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Acclaim

  • Michael Tumeltyhttp://tinyurl.com/c2se959

    Their fluid and unshakeable accompaniment of Kozhukhin in Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto, with Runnicles at his most supple, was infinitely responsive in its integrity of ensemble. How they do that is beyond analysis. The power and passion with which they played for Runnicles in his blindingly committed view of Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem (the view [...]

  • Robert Levine: Classics Todayhttp://tinyurl.com/cmyhysu

    Kaufmann and the marvelous Donald Runnicles, who leads sympathetically and very much in keeping with his tenor’s strengths and feelings throughout the recital, do not linger morbidly or unnecessarily over each song; nor are they rushed. Runnicles allows the freshness of Kaufmann’s soft singing to take center stage (listen to “Traume”—it’s gorgeously dreamy) and he [...]

  • Michael Tumelty; The Heraldhttp://tinyurl.comclu79jd

    …..I know none who understand better the principle and practice of momentum in music than Donald Runnicles.  It characterised and propelled the SSO’s performance of Metamorphosen, which was never a funeral march and never a dirge, but a restless, seething canvas of counterpoint, whose complex textures moved ever-forward, illuminated by Runnicle’s mastery of momentum in [...]

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