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Blu-Ray Video, Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
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Special offer. Prokofiev: The Gambler, Op. 24
Misha Didyk (Alexei), Kristine Opolais (Polina), Vladimir Ognovenko (General), Stefania Toczyska (Babulenka), Stephan Rügamer (The Marquis), Sylvia de la Muela (Blanche), Viktor Rud (Mr Astley)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) & Dmitri Tcherniakov (stage director)
Barenboim's crystal-clear pacing of the score is hard-hitting rather than quicksilvery, but the payoff in the last Act is terrific, and the blue-lit look of it all - Tcherniakov designed it,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - DVD Performance
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, DVD of the Month
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Opera, July 2010, Recording of the Month
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Live recording from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2013
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Mikhail Petrenko (Hagen), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Gerd Grochowski (Gunther), Waltraud Meier (Waltraute/Zweite Norn); Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim, Guy Cassiers
Its greatest asset is Daniel Barenboim's conducting, less vigorous perhaps than his Bayreuth cycle but generally more fluent and sweeping, with fewer abrupt tempo changes, and the La Scala orchestra... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Andreas Schager (Tristan), Anja Kampe (Isolde), Ekaterina Gubanova (Brangäne), Boaz Daniel (Kurwenal), Stephen Milling (King Marke), Stephan Rügamer (Melot)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, Dmitri Tcherniakov
[Barenboim's] contribution is masterly, especially in terms of the impeccable balance and refinement of the orchestral playing and the steady momentum of his finely shaped interpretation, which... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2022, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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What really gives these performances weight, in the best sense, is Barenboim’s marvellous sense of the long line – the kind of incredible long-breathed phrasing that, in his hands, can make... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Plácido Domingo (Simon Boccanegra), Anja Harteros (Amelia Grimaldi (Maria)), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Jacopo Fiesco) & Fabio Sartori (Gabriele Adorno)
Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) & Federico Tiezzi (stage director)
Some signs of vocal wear ([Domingo] was 69 at the time) could be seen as fitting the character; in fact they're surprisingly few and far between...The finest vocal contribution comes from soprano... —
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The work, the conductor, the orchestra are all shown in the best light. It is the kind of experience that has you sitting afterwards, for a long time, wondering at the greatness of what you... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, Orchestral Choice
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The performance is grand without being portentous, impassioned but never febrile, and is distinguished by a poised musicianship in the finest classical tradition. The DVD filming, like the playing,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, Orchestral Choice
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a reading entirely without frills or artificial drama: as well as its innate Romanticism Barenboim allows the underlying elemental nature of the music to emerge, and at times seems almost to... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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Schumann: Szenen aus Goethe's Faust
Roman Trekel (Faust/Doctor Marianus), Elsa Dreisig (Gretchen/Una Poenitentium), René Pape (Mephistopheles/Evil Spirit/ Pater Profundus), Katharina Kammerloher (Marthe/Sorge/Mater Gloriosa)
Staatsopernchor, Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
René Pape (Wotan), Stephan Rügamer (Loge), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Doris Soffel (Fricka), Kwangchul Youn (Fasolt), Timo Riihonen (Fafner), Anna Samuil (Freia), Anna Larsson (Erda), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Mime)
Teatro alla Scala, Dancers of the Eastman Ballet Company Antwerp,...
