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DG signs Elina Garanca and Vadim Repin |
April 12 2006 |
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Deutsche Grammophon has signed up two leading young artists this month: violinist Vadim Repin and mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca.
 | | Elina Garanca signs to DG (photo: Simon Fowler/Virgin classics) |
DG is keeping plans close to its chest: for Garanca the label reveals only that her first solo recording, to be with the Dresden Staatskapelle, will be released in early 2007; for Repin that the deal will initially focus on ‘the great concerto repertoire’.
Repin has already appeared on DG, on a disc of Taneyev chamber music alongside Mikhail Pletnev and Ilya Gringolts (9/05); he has also made a number of recordings for Erato. Born in Novosibirsk, in 1989 Repin became the youngest winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels; since then he has performed with most of the world’s major orchestras and a list of premier conductors including Valery Gergiev, Sir Simon Rattle, Mstislav Rostropovich and Michael Tilson Thomas.
Latvian-born Elina Garanca previously recorded for Virgin Classics. Her disc of Mozart arias for the label earned an Editor’s Choice in the May issue of The Gramophone, as had Vivaldi’s Bajazet 12 months earlier, on which she sang. Recent stage successes have included Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) in February and Sesto (La clemenza di Tito) in March, both in Vienna. She too has appeared on DG already, having made a guest appearance on soprano Anna Netrebko’s 2005 ‘Opera Arias’ disc.
Martin Cullingford, Gramophone |
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