christiane Karg confronts master poets in this gripping encounter. She shines in John Adams’ arrangement of Debussy’s Le Livre de Baudelaire, whose “Le balcon” sparkles with kaleidoscopic colours under the baton of David Afkham. Her masterful lines are the foundation around which the orchestra’s beautiful fantasies bloom.
- RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, En Shao & Kevin Robert Orr
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Dame Sarah Connolly & Toby Spence
- Christian Gerhaher, Daniel Harding & Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Peter Pears, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten
- Matthias Goerne, The Synergy Vocals, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Josep Pons
- Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Vera Soukupova, Czech Choir Prague, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Kim Borg, Evelyn Lear, Ivo Zidek, Stefania Woytowicz, Václav Smetáček & Ernst Haefliger
- George Benjamin, London Sinfonietta & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra