Latest News: Classical, Jonas Kaufmann (Tenor)
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Recording of the Week,
Antonio Pappano conducts Puccini's Turandot 10th March 2023Sondra Radvanovsky and Jonas Kaufmann lead a stellar cast in a sumptuous account from Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Puccini's final opera.
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Recording of the Week,
Liszt from Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch 17th September 2021The long-term Lieder partners are absolutely in their element on a recital which delivers both drama and delicacy in spades.
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Recording of the Week,
Korngold's Die tote Stadt from Munich 23rd July 2021Jonas Kaufmann and Marlis Petersen both thrive under the camera's close scrutiny in Korngold's early opera about a volatile widower who attempts to refashion a new love-interest in his late wife's image.
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Recording of the Week,
Jonas Kaufmann & Helmut Deutsch: Selige Stunde 11th September 2020Recorded 'in private quarters' during lockdown, the German tenor and pianist's recital of songs by Schubert, Strauss, Grieg, Zemlinsky, Mahler and others is a 'blessed hour' indeed.
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Recording of the Week,
Jonas Kaufmann in Vienna 11th October 2019The German tenor sings the praises of the Austrian capital in a sumptuously-performed collection of operetta favourites and popular songs with a sting in its tail.
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Recording of the Week,
Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch from Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau and Helmut Deutsch 11th January 2019The German tenor, soprano and pianist have a ball with Wolf's 46 miniatures on love, loss and fickleness, recorded live in concert in Essen last year.
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Recording of the Week,
Otello from the Royal Opera House, starring Jonas Kaufmann 11th May 2018The German tenor sings his first 'Lion of Venice' in Keith Warner's 2017 production, opposite Marco Vratogna and Maria Agresta.
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Recording of the Week,
Jonas Kaufmann sings French operatic arias 15th September 2017Katherine enjoys the star tenor's collection of French gems, with the Bayerisches Staatsorchester and Bertrand de Billy.
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Recording of the Week,
Jonas Kaufmann takes on Das Lied von der Erde - all of it! 7th April 2017Katherine listens to the great German tenor's ambitious project - the whole of Mahler's mighty orchestral song-cycle.
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Recording of the Week,
Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci featuring Jonas Kaufmann 18th March 2016Katherine enjoys a double helping of the world's top tenor as Canio and Turiddu.
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Recording of the Week,
Jonas Kaufmann sings Puccini 11th September 2015Katherine enjoys the star tenor's hotly-awaited collection of Puccini arias, including - of course - the immortal Nessun Dorma.
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Recording of the Week,
Jonas Kaufmann sings popular German music from the 1920s and 30s 15th September 2014Katherine listens to German tenor Jonas Kaufmann's latest release, an enchanting collection of German operetta and light music numbers.
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Recording of the Week,
Jonas Kaufmann sings Wagner’s Parsifal 17th February 2014The German tenor gives the performance of his career as Wagner’s ‘Holy Fool’ in François Girard’s production from the Metropolitan Opera, with René Pape as Gurnemanz and Katarina Dalayman as Kundry.
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Recording of the Week,
Wagner from Jonas Kaufmann and others 11th February 2013Gergiev conducts an electrifying Walküre starring René Pape as Wotan, Nina Stemme as his rebel daughter, and Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Kampe as the Walsung Twins; Kaufmann’s solo album of opera scenes and the Wesendock-Lieder, meanwhile, is the best thing he’s ever done.
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Recording of the Week,
Carmen from Berlin with Kaufmann and Kožená 20th August 2012The light-voiced Czech mezzo and heavyweight German tenor are an appropriately chalk-and-cheese pairing as the free-spirited gypsy and her obsessive soldier lover, with Kožená’s husband Simon Rattle conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker in a performance which emphasises the score’s opéra comique pedigree.
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Recording of the Week,
Beethoven’s Fidelio from Abbado and Kaufmann 20th June 2011The German tenor is mesmerising from his very first note, whilst Nina Stemme is scarcely less compelling as his heroic wife Leonore in this exhilarating live concert recording from last year’s Lucerne Festival.
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Recording of the Week,
Jonas Kaufmann: Verismo Arias 27th September 2010The star tenor branches out from his usual French and German repertoire with an idiomatically Italianate recital of arias by Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano, Cilea and Boito, accompanied by Antonio Pappano and his Roman orchestra.
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Recording of the Week,
Angela Gheorghiu in Puccini's Madama Butterfly 2nd March 2009The Romanian soprano assumes the role of the tragic teenage geisha for the first time, with Jonas Kaufmann as the American naval officer who abandons her, and Antonio Pappano conducting.