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Nino Rota: Il Cappello Di Paglia Di Firenze (The Florentine Straw Hat)
Chor der Oper Graz, Bernhard Schneider, Grazer Philharmoniker, Piotr Buszewski, Tetiana Miyus, Daeho Kim, Anna Brull, Ivan Oreščanin, Antonia Cosmina Stancu, Dariusz Perczak, Martin Fournier, Mario Lerchenberger, Richard Friedemann Jähnig, Silvija Pleše, Veli-Pekka Varpula, Julian Gaudiano, Daniele...
Though the plot is featherlight, Rota’s score, influenced by Poulenc and (much further back) Rossini, is delightful, a box of clever musical ideas...Light tenor Piotr Buszewski leads as the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Zemlinsky: Eine Florentinische Tragödie Op. 16
Heidi Brunner (Bianca), Wolfgang Koch (Simone) & Charles Reid (Guido Bardi)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bertrand De Billy
The vitality of Bertrand de Billy’s conducting and the richness of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra’s playing in this 2010 concert recording are both extremely compelling. Wolfgang Koch provides... — More…
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Record Review, 17th February 2018, Recording of the Week
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Opera, April 2018, Recording of the Month
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Schulhoff: Flammen (Flames)
Raymond Very (Don Jun), Iris Vermillion (La Morte), Arnold Schoenberg Chor, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bertrand De Billy
Bertrand de Billy is in his element, whether it’s on the dance f loor, ushering in the Dies Irae or leading a battery of orgasmic bells. Raymond Very is a handsome Don Juan, at his best in the... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Weber: Euryanthe
Stefan Cerny, Norman Reinhardt, Jacquelyn Wagner, Andrew Foster-Williams
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Constantin Trinks
The Arnold Schoenberg Choir is excellent: precise and accurate, the women sweet-toned, the men full and solid. Jacquelyn Wagner is an appealing, fresh-voiced Euryanthe; not as smooth or elegant... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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The new recording comes from concert performances at least year’s Salzburg Festival celebrating the composer’s centenary. It’s led with great gusto and accuracy by one of his leading pupils…The... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, Summer Issue 2019
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A too-easy consensus remains that the gold is suffused with corn, but while one is listening to these operas and songs, one is carried away by the gorgeous, dramatic music. Upon opening this... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes and other works
Martin Rummel (cello)
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Karl-Heinz Steffens
The finest playing is by the finest material: In the Fen Country confirms its standing as the first Vaughan Williams’s quiet masterworks, here graced with beautifully sure solo and ensemble... — More…
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Suite from Lady Macbeth
Vladimir Spivakov (violin)
Cologne Gurzenich Orchestra, James Conlon
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Marschner, H A: Der Vampyr
Jonas Kaufmann, Franz Hawlata, Regina Klepper & Thomas Dewald
WDR Rundfunkorchester Koln, Helmuth Froschauer
Kaufmann sings the hero to Hawlata's villain in this enjoyable account of Marschner's 1828 Gothic thriller, a work that influenced Wagner and which can still send a shiver down the spine. — More…
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